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Your Perceptions Will Control Your Outcome and Life
When I was in middle school, my girlfriend announced to me she was going to try out for the cheerleading squad. Our relationship consisted mainly of us riding our bikes to school together each day. Occasionally, I might call her after school. The cheerleading...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 10 CommentsHow You Deal with Problems Will Determine the Quality of Your Life
One of the things I have learned over the years is anyone can be up when things are going well. However, the real challenge is when things are not going well. All businesses and all relationships go through problems, and how you deal with problems will...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 6 CommentsI am sure you have heard about how Sam Walton used to drive around in an old pickup truck—despite being worth billions of dollars. Warren Buffet lives in a house not worth more than $200,000 and has lived there for thirty-plus years. He also works in...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, Life Lessons 1 CommentHow to Use Newspaper Classified Ads and Newspaper Help Wanted Ads to Look for Jobs
Historically, the best place to look for jobs was in the newspaper help wanted ads. In fact, newspapers were largely supported by revenue from help wanted ads until recently. The stories you have likely heard about various newspapers closing down and/or...
Filed under Featured, Finding a Job, The Role of Jobs in Today’s World 1 CommentSee the Connection, Not the Differences
There is a famous story about Charles Darwin hiking through the countryside in England with his friend: “There’s an abundance of clover here,” observed Darwin. “This district must have many widows.” The two strolled on, Darwin enjoying the country...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 1 CommentThe Importance of Planting Seeds: My Experience with the Scientologists
“And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: a sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured...
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 5 CommentsI am going to share with you a story I have been warned I could go to jail for repeating. More than a decade ago, my ex-wife was working for one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry and spent most of her time on his Beverly Hills estate....
Filed under Featured, Getting Ahead, How to Succeed 6 CommentsDo What You Want to Do, Not What You Think You Should Do
I know two men who worked in New York City, each of whom made millions of dollars and immediately quit their jobs, taking up completely different careers as gas station owners in New Jersey. I learned about one of these men when I was in college, and...
Filed under Advancement, Featured 2 CommentsThe Greatest Thing in the World
Henry Drummond’s The Greatest Thing in the World is a classic work that illuminates the importance of Corinthians 13. Here, he addresses practical ways in which Christians today can experience the greatest thing in the world – LOVE. Widely...
Filed under Featured, Self Improvement Books 1 CommentProsperity Through Thought – Force
Bruce MacLelland’s Prosperity Through Thought-Force discusses how one man, whose life was accustomed to failure and who did not have strong abilities, was able to make an incredible change in his life using certain principles. The book is inspiring...
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