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Visualize Where You Are Going: Think Big
Some time ago I saw a movie called The Secret. Afterward, I read the book, which essentially professes you need to visualize where you are going in order to get there. A famous book quoted in The Secret is Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Anthony...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 5 CommentsPlay the Game by Your Own Rules
We essentially have two choices in our lives. First, we can be average. We can let the people around us mold us, and we can let society marginalize us, as we follow its so-called norms. Alternatively, we can take a stand, choose not to play by the rules,...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 2 CommentsIf You Really Want Success, Go through Unpeopled Ground
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says, “To go one thousand lives without fear, go through unpeopled ground.” To me, this means when you go forward, you should move through open space that is undesired or uncontested. When you move in this way, your...
Filed under How to Succeed 4 CommentsGood Things Only Happen When You Are Moving
Probably the low point of my life was the summer I decided I needed to get ready for eleventh grade. Since I was young, I had been told that if I wanted to get into a good college, I would have to earn excellent grades in eleventh grade. My father had...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 3 CommentsCarpenters, Fancy French Restaurants, Backstage, and Your Career
One of my favorite stories is about a man who has a creak in his house. For years he has tried one way or another to fix the creak, but every single time he walks through the old house it still makes that annoying squeaky sound. No one has ever been able...
Filed under Staying Positive 8 CommentsExpose Yourself to Pain in Your Job Search
When I was growing up, I did not have any friends whose parents were attorneys. In fact, I did not really know any attorneys until I got to college. A girlfriend of mine at that time had a friend whose stepfather was an attorney. I met him during my senior...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 2 CommentsYou Must Produce and Do Quality Work
At Toyota’s headquarters in Tokyo, one of the most striking things you see when you first enter is a collection of three pictures. The first is of Toyota’s founder, the second is of Toyota’s chairman, and the third, which is much larger...
Filed under Advancement 5 CommentsDo Not Get Involved in the Social Side of the Office
Several years ago we had an employee at one of our companies who was extremely intelligent. This person was older and had worked at several jobs before coming to our company. Although he’d never excelled at any of these jobs, he’d done well enough....
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts 25 CommentsWe Create Problems So That We Can Grow and Be Happy
When I was 15 years old, my grandmother took me to a Honda motorcycle dealership one day and bought me a moped. I believe it was called an Aero 50. That was one of the greatest days of my life at the time because, for at least the previous few years,...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 2 CommentsBe Content and Happy with Where You Are
When I was about 16 years old, I purchased a book that was a translation of old Buddhist teachings and Zen tales. I lost track of this book long ago; however, much of its content was quite memorable. I remember one simple story in particular that had...
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