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Category Archives: Relationships
Bad Career Advice: Just Network!
If you’ve ever looked for a job, you’ve undoubtedly been advised that the best way to get a one is through your network. Â If you don’t have a network, all experts agree you need to get out and build one. … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Law, Marketing, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Advice, Career, Dream Job, How to get a job, Marketing, networking
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The Wise Man
The wise man is content with himself. The wise man lacks nothing but needs much, whereas the fool needs nothing but lacks everything. This isn’t as highfalutin as it sounds. The fool needs nothing, because he doesn’t know how … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Relationships
Tagged Quotes, Seneca, Wisdom, Zen
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Racing To Not Fall Behind
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. – Blaise Pascal, 17th Century We have now, as a society, reached a point of near constant and total … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Contemplation, Empty, News, Pascal, Quiet, Race, Reading, Reflection
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Front-Running
Why does it matter who wins the South Carolina primary next week? Â Why, after votes in only two other states, would a win for Mitt Romney make him the prohibitive favorite? Â It’s an interesting psychological question that reaches far beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Marketing, Persuasion, Rationality, Relationships
Tagged Influence, Marketing, Persuasion, Psychology, Rationality, Seth Godin, Social
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Nobody Cares About Your Happiness
If you’re lucky, 10 people might care about your happiness. Â That’s it. Some other people might care whether you show up for work. Â They might care whether you perform, which means they care that you’re just happy enough not to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Happiness, Job, Meaning, Purpose, relationships, Selling, Work
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“I Have a Problem”
Problems are generally thought of as bad things. And, for the people afflicted with those problems, they undoubtedly are. But problems are what drive the service industry. People’s problems managing or finding time create opportunities for personal assistants, shoppers, organizers, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Law, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Career, Job, JSK, Problem
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The Problem With “No Problem”
“No problem” is almost universal in service industries today. “Can I get a refill?” “No problem.” “Could you transfer this money from my checking account to my savings account?” “No problem.” “Thanks.” “No problem.” It may seem innocuous, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Persuasion, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Tips
Tagged Four Seasons, Language, My Pleasure, NLP, No Problem, Ritz-Carlton, Service
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A Hell of a Eulogy
Worrying about your legacy is ridiculous.  Fretting over how people you will never meet will come to judge your life is not only rewardless, it’s counter-productive.  It generally inhibits your ability  to focus on how the living, the people you … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Christopher Hitches, Death, Eulogy, Life, Planning
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How To Choose Friends
Friends are important. Â They may have a bigger influence on the direction of your life than anything else. Â So isn’t it strange that some of our closest friends just happen to be people we stood next to on the bus … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Relationships
Tagged Choice, Friendship, relationships, Seneca
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Three Tips To Help Convince People You’re Not A Serial Killer
We deal with a lot of higher level stuff here, like strategy and philosophy, but I want to bring it down for a post to offer some very practical, easy to implement, and essential life tips. Today, I want to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Tips
Tagged Body Language, Eye contact, Tips
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Why The First “Follower” Is The Most Important
A great lesson on how movements start, explained in this video in under three minutes, by Derek Sivers: It’s the first follower that turns a lone nut into a leader. Â When you find a lone nut doing something great, have … Continue reading
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Tagged Derek Sivers, Follower, Henry Ford, Leader, Movement
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A Plant Frequently Moved Never Grows Strong
A plant which is frequently moved never grows strong. People who spend their whole life traveling abroad end up having plenty of places where they can find hospitality but no real friendships. We place a big emphasis, and not wrongly, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged experience, Goals, Life, mastery, relationships, Seneca, Stoicism, Travel
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Keeping It Real: People Want Sincerity, Not Honesty
For almost all of hip hop’s existence, rappers and artists were judged, at least to some degree, on how “real” they were. “Real”, of course, didn’t mean honest or sincere, but was specifically defined as having “the right type of … Continue reading
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Tagged Honesty, John Mayer, Keeping It Real, Sincerity
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Choose Your Friends Wisely
Who has a bigger influence on the person you turn out to be: your parents or your friends? Since at least the days of Freud, psychologists believed parents were the overwhelming factor in how their children turned out. But, it … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Decision, Failure, Friends, Goal, Life, Losers, Mentors, Success, Winners
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Thanksgiving
It’s nice that Americans (and Canadians) have a holiday dedicated to giving thanks. But, it would be nicer still if we made an effort to do this more than once a year, especially if we could do it without being … Continue reading
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