You Need to Enjoy What You Are Doing

One of the greatest lessons you can ever learn is that you should not be doing anything you do not enjoy.  In fact, your job and your entire life should be one big bowl of monkeys full of excitement and enjoyment.  You should enjoy getting up for your job each day.  You should like the work you do and be so interested in it you think about it at night.  You should like the people around you and you should never be doing anything you do not truly love and enjoy.  There is nothing wrong with suffering through certain classes [Read more]

Don’t Be Persuaded by Others Who Tell You How to Do Your Job Search

Several years ago, I was sitting at my desk when my secretary ran into my office. She told me the career services dean of a major American law school was on the telephone, demanding to speak with me, and that she was extremely angry. I took the call and the dean yelled at me for several minutes. She was angry about a letter I’d sent telling her I wanted to help her students with a service called Legal Authority, which assists law students and attorneys in getting jobs by doing mass mailings of their résumés to employers [Read more]

Good Things Only Happen When You Are Moving

Probably the low point of my life was the summer I decided I needed to get ready for eleventh grade. Since I was young, I had been told that if I wanted to get into a good college, I would have to earn excellent grades in eleventh grade. My father had gone to Harvard and had told me since the time I was old enough to understand about how he earned all As in his junior year of high school, and how this had helped him get into this great college. I intended to do the same. Some of the stress [Read more]

Play Each Day Like it is Your Most Important

Most people never do their work the best way they can. To be successful you need to make every single day at work, every single interview, and every single job you apply for the most important one ever. I want to propose to you a relationship with your work that is one of love, improvement, and embracing everything that you do. Embracing your work is the only way to continually move ahead and to stand out among all of the people out there who are also competing for the life that you want. [Read more]