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You Need to Have Desire to Achieve Your Goals
In order for you to achieve the things you are capable of, you need to constantly be creating goals for yourself and create a massive desire deep down to achieve these goals. There is nothing more important than having a desire deep down to achieve goals....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 12 CommentsOne of the Most Significant Lessons I Have Ever Learned about Work
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor. -Normal Vincent...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 3 CommentsI am about to provide you some of the strangest job search and career advice you will ever receive from someone who’s in the recruiting industry. One thing you should know about me is that I’m a straight shooter. If I see a pattern repeat itself...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts 13 CommentsEvery day when I sit down to work in the morning and turn on my computer, I receive several emails and comments about the companies I run and about me personally. Some people write to tell me I’m the stupidest person they’ve ever encountered. Other...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed, Life Lessons 15 CommentsNever Focus on the Money: Focus on Your Higher Purpose and Contribution
People fail far too often in the working world because they focus too much on the money they earn at their jobs. The money you are paid is generally commensurate with your contribution to something more important, more meaningful, and much larger than...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts 27 CommentsPlay Each Day Like It Is Your Most Important
Most people never do their work the best way they can. To be successful you need to make every single day at work, every single interview, and every single job you apply for the most important one ever. I want to propose to you a relationship with your...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 3 CommentsChoose Your Frames of Reference Wisely
I spent the summer following my first year of law school working at the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) in Washington, DC. The entire summer and the events leading up to it resulted in one of the strangest experiences I have ever had. After...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 22 CommentsUpgrade Your Career and Life by Finding Work to Be Done
Several years ago, I decided I didn’t want to work in a law firm anymore. The problem was that I didn’t know what else I could do besides practice law. Also, I didn’t have any money. In order to continue to make a living, I needed to...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 4 CommentsDo Not Ever Be Afraid to Broadcast Your Value
One of my favorite quotes is by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote: “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” A similar quote is this: “Build a better mousetrap, fail to advertise it or let people know about...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 3 CommentsLearn Something from the Upper and Lower Class: Do Not Be Paralyzed by Others’ Opinions
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort; who, if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone...
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