Your Job is About the Transference Energy

A few years ago I was in India and was interested in going to see what is called ‘‘an energy healer’’. I was interested in this because I had been to several seminars where I had heard about people changing outcomes and healing others with energy by transferring energy from the universe. I went to see a Reiki energy healer and they did something called ‘‘balance my Chakras’’. This was an experience in itself, but the real knowledge I got out of energy and its place in our lives between people happened when I was sitting in the lobby waiting [Read more]

My Lesson From the Missionaries

Several years ago I was working at a law firm and virtually from the moment I arrived a woman I’ll call “Linda” used to come into my office for a few hours a day to talk. Her topic? How bad things were at the law firm. She would share one rumor after the other about how many bad things were going on at the law firm. I was treated to information about allegedly corrupt activities, affairs, who did not like who, incredible insights into who was about to be fired, what different people had said to her, [Read more]

Being Nice Makes Good Business Sense

Several years ago I was getting ready to interview with a law firm in New York. It was my first interview ever as a law student and I was pretty nervous. I was trying to get on an elevator as the door was closing and I saw a woman rushing towards it. I reached quickly for the button to open the elevator and was able to get the door to re-open at the last second. The woman got on and told me which floor to push, and I did this for her as well. The woman was very heavy and was not particularly well-dressed. We were going to a very high floor and there [Read more]

The Best Career Advice You Will Ever Receive

When I was around 14 years old, I moved out of my mother’s house and in with my father, his new wife, and her daughter in a different part of town. I would stay there for a few months, attend a different school, then move to Bangkok, Thailand, and attend school there. At this new school, immediately I learned that one of the most popular girls in the school liked me a lot. She started calling me and having her friends invite me to parties. She would come over with various gorgeous friends to watch television at [Read more]

Helpers and Non-Helpers

In the book All I Want is Everything, Marion Preminger discusses the viewpoint of her husband, a missionary doctor in Africa: “Albert Schweitzer says there are two kinds of people. There are helpers, and there are non-helpers. I thank God he allowed me to become a helper, and in helping, I found everything.” Preminger’s life is so instructive and inspirational because it discusses a woman who moved from being a non-helper to a helper, and how stunning this transformation was for her. In my experience, I would say the author is correct in saying that there really are two types of people in the world, helpers and non-helpers. Choosing to be a helper or a non-helper will have a major impact on the course of your life, no matter how much education you get, and no matter what sort of job you get. Life, in general, revolves around finding opportunity, making money, developing friendship, discovering love and moving towards those who help, and away from those who do not help. Whenever you look at the most successful and the happiest people out there, you will almost invariably find that these people are helpers, always making an effort to contribute and help others. In addition to doing this through physical actions, they also do this through their thoughts. They communicate and think positive messages about others. Being a helper is about more than just the things you do. It involves your intent, your spirit and where you are coming from, deep down. The deeper and more powerful your positive intent is, the more of a helper you will be. Conversely, the non-helpers are always more concerned about their immediate needs and what others can do for them. The non-helpers always make sure that their actions are calculated and that what they receive in return is more than what they put out. In addition, there [Read more]

Surround Yourself with Positive People

A few years ago I made friends with a guy I met at a self improvement seminar. It was his second time attending the seminar; apparently he had gotten incredible results the first time around. According to the guy, he had lost 50 pounds, had given up drinking and drugs, was cured of his ADD, stopped working 14 hours a day every day of the week, started exercising daily, dramatically improved his marriage and family life and started a successful new career–all after attending the seminar. He credited this massive and profound life turnaround to [Read more]