Planning, Grass Seed, Saunas, and Your Career

We are always fixing things. Always. We are always doing everything within our power to fix this or that, and we are continually trying to improve things because nothing is ever perfect for us. However, one of the biggest explanations for this is that we often fail to plan and obtain more information before we act on anything. This puts us in a situation where we end up having to do some clean-up of sorts, or worse yet, all-out damage control. In contrast, the people who plan properly and who relentlessly seek out information seem to be the ones who do the best in everything.

• They spend less time fixing what they have already done.
• They do not worry about things breaking.
• They put their energy into new projects instead of old ones.
• There are fewer kinks along [Read more]

The Graduate, Andrew Carnegie, and Finding Positive Economic Currents

In the 1967 movie The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman plays a young, recent college graduate, Ben. At a party, Ben is congratulated by his family and their friends:

Guests: We’re all so proud of you, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud. What are you going to do now? Ben: I was going to go upstairs for a minute. Guests: I meant with your future, your life. Ben: Well, that’s a little hard to say.

In one of the most memorable lines in movie history, Ben receives advice from Mr. McGuire (played by Walter Brooke), a family friend:

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you – just one word. Ben: Yes sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben: Yes I am. Mr. McGuire: ‘Plastics.’ Ben: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? Ben: Yes I will. Mr. McGuire: Shh! Enough said. That’s a deal.

In an interesting twist, in real life McGuire’s advice would prove to be [Read more]

Immanuel Kant and What Good Hiring Managers Should Look For

Many people who make hiring decisions really do not know what they are doing. In fact, they often make mistake after mistake when hiring.

• They put too much emphasis on skills and experience.
• They are overly impressed with interviewing skills.
• They think in terms of who is going to work the hardest.

Are these sorts of things important? Of course they are. But the single most important aspect of hiring is evaluating the person’s unique outlook on the world. If the person does not have a positive outlook on the world, the following are likely to happen:

• The person will bring down the morale of the people they work with.
• The person will harm the company through their negative outlook.
• The person will abandon the job for something that looks better.

When people go into interviews, they [Read more]

Right and Wrong Thinking

Right and Wrong Thinking shows us that everything that happens around us is the result of our mind and how it works. You can make the most of yourself by using your mind in the correct manner. This is an excellent book that can help you understand how your mind both creates your potential and limits it. This book was first published in 1905 and has been republished numerous times. It is a book I am sure you too will enjoy and can learn from.

–Harrison

Right and Wrong Thinking

By Aaron Martin Crane

PREFACE

Some years ago this book was born into thought by the perception of its fundamental principle, and it has been growing ever since. During the intervening years this principle and its allied ideas have been presented more or less fully in the form of independent class lectures to many groups of persons. It is with hesitation that it is now offered to the public in its present form, because it is still growing; but having seen the great advantages which have come to many from the practice of its principles, [Read more]

The Milgram Experiment, Submission to Authority, Your Life, and Career

The world is, quite simply, a jungle. You have your strong species and your weak species. You have your strong people and your weak people. Strong people impose their will on the weak and make the weak act in ways that benefit the strong. In the animal kingdom, for example, the strong apes have access to the best mates, the most food, and the best lifestyle. The weaker apes fear them. The stronger apes are strong based on their ability to intimidate and impose their will on the weaker apes, their [Read more]

Induction, Deduction, and Your Career

When you look at the way something has been in the past to draw conclusions about the way something always will be, or always is, you are using inductive reasoning. A standard example of induction would be: All grass examined thus far is green. This leads us to conclude (using induction) that all future grass we see will be green and every piece of green grass we see in the future will strengthen this belief. For example, you likely believe that a flame will burn you if you touch it. Similarly, just about everyone believes that if [Read more]

Thought Power .. Its Control And Culture

Our minds have tremendous power and can do incredible tasks once we know how to activate its power. In Annie Bessant’s Thought Power … Its Control and Culture, you will learn how to train your mind, improve your thought power, strengthen your mind and more. This book is an easy read and one I think you will enjoy.

–Harrison

THOUGHT POWER .. ITS CONTROL AND CULTURE

By Annie Besant

FOREWORD

THIS little book is intended to help the student to study his own nature, so far as its intellectual part is concerned. If he masters the principles herein laid down, he will be in a fair way to cooperate with Nature in his own evolution, and to increase his mental stature far more rapidly than is possible while he remains ignorant of the conditions of his growth. The Introduction may offer some difficulties to the lay reader, and may perhaps be skipped by such at [Read more]

How to Find Government Jobs(Federal Government Jobs, State Government Jobs, County Government Jobs, and City Government Jobs)

One of the best sources of jobs out there is government jobs. There are so many sources of government jobs, it is astonishing. Most government jobs are poorly advertised or promoted and receive very few applications. Because they receive so few applications, they are much easier to get in most cases than private sector jobs. In addition, most people have no idea how to find government jobs because they are “hidden” on a variety of government websites that most people never check (or do not even know about). I am going to tell you how to find these “hidden” government jobs. No discussion of government jobs would be complete without me offering a few praises of them as well. Compared to the private sector, government jobs generally

• Have more employment security,
• Offer better healthcare [Read more]

How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals into Reality

How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals into Reality is a book that talks about putting efforts in idealizing your desires. I am sure you will enjoy discovering the process of understanding how to give form to your desires and how to make your ideals come true. Brown Landone takes the readers through the various steps of understanding how matter shapes your desire and how desire, in turn, affects your ideal. He also explains how idealized things make fortunes, and how to build a successful business through developing your inner efficiency.

The book goes on to speak about spiritual healing, preventing mistakes in thinking, and overcoming forgetfulness. It has a preface by Edgar H. Felix where light is thrown on Landone’s life and persona as seen by intimate friends. You will enjoy reading and experiencing the process of watching your desires turning into reality through this book.

–Harrison Barnes

HOW TO TURN YOUR DESIRES AND IDEALS INTO REALITY

By Brown Landone

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Mental Chemistry

Napolean Hill, the author of probably the greatest success self help book of all time, Think & Grow Rich, was massively influenced by Charles Haanel’s most famous work, The Master Key System. This is a transcription of a letter that Hill wrote to Haanel about The Master Key System:

April 21, 1919. Mr. Charles F. Haanel, St. Louis, Mo.

My dear Mr. Haanel:

You probably know, from the editorial in the January issue of the Golden Rule, copy of which my Secretary sent to you, that I began twenty-two years ago as a coal miner at a dollar a day.

I have just been retained by a ten million dollar corporation at a salary of $105,200.00 a year, for a portion of my time only, it having been agreed that I shall continue as editor of the Hill’s Golden Rule.

I believe in giving credit where it is due, therefore I believe I ought to inform you that my present success and the success which has followed my work as President of the Napoleon Hill Institute is due largely to the principles laid down in The Master-Key System.

You are doing a good work by helping people to realize that nothing is impossible of accomplishment which a man can create in his imagination. Surely my own experience proves this.

I shall cooperate with you in getting your course into the hands of the many who so greatly need your message.

Cordially and sincerely, Napoleon Hill, Editor, The Golden Rule Chicago, Illinois

Haanel’s work, Mental Chemistry, is another work that also builds upon the Master Key System and is an an important edition to your success library. I hope you enjoy it.

–Harrison

MENTAL CHEMISTRY

By Charles F. Haanel

MENTAL CHEMISTRY

Chemistry is the science which treats of the intra-atomic or the intra-molecular changes which material things undergo under various influences. Mental is defined as “of or appertaining to the mind, including intellect, [Read more]

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