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Instead of Seeking Praise, Seek Criticism
Several years ago, I had a girlfriend who would fly off the handle at the slightest criticism. It didn’t matter who was criticizing her. She would call people ugly, smelly, short–whatever attack she could muster in response to what she perceived...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 2 CommentsHarness the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Get a Job and Improve Your Career
I know of so many people who fail to get jobs and, ultimately, do not have good careers because they keep their minds cluttered with things that have nothing to do with their job search. I have wanted to write for some time about how to harness the subconscious...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 9 CommentsThe Dangers of Getting Jobs Through Friends and Family
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. –Tacitus (c. 55-120 A.D.) “Oh, I already have a friend there. I’ll just contact her.” In the legal recruiting realm, this...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 3 CommentsThe Importance of Your Sense of Self
Once, when I was around 17 years old, I was sitting in a car with a friend of mine, waiting for another group of kids. My friend was very wealthy and by this age had already inherited several million dollars–and he was very arrogant about this....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Staying Positive 23 CommentsUse Your Emotion Instead of Being a Critic
When I was an attorney, I stopped going out to lunch with other attorneys during the day. The reason was not that I was not hungry. Instead, I stopped going out to lunch because just about everyone I worked with would want to dedicate the lunch to a...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsYou Need to Condition Yourself to Make a Lasting Change
One Saturday evening around 10:00 p.m., I ran into one of my neighbors at the grocery store. We were both buying ice cream. My neighbor is a very well-known businessman and someone I have always looked up to from a distance. We started chatting and he...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentOrder and Disorder and Your Career
Every single person, place, or thing that you encounter follows these laws, which present and repeat themselves time and time again. In fact, both order and disorder are good things because they can be used to lead to great improvement in our personal...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 4 CommentsThe Importance of Asking the Right Questions, Self-Improvement, and Perception
There is a famous story that comes from Buddhism, about a mother who loses her child. The Buddha was known not only as an enlightened individual but also as someone with the ability to bring the dead back to life. One day a woman approaches the Buddha,...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 4 CommentsRun Your Career Based on Facts and Statistics – Not Opinions
One of the worst things you can possibly do is run your career based on the opinions of others. Other people are always going to have differing ideas about where you should work, how much you should work, what salary you should make–and various...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 2 CommentsRap Stars, House Managers, Crystal Meth, Prison, and Your Ego
Several years ago, I was on an airplane that sat on the tarmac for at least an hour due to a screaming rap star. Seated not far from me (in coach) was a very famous rap star, and he was furious. He was upset because he had been seated in coach and there...
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