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Push Yourself Outside Your Comfort Zone
About ten years ago, an attorney who had been practicing about seven or eight years longer than me purchased his first house. I remember congratulating him on the purchase, and his response shocked me at the time: “I am very happy with the house. ...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 1 CommentBe Someone Who Is Engaged with Work, Not Someone Who Avoids Work
All around us there are people who have jobs, but who resent the fact that they have to be working. I understand this phenomenon because it is something I have witnessed throughout my career, amongst all sorts of people, in virtually every single industry....
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 8 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 CommentsFocus on Doing – and Stop Talking about Those Who Are Doing
Throughout my career I have learned that there are generally two types of people out there: First, there are those who are out there doing this or that and making things happen. These people typically put in years to perfect their craft, whether they...
Filed under Advancement, Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 8 CommentsConcentrate on the Positive, Not the Negative
The most successful people concentrate almost exclusively on the positive and not the negative. In fact, the negative hardly influences them at all. You need to see the world and the people in it as happy, prosperous, and good. Like attracts like. If...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 29 CommentsChoose Work That Fits Your Nature
For as long as I can remember, I have always sat in an office with someone else. For me, this is a useful way to work because various things come up throughout the day and as these issues come up, I want to ensure that I have someone to bounce ideas...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 9 CommentsCriticism, Your Career, and Your Life
Throughout your career, you will encounter a series of so-called friends, confidants, and others who will come up to you and let you in on various things that “people are saying about you.” I am not talking about the sort of people who are...
Filed under Featured, Life Lessons 9 CommentsSelf Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
Through his book, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion, Emile Coué talks about the force of incalculable power within us, which if we direct in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves. This force teaches us to escape and...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 2 CommentsAsk Yourself Empowering Questions
The power of the questions we ask ourselves determines the power we have in our lives. It’s estimated that approximately 60,000 thoughts cross our minds daily. It’s what we do with these thoughts that determines our level of happiness, success, and...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, Goal Setting, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 10 CommentsNow Is the Best Opportunity You Will Ever Have
Take a moment and look over your shoulder. What do you see? If you look closer, you will realize there is something quite sinister looming there: your own mortality. You are going to die. You might die today, next week, a year from now, or 75 years from...
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