2023-01-21 06:00
I read another article about someone in Los Angeles crashing a Ferrari into a pole today. The car was split in half. The driver of the Ferrari was Charles Lewis, a famous mixed mar… Read More
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2022-06-19 06:00
Predominantly, this is an e-book that talks about the intricacies and clarities on various attributes of management, and enables all those who aspire to be future managers, or want to embark… Read More
2022-06-12 06:00
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 th… Read More
2022-05-18 06:30
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 Piz… Read More
2022-05-08 06:30
Napolean Hill, the author of probably the greatest success self help book of all time, Think & Grow Rich, was massively influenced by Charles Haanel’s most famous work, The Master… Read More
2021-12-25 06:07
Regardless of what you do, the odds are that you could potentially get a job teaching. If you have significant professional experience in a field (or even not that significant professional… Read More
2021-12-23 06:20
All of us have incredible potential that is rarely, if ever, awakened. This book discusses the power of the solar plexus and our ability generate great potential and accomplishment using it… Read More
2021-12-22 06:20
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 fur… Read More
2021-12-21 06:28
I watched a chilling story on CNN yesterday about a man who has started a business driving his small motorboat up and down a river outside of Shanghai, finding and picking up suicide victim… Read More
2021-12-20 06:20
I saw the most interesting documentary on Mike Tyson recently, James Toback’s Tyson. A review of the film in Time magazine relates:
At first he was a variation on the proverbial 97-po… Read More
2021-12-19 06:20
From ages 13 to 17, I attended six different schools in a variety of cities and countries. I never found attending these new schools all that difficult. What I disliked, though, was p… Read More
2021-12-18 06:30
A persistent fight that many couples have is that one may like to get out and do all sorts of things (meet people, dine out, and so forth) and the other may enjoy just sitting at home doing… Read More
2021-12-17 06:23
At least a decade ago, I started receiving all of these phone calls from American Express Financial Advisors urging me to invest with them my 401(k) from my previous job. After putting off… Read More
2021-12-16 06:10
Let me start with some recent figures, from 2008:
“The median job search among those winning positions in the third quarter lasted nearly 4.4 months,” up from 3.6 months in the… Read More
2021-12-15 06:20
I know of so many people who fail to get jobs and, ultimately, do not have good careers because they keep their minds cluttered with things that have nothing to do with their job search. I… Read More
2021-12-14 06:20
Several years ago, I had a girlfriend who would fly off the handle at the slightest criticism. It didn’t matter who was criticizing her. She would call people ugly, smelly, shor… Read More
2021-12-13 06:20
I cannot tell you how many people have ruined their careers by having the wrong attitude when it comes to working weekends and holidays. Although you may consider your work just a job, if y… Read More
2021-12-12 16:45
Some of the happiest, most well-adjusted, and most effective people I know are also people who have a profound ability to disconnect from their work.
They can disconnect rapidly and put them… Read More
2021-12-11 17:40
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
–Tacitus (c. 55-120 A.D.)
“Oh, I already have a friend there. I’… Read More
2021-04-05 06:00
It might not seem like it at first glance, but truly, there are more resources to find jobs than you could ever take advantage of. In fact, despite having been in the career business for mo… Read More
2021-04-03 06:00
When I was practicing law, there was a guy who must have been in his early 40s who had broken with reality. I think he really might have gone insane. He desperately wanted to get… Read More
2021-04-02 06:00
Napolean Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is probably, in my opinion, the best career book ever written.While the subject of the book deals with earning money, the book itself is actually a… Read More
2020-09-21 06:00
When I was younger, there was a restaurant on Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, that used to offer people a percentage off the price of their meals equal to a person’s age… Read More
2020-07-09 06:00
If there is a lack of any kind, whether it is need for employment, or for money, or for guidance, or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective remedy: Give! S… Read More
2020-05-25 06:00
One of my neighbors in Malibu is John Paul Dejoria.
According to Forbes, he is worth over 4-billion dollars.
