Why You Need to Love Yourself and When You Need to Change Your Friends, Job and Life
Recently, I returned home from Asia on a horrible airline ticket that made four separate connections before it finally arrived in Los Angeles. On my trip, I had the occasion to sit next to a series of businessmen also travelling...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentThe Importance of and How to Find a Mentor
Whenever I am asked what is the missing link between a promising businessperson and a successful one, mentoring comes to mind. Giving people advice on how they can best achieve their goals is something that is often overlooked. –Richard Branson...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentImitation, Our Parents, and Transference
Several years ago, I was at dinner with a man and his wife, both of whom used to work for an advertising company that did business with Ralph Lauren. Since Lauren was their main account, they had spent years getting...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 3 CommentsMake Sure Your Life and Dreams Are Your Own
When I was around 10 years old, my mother had a college friend, who brought over her son (who was my age) and he thought it would be amusing to take some of my mother’s lipstick and put it on. ...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentMental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women
Arnold Bennett's Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women is a lighthearted, yet thought-provoking collection of articles that describe mental efficiency as a state of mind. It is a road map that you need to follow in order...
Filed under Self Improvement Books 3 CommentsThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
One of the most inspiring people in American history is Benjamin Franklin. Something that very few people realize is that Franklin also wrote what is arguably one of the best self-improvement books ever written, The Biography of Benjamin Franklin. Here, Franklin tells his...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 4 CommentsHarmonize with the People in Your Environment
One of the most unusual candidates I ever worked with back when I was a job recruiter was someone who had basically worked for five different law firms in a five-year period. He had absolutely stellar credentials, having attended the...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 4 CommentsThe Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer Kahlil Gibran, in his book The Madman, presents a thought-provoking collection of short parables and poems ranging in length from a single paragraph to a few pages. With a touch of class that...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 6 CommentsHow to Attract Success is a book I know you will enjoy greatly. Here, Sears introduces the concept of the Law of Harmonious Attraction. Under this law, things come to us in the world not because we want them to...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement BooksYour Ability to Be Free Will Determine Your Success
A crucial part of your future success and happiness is having the ability to be free. The concept of freedom is difficult for most people to truly understand because hardly anyone is really free, in the deepest sense of the...
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