What is the salary enjoyed by the elite practitioners in your field? Be mindful. This is your benchmark.
Elite mindful plumbers may make $200,000 a year.
Elite mindful law partners may make $500,000 a year.
Elite mindful teachers may make $100,000 a year.
Know the figure. Be happy with the figure. If not, [...]
Continue Reading →Can’t or won’t
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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Will the president’s next new job plan work? Could a Republican in the White House do a better job?
Is Microsoft hiring while Bank of America is firing?
You can anticipate and hope. You can lament. You can feel betrayed by teachers and parents and politicians. You can feel sorry for yourself. You can wait. [...]
Continue Reading →Living in the United States, in 2011, how much money do you need to afford a decent lifestyle – nothing fancy – just decent?
You want to make enough money to:
1. To pay your bills.
2. To invest so that at some point your investments work while you retire.
3. To spoil those you love. Yes, [...]
Continue Reading →Read today’s headlines …
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE THAN JOBS.
Read tomorrow’s headlines …
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE THAN JOBS.
To get a job, you’ve got to be prepared and calculating.
To advance in a company, you’ve got to be prepared, calculating, smart and have a high [...]
Continue Reading →You don’t want to be a dummy but how smart do you really have to be to be successful – meaning to make a decent living and be happy?
Are you smart if you have a college degree?
You aren’t very smart if you spend four years and a few hundred grand on an education and [...]
Continue Reading →College graduates in the years 2006 – 2008 had starting salaries averaging $30,000.
College graduates in the years 2009 – 2010 had starting salaries averaging $27,000.
THIS IS A DROP OF TEN PERCENT 10%!
But, if you were even able to find a job, thank your lucky stars.
You are making something. [...]
Continue Reading →There are lots of people who will help you with your business career and you should avail yourself of their help.
Let’s start with you should read.
If you are in real estate, you will be an expert after reading 40 books, so read 40 books.
Whatever your business, selling jewelry, landscaping, elementary Continue Reading →
Just stop.
Just stop and listen to the talk around you.
The economy is terrible.
You can’t find a job.
This is a terrible time to buy real estate.
You should wait before you start a business.
You will hear lots of people sharing ignorance.
Just stop and listen and then stop [...]
Continue Reading →Some important statistics:
Only 50% of those who attend a four-year college ever graduate.
Within five years, only 50% of college graduates are working in a field related to their major study.
So, one out of two students pay a lot of money to attend college but do not leave with a degree. BUT, they still [...]
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