The Inner Voices, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Your Life
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When you consider all that you are capable of achieving, nothing is more exciting than imagining who and what you can and will become in your life. To do this, you must first learn to ignore that voice inside your head that may tell you otherwise. You have the ability to become happier. You have the ability to become more successful. You have the ability to become healthier. You have the ability to become a better friend. You have the ability to become a better wife or husband. You have the ability to learn new things. You have the ability to get a better job. You have the ability to get a raise. You have the ability to live where you want. You have the ability to work how you want. You have the ability to do what you want for a living. You have the ability to pursue the hobbies you want. In fact, pretty much whatever you want out of life is yours for the taking.

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Avoid Sophisticated and Saturated Markets
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One of the biggest mistakes people make in their job searches is going after jobs in sophisticated markets.  A sophisticated and saturated market is one that’s populated by a lot of people like you—with your qualifications, background, and so forth. If you’re competing for a job in a sophisticated market, you’re going to be more harshly judged and more likely eliminated than if you’re looking in a less sophisticated market.  The most sophisticated markets will be the most concerned about things like Where you went to school Whom you know How “solid” your experience is How you distinguish yourself compared to others with similar qualifications

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The Importance of Productivity, Focus, and Measurement
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When I was in school, I would study at least a couple of hours each day in the library. While there, I noticed that the best students were always very focused. They were not distracted like poorer students were. A poor student looks around and looks up frequently. The poor students try to start conversations, make jokes, and laugh at things going on in the library. When I was studying with the best students, I could feel their energy and focus. They blocked out external stimuli and their study time was extremely productive. In fact, just about

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Seek the Experience and Knowledge of Others in Your Job Search
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Back in college there were men I knew who would always shadow other men at parties. The first man would typically spend his entire evening drinking and talking to a woman he met at the party. At some point he would have had too much to drink and would start losing his focus. At that point, the shadow would appear, talk to the girl and, oftentimes, end up going home with her. Since the woman was usually also a little drunk at this point, she was not processing if she liked the shadow as much, and she was discounting the

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Sympathy, Morale, and the Importance of Being Organized
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In every job I have ever had, I have been happy for the most part. When I was an attorney, for example, I liked many aspects of being an attorney. When I worked in the asphalt business, I loved many aspects of that business. Most people are able to find some level of enjoyment in every job that they do. What is interesting, though, is that in every job I ever had, there were always people around me who were more than happy to stop by my office and go out to lunch with me, just to give me the

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Job Market
The Dangers of Getting Jobs Through Friends
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. “Oh, I already have a friend there. I’ll just contact him.” In the job market, it’s one of the more common things we hear after informing a job seeker that a certain...

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Goal Setting
Stay on Track
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I have been interested in self improvement and the process of growing spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually for most of my life. For the most part I believe we are all interested, to some degree, in growing and getting better at everything we do. If you go to any bookstore, you will undoubtedly...

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Staying Positive
The Fear of Rejection and Your Career
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In the legal recruiting realm, a recruiter typically needs to introduce a candidate to more than one law firm in order to get the candidate an interview. You could have a candidate at the top of their class from Harvard Law School practicing at one of the ten largest firms in the United States and they...

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