will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
If you live your life as a mindful individual, a tough, spiritual person of action, you will be successful.
Choose to live a mindful life. Get ready.
Get ready to start each day positive and enthusiastic.
Get ready to act.
Get [...]
Continue Reading →Do we need the first lady to tell us why American school children are fat?
We know the cause. Schools have cancelled gym. The average kid watches 40 hours of television a week. Kids play video games inside rather than play neighborhood sports outside because some moms think that there are molesters lurking behind every stranger’s [...]
Continue Reading →Pause in this moment
Wait
This is your time – take it
Let everything go
Let the anger go
Let the tension go
Identify your breath as you breathe in and out
Choose a pleasant [...]
Continue Reading →Can’t or won’t?
Face the fact that some majors and degrees are interesting but not marketable. Simply having a college degree is not enough to guarantee a secure financial future.
Acknowledge that all courses are not created equally. It is your time and money. If education [...]
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Find another industry. You work in the steel industry or for a newspaper, video rental, tobacco or clothing company, consider packing your bags because technology and foreign competition are killing these industries. Forget the wishful thinking and the politicians empty promises. Get off the ship.
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Can’t or won’t
On your way home from work, you can stop for a few beer with the guys or your can surprise everyone at home with flowers, pizza and a half gallon of ice cream. You make your family more important than your friends.
Your “EX” [...]
Continue Reading →If you majored in medieval studies, you best job option would be to find employment selling jousting equipment at a Renaissance fair.
If you majored in Elizabethan poetry, you would probably be happy setting up Open Mike nights at a local coffee shop.
If you majored in psychology, you have many choices [...]
Continue Reading →Many young job applicants were sold a bill of goods.
Professors and counselors and parents had no incentive to cause friction by telling “youngsters” that getting an “A” in courses like “The Role of Movies in Society” will not get them a $60,000 entry level professional position.
Young job applicants sailed blissfully [...]
Continue Reading →Your family owns a dry cleaner.
Your brother works for General Motors.
Your neighbor owns a liquor store.
Your college buddy works for Microsoft.
Your cousin installs swimming pools.
Guess what? Whomever you are, you have lots of connections.
Think. Make a list. Make a long list.
This is your career. This [...]
Continue Reading →Oh, you don’t need my permission.
That’s right, you don’t need my permission or anyone’s permission to succeed.
You can make a decision and choose success for yourself.
Your uncle is a plumber. You get him to hire you as a laborer. You get into the union as an apprentice. You become a [...]
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