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Scientific Advertising By Claude Hopkins
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins is one of my favorite books. It is a classic book and something that many people I know who are extremely successful have claimed as the source of their success. The book was the first popular book to talk about...
Filed under Self Improvement Books Leave a CommentHow to Attract Success is a book I know you will enjoy greatly. Here, Sears introduces the concept of the Law of Harmonious Attraction. Under this law, things come to us in the world not because we want them to and make them do so; but because they want...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books Comments Off on How to Attract SuccessYour Job Search and Future Prospects Will Be Determined by the Company You Keep
I have had the most unusual series of interviews over the past few weeks. Yesterday I interviewed a woman who came in smelling like alcohol–to such an extent that my eyes were watering. I asked her about her record and she told me that she had...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured 28 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 CommentThe Best Way to Prepare for a Job Search and Interviews
Several years ago when looking for a position in Los Angeles, I interviewed with numerous law firms. In virtually every one of these interviews I ran across an attorney who knew not one, not two, not three—but numerous, numerous attorneys in my...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job 6 CommentsOrder and Disorder and Your Career
Every single person, place, or thing that you encounter follows these laws, which present and repeat themselves time and time again. In fact, both order and disorder are good things because they can be used to lead to great improvement in our personal...
Filed under Featured, How to Succeed 4 CommentsHow Much Do You Want Your Dream?
I live on the beach in Malibu, California, on a cliff overlooking the ocean. I have a fairly large lot for the area and regularly rent out my house and lot for weddings, television shows, model shoots, and that sort of thing. I enjoy this. It is fun...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed Leave a CommentRap Stars, House Managers, Crystal Meth, Prison, and Your Ego
Several years ago, I was on an airplane that sat on the tarmac for at least an hour due to a screaming rap star. Seated not far from me (in coach) was a very famous rap star, and he was furious. He was upset because he had been seated in coach and there...
Filed under Employment Do’s and Don’ts, Featured, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 5 CommentsThe Most Valuable Work Is Work That Repeats Itself
When I was 18 years old, I once responded to an advertisement in the paper that stated a company looking for janitors was offering $15.00 an hour (which now would probably be the equivalent of at least $25.00 an hour). Back then, 20+ years ago, that...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, Keeping a Job 3 CommentsRun Your Career Based on Facts and Statistics – Not Opinions
One of the worst things you can possibly do is run your career based on the opinions of others. Other people are always going to have differing ideas about where you should work, how much you should work, what salary you should make–and various...
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