Seize Every Opportunity That Comes Your Way

Around 5:30 p.m. one April day, I was walking down a hall in the University of Virginia Law School with a classmate. The school was pretty much abandoned, but we noticed a large meeting taking place in one of the classrooms. I didn’t know it then, but this meeting would be something that would permanently change the course of my life: -It would determine my first and second jobs after law school. -It would determine where I would live. -I would meet my wife because of it. -I would become the person I am today because of it. You see, opportunity is like that. It comes out of nowhere sometimes. You need to be ready for that opportunity, and to seize it when it comes. Taking [Read more]

Weight Loss, Security Guards, Hard Work and Your Career

In the Midwest, where I am from, many of the men and women there tend to start getting bigger and bigger, and wider and wider, when they hit their 30s.  I am not saying they all do, of course, but there is a definite trend there that I believe is much, much more “pronounced” than in other areas of the country. On the block where I grew up, a group of these women got together and decided to do something about it by exercising.  For hours each day, in a group of five or more, they would walk around [Read more]