Dejoria started a shampoo company called Paul Mitchell with $750 while homel… Read More
2020-03-25 09:25
From the time I was 19 until I was about 27, I spent a good portion of my summers doing asphalt work around Detroit. That included asphalt sealing, hot tar crack filling, and asphalt patchi… Read More
2020-03-24 18:31
In the 1967 movie The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman plays a young, recent college graduate, Ben. At a party, Ben is congratulated by his family and their friends:
Guests: We’re all so prou… Read More
2020-03-20 18:04
One of the best sources of jobs out there is government jobs. There are so many sources of government jobs, it is astonishing. Most government jobs are poorly advertised or promoted and rec… Read More
2019-10-05 06:00
When I was in college, my girlfriend had the annoying habit of periodically declaring that the dorms were too noisy for her to sleep. What this really meant was she had decided it was time f… Read More
2019-09-24 06:00
You have probably heard before that people tend to be visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. In my experience, this is true and it is something you can generally pick up on within just a few minu… Read More
2019-07-28 06:00
In this book, Managing Your Career, Sean McPheat gives readers a practical plan on how to go about taking control of their careers, no matter what field they are in. Sean is the Founder and… Read More
2019-07-13 06:00
There is one very easy and almost fail-safe way to evaluate companies, individuals, and various groups of people. It can save you a tremendous amount of worry in business deals and it can a… Read More
2019-04-23 06:00
Ninety percent of the people I have ever interviewed as a prospective employer never tried to determine the wants, requirements, and needs of our company.
How can someone possibly obtain or… Read More
2019-03-31 06:00
The Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer Kahlil Gibran, in his book The Madman, presents a thought-provoking collection of short parables and poems ranging in length from a single para… Read More
2019-03-03 06:30
How 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… Read More
2019-01-28 06:30
A few years ago, I had dinner with one of Google’s first employees. How he joined Google was a long and convoluted story that had more elements of luck than I can ever recount.
He&rsq&helli…Read More
2019-01-20 06:00
Yoritomo-Tashi presents to us ideas that enormously dominate the human mind through this tremendously inspiring book, Influence: How to Exert It. In the twelve lessons contained in this book… Read More
2019-01-07 06:30
Most people are motivated by either information, people, activities, things, or places. You are probably focused on one of these as well, and this explains why some people interest you, and… Read More
2018-12-23 06:30
In this book, David McKean talks about the secret of good IT Management. The book offers insights into leadership and communication styles that are essential to make successful IT managers… Read More
2018-12-16 06:00
In his book What All the World’s A-Seeking, Ralph Waldo Trine explains in an extremely lucid and simple manner the laws and forces governing true life with all its glories and what mak… Read More
2018-12-02 06:00
I read this book some time back and I’d like to share it with you. The Power of Concentration by Theron Dumont is an incredibly interesting book and has lots of useful infor… Read More
2018-11-11 06:00
“The Art of Personal Effectiveness” by Eric Garner, encourages readers to be assertive and confident. It is an anthology of around 500 quotes from Aristotle, Mark Twain, Napoleon… Read More
2018-09-30 06:00
How 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 bec… Read More
2018-09-28 06:00
After being in the workforce for many years, I’ve come to realize that all of our jobs are, quite simply, games. In every job you have ever had, you are part of a game. Your ability to… Read More
2018-09-23 06:00
Our minds have tremendous power and can do incredible tasks once we know how to activate its power. In Annie Bessant’s Thought Power … Its Control and Culture, you will learn ho… Read More
2018-09-20 06:00
Over the past week I have been witnessing something extremely unusual in my backyard.
There is a crow outside, who appears to be ill – he’s not doing well at all. The crow appear… Read More
2018-09-19 06:00
Around Los Angeles there is a plumbing service known as the Lone Drainer. The Lone Drainer typically drives around in a van and responds to various plumbing issues. To my astonishment, ther… Read More
2018-09-16 06:00
In these intolerant times, this E-book by Eric Garner can make us smile due to its accuracy and wisdom. Each quote, part of this book, offers its readers essential learning to skillfully man… Read More
2018-09-15 06:00
I remember growing up around kids with books of puzzles and games in elementary school and junior high school; these were always the kinds of kids that did not fit in. They also got beat up… Read More
2018-09-11 06:00
Several years ago, I was working at a law firm and I started to hear about and notice something extremely unusual. There was a certain partner who seemed to have a profound ability to destro… Read More
2018-09-10 06:00
Every recruiter’s individual style has certain merits. However, there are recruiters who are truly exceptional at what they do.
