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Are You More Interested in the Intangible or the Tangible?
Several years ago, I started a business called Law Firm Staff, which is a staffing business for attorneys, paralegals, and so forth. Because it was a relatively new business and I had hired a manager, I felt that it was extremely important that the business...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 9 CommentsSeveral years ago, I was on the island of Kauai in a very small, out-of-the-way restaurant with my wife. We had driven to one of the more remote areas of the island far away from the resort where we were staying. Seated at a table not too far from...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentYou 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 CommentAre You Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic?
You have probably heard before that people tend to be visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. In my experience, this is true and it is something you can generally pick up on within just a few minutes of meeting the average person. Understanding whether or not...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 2 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. Then he started putting some sort of mascara (or something...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentSeven 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 CommentsThe Quality of Your Life and Career Is the Result of Your Habits
Every year on my birthday I receive phone calls and e-mails from various people. Many of the people I do not know very well, but they have been sending me birthday wishes each year for as long as I can remember. Some of them are distant relatives and...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 15 CommentsOne of the greatest causes of failure stems from people experiencing success in their careers. Whether it is being given a new title, a raise, a position of increased job security, or other success, people often suddenly decide they have earned the right...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 12 CommentsThe Focus of the Group You Are in Determines the Kind of Person You Become
When I was around 7 years old, an international touring group of forty or so young singers and dancers called “Up with People” came to my Detroit elementary school. The group put on a spellbinding show that mesmerized me. I went to a relatively...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 4 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...
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