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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 CommentsYou Should Not Dabble: To Succeed It’s All or Nothing
My last helicopter lesson was on a Christmas morning several years ago. I’m very glad that I made that my last helicopter lesson. I’d shown up at the flight school around 6:00 am. The previous evening, I’d been out pretty late and was...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting, How to Succeed 8 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 CommentsWhy You Should Work Weekends and Holidays
I cannot tell you how many people have ruined their careers by having the wrong attitude when it comes to working weekends and holidays. Although you may consider your work just a job, if you send this message to your superiors, you will be in trouble...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 7 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,...
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