Choosing an exceptional recruiter is even more importan… Read More
2018-09-08 06:00
When Cameron Diaz first moved to Hollywood she very quickly became one of the most popular people in town. Everyone knew who she was: she was well-liked, popular and someone people we… Read More
2018-09-07 06:00
When I started in the asphalt business, the people I was competing against were charging exorbitant rates for their work. As an example, they might charge $600 to seal coat an average-size d… Read More
2018-09-02 06:00
L. W. Rogers’s Self-Development and the Way to Power is a marvelously inspiring book that speaks of happiness as a product of wisdom. Rogers states that a person is either a slave of n… Read More
2018-08-25 06:00
The first time I visited Las Vegas was in 1988. The city was far different back then, with an old Western vibe–not at all like the modern strip with all of the new casinos and so forth… Read More
2018-08-24 06:00
A 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 sid… Read More
2018-08-23 06:00
The most important thing you can do in your pursuit of success is avoid complacency. Never allow yourself to settle down and accept your results as finite. You need to surround yourself with… Read More
2018-08-22 06:00
I have been restoring two old Aston Martins for probably close to a decade. I have had various parts of the cars repainted, new carpets and upholstery installed, the dashboards redone, and t… Read More
2018-08-19 06:00
I have republished Russell Conwell’s Acres of Diamonds below. Conwell delivered this speech over 5,000 times between 1900 and 1925. It is one of the greatest pieces on finding opportun… Read More
2018-08-16 06:00
Several years ago, after September 11, 2001, I was speaking with the founder of an internet consulting firm in San Francisco. The firm was getting ready to close its doors and go out of bus… Read More
2018-08-14 06:00
For a portion of one summer when I was younger, I had a valet job at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club outside of Detroit, Michigan. I worked during the lunch hour and spent most of my time sitt… Read More
2018-08-13 06:00
About three years ago, my mother’s boyfriend Dave started calling me and threatening to come out to California from Detroit and kill me unless I made my mother sign her house over to h… Read More
2018-08-12 06:00
In his book, “The Path of Prosperity”, James Allen teaches you how to change your life through the way you think. This book will help you understand how to find p… Read More
2018-08-11 06:00
I am ashamed to admit it, but I do not even own a house key. I’ve lived in the same house for years and never owned one.
I leave the doors of my house open.
I leave my car doors unlock… Read More
2018-08-10 06:00
Scarface is a 1983 movie about a man who comes over as an immigrant from Cuba to Miami in the 1980s. Between approximately April and October of 1980, there was a mass exodus of Cubans to Mia… Read More
2018-08-06 06:00
Too many people approach their job searches from the perspective of their own needs. They need a job, they need to make more money, they need flexible working hours and benefits. This is no… Read More
2018-08-03 06:00
Growing up, I was always watching boxing on television. I will never forgot watching Muhammad Ali knock out numerous people and chant that he was the “king of the world” and the… Read More
2018-07-29 06:00
Genevieve Behrend’s Attaining Your Desires by Letting Your Subconscious Mind Work for You is a magical book that conveys to us the method of scientific right thinking and compels us to… Read More
2018-07-28 06:00
The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches by Joe Karbo is one of the best-selling books of all time. You may have seen the advertisement for this book in Popular Science and other magazines in whic… Read More
2018-07-08 06:00
Thomas Troward’s The Creative Process in the Individual, is a multilayered book in which the author presents to the reader an interesting sequence of actions beginning with the creatio… Read More
2018-07-04 06:00
A few months ago, I found myself sitting in a shipyard getting ready to look at a couple of ships. The particular ship I was going to look at next had originally been used to ferry crew back… Read More
2018-07-01 06:00
“Enthusiasm is as brittle as crystal, but common sense is durable as brass.” Blanchard Yorimoto-Tashi, one of the greatest statesmen that Japan has ever produced, presents s… Read More
2018-06-24 06:00
A Textbook of Theosophy, first published in 1912 and among C.W. Leadbeater’s most famous works, describes in a lucid manner the evolution of life, mankind, the planet, and our prime pu… Read More
2018-06-22 06:00
I love sports cars. For as long as I can remember, I have been unable to drive by an exotic car dealership without stopping, going inside, and looking at the cars. My wife hates this about m… Read More
2018-06-20 06:00
One day several years ago, I was sitting in my office in Los Angeles when two barefooted women walked in. Their feet were dirty, and I can assure you, it is not normal for women to walk arou… Read More
2018-06-17 06:30
In this book titled Your Forces and how to Use them, Christian Larson talks about the inherent energies present in each one of us and how one can achieve great things just by realizing and u… Read More
