“Live life with passion and pursue excellence in everything I do.” If you were to ask me what the purpose of life is for me, this is how I’d answer you. As you can see, the purpose of my life is NOT to achieve; but to pursue. The purpose of my life is NOT the goal itself, but the journey …
7 Tricks to Turn Disappointment into Success: Managing Setbacks while Looking for a Job
“For every success you experience in life, you must overcome 100 disappointments.” Jay Block You have to experience it if for your life to be worthwhile You must accept it as a necessary part of life You can’t avoid it You don’t have to fall in love with it The “it” I am referring to is disappointment. If you want …
Courage Can Be Learned: How You Can Develop (More) Courage
Courage is the most important characteristic for success, achievement, and happiness – Especially when looking for a job. Without courage – nothing of substance is possible. If desire is your wishbone, then courage is your backbone. Your backbone provides the sheer determination to achieve your desires – inclusive of fear, adversity, setbacks, pain, danger, hardship, and uncertainty. Harry Truman said, …
4 Questions an Effective Resume Answers in 15 Seconds
In today’s new job market, the old way of “job search” using outdated resumes simply doesn’t work. Think about it… when was the last time you bought something from a door-to-door salesman? It is time to stop knocking on doors, and giving them a copy of your “chronological obituary” (your old boring resume) and start a high impact, self-marketing job …
5 Tips for Mastering Consistency And Achieving Job Search Success
Mastering consistency is KEY to success – Especially in your job search. Here are 5 powerful tips… An apple a day keeps the doctor away. John asks, “Can I eat 7 apples on Sunday instead?” The job seeker is advised to send out 10 resumes a day to plant seeds of new opportunities for his better future. He sends out …
6 Tips to Thrive in the New Protean Workplace
The Industrial Age workplace has been replaced by the Protean workplace. * No jobs or careers for life anymore; no job security * No guaranteed benefits, vacation days, sick days, pensions, or even paychecks * Companies, industries, and jobs that are here today but gone …
5 Specific Ways to Improve Your Inner Chatter
Would you revisit a movie you loathed time and time again? Of course you wouldn’t. So why would you go back, in the theater of your mind, and revisit thoughts that cause you pain, stress, and disease? Almost every minute of everyday your head is full of thoughts, beliefs, and expectations. You have more conversations with yourself in the course …
How to Predict the Future
Strategically anticipating and predicting the future! What TV shows will Americans want to watch in the coming years? What kind of fashions will people want to be wearing 3 to 5 years from now? What kind of apps and capabilities will entice consumers to purchase Smart phones in the years ahead? Did Blockbuster Video anticipate and prepare for Netflix and …
8 Tips to Run Your Day like a Millionaire (No Matter Where You are at Now)
He asked me, “How many hours a day does a happy, successful, and financially independent person have?” I thought about it for just a few seconds and figured that it had to be a trick question. But I decided to play along. “24 hours a day,” I responded; waiting to hear why that was the wrong answer. To my surprise, …
13 Things NOT to Say to Jobless Friends
This week, I was asked to provide my insights to Boston Herald columnist, Darren Garnick for a feature article he was writing and that appeared Wednesday April 7th. He mentioned to me that a close relative recently lost her job, and to console her, some of her friends and relatives said, in Darren’s words, the most asinine things. I gave …