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Setting Goals Is Their Attainment
Every year in January, I do all sorts of goal setting. I set goals for what I’m going to do over the next year. I do this in a lot of ways, but sometimes I dig out old tapes and CD programs I’ve accumulated throughout the years and listen...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Goal Setting 7 CommentsNever Stop Using Your Imagination
It is amazing what people are able to do with the power of their imaginations. Steve Jobs became incredibly famous by taking things that already existed and imagining and creating new uses for them. The changes he made by using his imagination made...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 19 CommentsYour Perceptions Will Control Your Outcome and Life
When I was in middle school, my girlfriend announced to me she was going to try out for the cheerleading squad. Our relationship consisted mainly of us riding our bikes to school together each day. Occasionally, I might call her after school. The cheerleading...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 10 CommentsThe Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
With the need to offer his teachings on the secrets of mental fascination to an American audience, Theron Dumont put together this popular book, The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism. The author instructs us how to exert a powerful irresistible influence...
Filed under Self Improvement Books 2 CommentsAnything That Is Not Managed Will Deteriorate
Managing your life is like managing a business. When you look at a typical business there are an incredible number of procedures in place to keep the business running. Take a McDonald’s, for example: Each day the restaurant opens at a certain...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 5 CommentsHow You Deal with Problems Will Determine the Quality of Your Life
One of the things I have learned over the years is anyone can be up when things are going well. However, the real challenge is when things are not going well. All businesses and all relationships go through problems, and how you deal with problems will...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 6 CommentsLove Your Work and the People Who Give It to You
From the time I was 19 until I was about 27, I spent a good portion of my summers doing asphalt work around Detroit. That included asphalt sealing, hot tar crack filling, and asphalt patching. It was seasonal work and most people in Michigan only seal...
Filed under Advancement 14 CommentsIncreasing Efficiency Is Your Best Route to Employment Security
The cheapening of any article in common use almost immediately results in a largely increased demand for that article. Take the case of shoes, for instance. The introduction of machinery for doing every element of the work which was formerly done by...
Filed under Featured, Keeping a Job 4 CommentsThe Importance of Sharing Ideas
When I was in law school, I went into the library one afternoon and took a seat at a desk across from a guy I knew quite well. We were not great friends but I had been over to his home a few times and he was a likeable guy in all respects. Both of us...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 12 CommentsFrederic Van Rensselaer Dey’s The Magic Story first appeared in 1990 and created an immediate sensation worldwide. The book is in two parts and the author has remarkably woven the fundamental principles of the ‘New Thought Movement’,...
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