Following the Script Too Closely
[There’s a video bonus with today’s Note. See the PS. -m.e.] “You’re good at {insert school topic here}, you should be a {insert some well-admired job …
Career
Tips and Insights about your career.
What Is Your Sense of the Sum?
What is your sense of the sum? Negative, zero, or positive? Some people are zero-or-negative sum. They believe that the world is a harsh place, …
The Best Way to Land a Job These Days
Job boards, applications, resumes. Oh. My. Stories from the front lines tell us that the traditional way of finding a job is pretty well broken. The …
It’s Meant to Be Fun
It turns out that some of us were never told: work is meant to be fun. It is meant to have meaning, growth, good people, …
How Meaningful Is Your Career Right Now?
Meaningful careers are those where we are doing: Something that we are good at, Something that motivates us, Something that satisfies our needs, wants, and desires …
Picking a Dream
Achieving a dream requires that we first commit whole-heartedly to that dream. But–oh–we hesitate. We’re afraid that if we pick one dream we’ll either mess it up …
Nice Beats Experience
We can waste a lot of time struggling with people who are smart, hard working, experienced, connected, and/or driven but who are not the good, …
The Oddest Career and Marketing Secret
The secret is that the people we can help the most and best are the ones who struggle with the same things we struggle with. …
How to Make Your Business or Career Soar
Most of us do not give our hearts to anything. – J. Krishnamurti We all will continue to struggle in our businesses and careers until …
All Is Nominal
People who fire rockets like to say, “Conditions are nominal,” when everything is good to go. Guess what? Conditions are nominal. All the courage you …