Up All Night? How to Recover from Entrepreneur Insomnia
Do you toss and turn all night? Do you feel groggy upon awakening? Does your energy crash in the middle of the day? You might be like a large percentage of Americans who do not get enough sound sleep. And you might be like a growing group of business owners who are burning the midnight [...]
8 College Courses That Will Make You Rich
Is it common knowledge that school doesn’t prepare you well for the real world?
Sure, you can get a good degree, find a well-paying job, work until you’re in your 60s, and then retire to enjoy the life you’ve deferred for 40+ years. However, that may not prove to be a successful life, a secure life, [...]
The Fast Track To Being A Winner Is By Becoming A Public Figure
It was 1989 Europe - a five year old was playing war in the courtyard of his building with the neighborhood kids - and time was rough under the Socialist regime. There were no hard rules, no guidelines, and only the oppressors had plastic weapons. One thing was clear though, everyone wanted to be a [...]
Realizing Success Through Empowerment
So many times when things go badly in our lives we find ourselves wondering how we ended up in such a bad situation, or who is to blame. These are self-defeating mindsets that limit our ability to recover, or to succeed.
Instead of developing a defeatist attitude when something goes awry, try to adjust to a [...]
Beating Procrastination is Easy – Once You Get Moving
One of the biggest difficulties for most people to overcome is procrastination. We all have things we dread doing, and it is so much easier to come up with excuses not to do those things, or find other more pressing things to take care of, all as a means of avoidance. Then we look at [...]
Is it Smart to Trade Time for Money?
Towers Perrin, a large human resource consulting firm, just published survey results revealing that most workers have strong negative emotions towards their work. I belonged to this group until several years ago when I decided to transcend my fear and transform my career from a wage earning software engineer to an entrepreneur.
This alchemy of professions [...]
Experience Required: 8 Ways to Get Experience for that Job Listing
For the new job seeker or prospective career-changer, the idea of getting hired in a new field can be daunting.
You’re looking for a job listing like this:
“Exciting company seeks enthusiastic entry-level employee. Competitive salary, great benefits, will train.”
…but what you’ll find is probably more like this:
“Established company has an opening in the ABC department. Prefer [...]
7 Foolish Excuses You Need to Stop Using
Does it seem that somebody else is always responsible for your failures? Are you ever at fault? Well, guess what. Foolish excuses, pointing fingers and living in denial are temporary band-aids that will eventually come undone and cause you nothing but heartache. If you are one of the people living in denial, stop pretending to [...]
Simple Manifesto: Break Free from the Tyranny of the Clock
For tens of thousands of years, human beings didn’t have clocks. They lived, amazingly, by the sun and the moon and seasons and the needs and rhythms of their bodies.
The clock is a very very recent invention, and even more recent is our modern society’s slavish adherence to the dictatorship of the clock.
Only very recently [...]
All We Need is Love? Wrong! Here are 6 Ways to Improve your Relationship
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ve all heard it before. The Beatles sang about it, thousands have written about it, countless young hopefuls have pondered it….
‘All you need is love’.
(Or, so they say).
With today’s divorce rate climbing faster than you can swallow a slice of wedding cake, it seems that we need a lot more than just [...]
