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Why 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 CommentsInduction, Deduction, and Your Career
When you look at the way something has been in the past to draw conclusions about the way something always will be, or always is, you are using inductive reasoning. A standard example of induction would be: All grass examined thus far is green. This...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World Leave a CommentThe Greater Your Purpose, the Greater the Obstacles You Will Face
Several years ago, I had a girlfriend who had an older sister who was nothing short of incredible. She was a world-class swimmer and had set countless records in the state. She had times in swimming that would easily have qualified her for the Olympics,...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 14 CommentsDo Not Be Influenced by Others’ Negative Opinions of You
I have kept a journal for years. Today I opened the journal and found a quote that I had written down on July 4, 2002. I had written this quote down because at the time I had just gotten out of a relationship in which the person I was with had decided...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 8 CommentsHow to Answer the “Do You Have Any Questions for Me?” Interview Question
Generally, at the end of an interview, the interviewer will ask something along the lines of, “Do you have any questions for us?” It is very important that you always ask questions in an interview when given the opportunity. Incredibly, the most...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 10 CommentsSeven Reasons People Never Have the Successful Careers They Are Capable of
A lawyer told me last night that most of the other attorneys she knows are looking to do something other than practice law. Lawyers are one of the most fascinating breeds of people I know. The ones who go to the top law schools and start in jobs with...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 7 CommentsOne of the most important things you can do in your career, business, and life is pay attention to details. With very few exceptions, the most successful people I have met always have an extraordinary ability to pay attention to even the smallest details....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 1 CommentMy Trip to the Playboy Mansion: The Importance of Challenging Convention
A couple of years ago, I received a telephone call from a friend of mine who is a pretty well known business motivational speaker, that he had gotten some tickets to a party at the Playboy Mansion. I figured that there was no way in hell my wife would...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 9 CommentsPicking Up Suicide Victims in a Shanghai River
I watched a chilling story on CNN yesterday about a man who has started a business driving his small motorboat up and down a river outside of Shanghai, finding and picking up suicide victims. He fishes the bodies out of the water (in various states of...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 5 CommentsAmong the many interrelated problems that can occur in an economy are people having not enough work, not enough holidays, not enough benefits, and of course, not enough pay. As disruptive and problematic as these issues may become to people, hands down,...
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