Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all of my Irish friends and wannabe Irish friends today.  I’m wearing a green plaid shirt in honor of the day.  How about you?
As a career success coach I advise my clients to surround themselves with positive people if they want to achieve the career success they want and deserve.  I practice what I preach.  I have a strong network of friends and partners who I can call on.  I also make use of mentors.  Linda Hollander is one of my mentors.  She is teaching me how to attract corporate …

Last Saturday, I was on my way from midtown Manhattan to Newark Airport when a Porsche Cayenne passed me.  It had a vanity plate that said, “DR DBK.”  I’m not a vanity plate guy, the regular old plates I got from the State of Colorado are fine with me.  On the other hand, I do like to figure out the message on vanity plates.  This one seemed pretty simple.  The woman driving the Porsche was a doctor and her initials were DBK.  I could be wrong, but I’d be willing to bet on this one.
As a …

Creating positive personal impact is one of the keys to success that is part of my Career Success GPS system.  I discuss it in detail in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Your Success GPS, 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success, Star Power, I Want YOU…To Succeed.  As a career success coach I always tell my clients that you need to do three things to create positive personal impact: 1) build and nurture your unique personal brand; 2) be impeccable in your presentation of self – in person and on line; 3) …

Choose to commit to taking personal responsibility for your career success.  I discuss this idea in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Your Success GPS, Star Power, I Want You…To Succeed, and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  It is one of the keys to career success in my Career Success GPS system.
Positive self talk can help you take personal responsibility for your career success – especially when things aren’t going so well.  As a career success coach I always tell my clients, “Stuff happens: good stuff, bad stuff, happy stuff, sad …

I have a great partnership with the folks at The Walk the Talk Company.  They have published three of my books: Leading With Values; Solving Performance Problems and Your Success GPS.  Later this year, they will be releasing a new book I’ve written: Common Sense Ideas for Building a Dream Team.  I’m on their mailing list.  Yesterday, this quote from Gail McMeekin, a Walk the Talk author, showed up in my in box.
“What are your personal anchors — people, things, places, or rituals — that keep you connected to yourself, your sense of well-being, and …

Pearl Buck was one of my favorite authors when I was a child.  I loved The Good Earth.  The other day, I came across a quote by her that grabbed me – so much so that I went looking for some paper to copy it…
“Every great mistake has a half way moment, a splt second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”
As a career success coach, I read that and said, “Wow!”
I tell my career success coaching clients that stuff is going to happen as you go through life – some of it unpleasant.  …

I’ve had a rough week.  My 85 year old dad fell and hit his head.  He didn’t realize it but he had some bleeding inside his skull.  This caused him to have more falls – especially when he was awakened in the night.  He had to have surgery to drain the blood from his skull as it was causing excessive pressure on his brain.  He is OK, but having lost my mother about a year ago, I was concerned and distracted.
When I get concerned and distracted, it is difficult for me to concentrate on my …

Like about a zillion other people, I went to see Alice in Wonderland in 3D over the weekend.  Tim Burton did a good job directing an enjoyable film. 
But as a career success coach, I’m always looking for messages that relate to my message on career success.  I found it near the end of the film.  If you’ve read Alice in Wonderland, you know that the White Queen tells her “Some days I believe in six impossible things before breakfast.”  I don’t want to spoil the end of the film for you, but in this version …

I was in line waiting to pay at a book store the other day and I saw a small book on the counter.  It was called How Successful People Think, and written by John Maxwell, a prolific writer.  He has sold over 16 million books.  Because I’m a career success coach who is always looking for new information to help my career success coaching clients, I bought the book.  And I’m glad I did.    It contains some great career success advice.
Chapter 10 is titled, “Practice Unselfish Thinking.”  Relationship building is one of the success competencies …

In his book Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Lee Iacocca makes a great point about one of my favorite topics: Common Sense.  He says he learned it from one of his first bosses and mentors, a guy by the name of Charlie Beacham.  Mr. Iacocca describes Charlie Beacham as a “Southerner with a warm drawl, a huge smile and a core of steel.”  I don’t have a drawl, but I would be happy to be known as some with a huge smile and a core of steel.  Here is the advice Lee Iacocca got …