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I attended a private high school named Cranbrook-Kingswood. There was a lot of competition to get accepted. A couple of years before I started there, the founder of Little Caesar’s Pizza, Mike Ilitch, made a large donation to the school with instructions...
Filed under Featured, Goal Setting 20 CommentsConcentrate on the Process, Not the Results
Some time ago, I was listening to a seminar about a company that was in the furniture business. This company decided that because it was doing so well, it should expand into the piano business, and also sell pianos. They went out and purchased a Steinway...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 8 CommentsA long time ago, more than a decade back, I found myself standing on the side of the road, on a turnpike, somewhere on the East Coast of the United States. I had been dropped off on the side of this strange highway by a woman I was with, who, in a fit...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons Leave a CommentYour Job Is about the Transference Energy
A few years ago I was in India and was interested in going to see what is called “an energy healer”. I was interested in this because I had been to several seminars where I had heard about people changing outcomes and healing others with energy...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 9 CommentsCattle, the Importance of Maintaining Fences-and Your Career
When I was in law school, I lived on a cattle ranch in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ranch was over 550 acres, and the cows used to wander all through the property as large groups, eating grass, mooing, sleeping (standing up, as they do), having baby...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 13 CommentsOne of the most persistent mistakes people make is not fitting in with their work environments. Fitting in enables you to both get and keep a job. In terms of what it takes to succeed in the long term, fitting in may actually be more important than your...
Filed under Featured, Job Market, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 19 CommentsOf the nineteen books James Allen wrote, As a Man Thinketh is considered his most widely recognized classic self-help book. It is concise and eloquent, and it best embodies his idea that thought and character are one. This unrewarded literary mystery...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 7 CommentsThe Art of War by Sun Tzu is an excellent book that contains numerous powerful life and career lessons. It is considered one of the most successful books on military strategy ever written. The book recognizes that planning and strategy are influenced...
Filed under Self Improvement Books 4 CommentsHow to Live on 24 Hours a Day, first published in 1908, offers advice on how to live your life, rather than just existing in the world. Following the Industrial Revolution, a large number of white collar workers had emerged who in many cases were unhappy...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 2 CommentsSeize Every Opportunity That Comes Your Way
Around 5:30 p.m. one April day, I was walking down a hall in the University of Virginia Law School with a classmate. The school was pretty much abandoned, but we noticed a large meeting taking place in one of the classrooms. I didn’t know it then,...
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