2018-05-29 06:00
There is a story I heard some time ago about a man named Rabbi Akiva, who lived in Palestine. He was considered an extremely good person and also a sage. He became the greatest scholar of h… Read More
2018-05-28 06:00
When I was in my third year of college in Chicago, I received a notice from the City of St. Claire Shores, Michigan, that I owed them $18,000 and needed to report to court, because I might… Read More
2018-05-26 06:00
When I graduated from law school, I worked in Bay City, Michigan, for a federal judge for a year. Bay City is a former lumber town whose fortunes had long gone down the tubes when the lumber… Read More
2018-05-25 06:00
Recently, something quite interesting has been happening in the American economy. The government has decided to get involved in running various businesses. These businesses include insuranc… Read More
2018-05-24 06:00
When I was growing up, my mother was an investigator with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. Essentially, her job involved listening to various peoples’ complaints alleging they… Read More
2018-05-23 06:00
Nothing is more important to success in your career and life than being in the zone. The problem with most people, however, is that they are not in the zone; instead, they are merely doing… Read More
2018-05-22 06:00
One of the scariest things for any of us is being in crisis. A crisis can be defined several ways. It can be:
the loss of a job
a divorce
a traumatic injury
a death
the alienation of a… Read More
2018-05-21 06:00
The worst thing you can ever do in a professional relationship—and in a personal relationship, for that matter, is introduce what I call “fatal friction”. I have seen more… Read More
2018-05-18 06:00
When I was 18-years old I started an asphalt sealing business. My second asphalt sealing job was for the Chief Financial Officer of a Fortune 100 company. He lived on a giant hill in a tony… Read More
2018-05-17 08:00
Here is a list of job search sites to help you with whatever type of job search you may be doing:
List of job search sites
In addition, I’ve also added what I feel are some good job s… Read More
2018-05-15 06:00
When I was a freshman in college, one of my older fraternity brothers once dumped a giant pail of soup over my head while I was eating dinner. This was during my “pledge” period… Read More
2018-05-13 06:00
Orison Swett Marden’s An Iron Will is an inspiring book that states that the primary difference between those who succeed and those who fail is whether or not they have will power. How… Read More
2018-05-12 06:00
The focus of my career has been researching jobs from employer career pages, job sites, association sites and consolidating these jobs in one place. Through the course of this work I have l… Read More
2018-05-11 06:00
One thing I’ve learned in my lifetime is if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Every day, so many of us are glued to televisions and see people become rich overnight… Read More
2018-05-09 06:00
Since I live on the ocean, whenever I look out the window the first things I generally see are surfers, people on jet skis, and so forth. After years of watching at a distance, and without m… Read More
2018-05-06 06:30
Right and Wrong Thinking shows us that everything that happens around us is the result of our mind and how it works. You can make the most of yourself by using your mind in the correct manne… Read More
2018-05-05 06:46
In 1979, when McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal, I, along with every other kid, was excited to go to McDonald’s all of a sudden. I was 9 years old back then and the McDonald… Read More
2018-05-04 06:00
You have probably heard before that people tend to be visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. In my experience, this is true and it is something you can generally pick up on within just a few minu… Read More
2018-05-03 06:00
One of the questions that has bothered me for most of my life is this: “Why don’t certain people succeed?”
The reason this question has bothered me so much is because I fre… Read More
2018-04-29 06:00
Hermann Hesse’s allegorical novel Siddhartha, written in a simple, yet powerful lyrical style, is a tremendously inspiring book, written in German in 1922. It deals with the spiritual… Read More
2018-04-24 06:00
Regardless of what’s wrong in our lives, most of us spend a good portion of our time blaming others for whatever situation we’re in. Every morning for the past several decades… Read More
2018-03-18 06:00
“Thought-Force In Business and Everyday Life” by William Atkinson is an extremely interesting book that talks about personal magnetism, the quality of attracting and influen… Read More
2018-03-11 06:00
How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals into Reality is a book that talks about putting efforts in idealizing your desires. I am sure you will enjoy discovering the process of understanding how… Read More
2018-02-25 06:00
Your Invisible Power was the first book and by far the most powerful and popular works of Genevieve Behrend. Here, she presents, perpetuates, and shares the knowledge of the Troward philosop… Read More
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