Is it the art of getting hired or is it the science of getting hired? Or is it a crapshoot – buy a lottery ticket, attend a job fair, air out a resume and hope for the best? If you’ve been out of a job for a while; it can all drive you nuts. But […]
Time for Action: What’s Stopping You From Achieving a Promotion in 2011?
By Sarah Hathorn Even before the big ball dropped in Times Square to celebrate the advent of 2011, the media had been bombarding us for weeks with advice about our New Year’s resolutions. Lose a few pounds. Get back in shape. Kick a bad habit. Spend more quality time with your kids. Make better choices […]
101 Things to do…
I ran across this blog, The Personal Excellence Blog by Celestine Chua. It seems very interesting and I particularly liked her articles on a 101 things to do… These are the links to those articles, hitting one will get you to her site or you could look at each one individually… It’s all about getting […]
Setting Priorities
Three Mistakes to Avoid  By Leo Babauta, While it’s easy to be busy and crank out the tasks on your to-do list, it’s a bit more difficult to choose to do the important things — to live your life by priorities that you set for yourself. But living a life of smart priorities is […]
Greatness Beyond the Gridiron
Vince Lombardi’s ability to motivate people to achieve greatness transcended football. K. Shelby Skrhak If Vince Lombardi hadn’t become a football coach, he would have become a Catholic priest. The Brooklyn-born altar boy studied at seminary, waking before dawn to attend daily mass. Religion was as much about routine as it was devotion to his […]
Ten Life Lessons from Richard Branson
Richard Branson clearly knows a thing or two about success. At 20, he started a mail order shop, and opened a recording studio a short while later. Now, the Virgin brand boasts dozens of companies and Branson’s net worth is estimated to be more than 3 billion pounds sterling. As well as immense business success, […]
Take Control of Your Life
By Deepak Chopra We can’t do it all, so we do most things poorly—on a good day. And we’ve lived like this for so long that we don’t even realize how very far we are from reaching our potential! Most times, we’re just reacting, as though we’re being jerked to and fro by some gigantic […]
Begin with the End in Mind
Steven Covey coined a lot of great phrases. “Sharpening the Saw” in 3 words sums all the reasons we need to live a healthy life. We are the saw and if we don’t keep ourselves sharp and focused, what good are we? Still, one of my favorite phrases is “Begin with the End in Mind.” […]
Establish Your Own Personal Constitution
I wrote this post for my other blog. But as I looked at it more, I decided that it really fits here. But instead of rewriting it, I’ve decide to just post it as is here and let you substitute it to your situation as it applies to you. I’ve also added some personal mission […]
To Act Or Not to Act? – That is the Question
by Susan Russo “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I was recently asked to write about, “Why do you think people don’t act?” It is a question I think about often since one of my genres is self development. It blows me away […]
Self-Improvement Lessons From Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin was truly an amazing human being. He was a statesman, an inventor, an economist, a philosopher and the list goes on. And of course, he was one of our founding fathers. Ben Franklin also had a deep desire to make himself a better man than he was the day before. Self-improvement was a […]
