Clarity of purpose and direction is one of the keys to career and life success in my Common Sense Success System.  I discuss it in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Your Success GPS and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  To develop your personal clarity or purpose you need to do three things.  First, define what success means to you.  Second, create a vivid mental image of you as a success.  Once you define what success means to you personally, I suggest that you develop a clear mental picture of you …

Competence is one of the four keys to career and life success in my Common Sense Success System.  I also discuss it in some detail in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success; Your Success GPS; and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to succeed you need to develop four basic, but important competencies: 1) creating positive personal impact; 2) becoming a consistently high performer; 3) dynamic communication skills; and 4) becoming interpersonally competent. 
There are four key competencies that will help you become a career and life success:

You have to …

Competence is one of the four keys to career and life success in my Common Sense Success System.  I also discuss it in some detail in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success; Your Success GPS; and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to succeed you need to develop four basic, but important competencies: 1) creating positive personal impact; 2) becoming a consistently high performer; 3) dynamic communication skills; and 4) becoming interpersonally competent. 
There are four key competencies that will help you become a career and life success:

You have to …

Self confidence is one of the keys to personal and professional success that is part of my Common Sense Success System.  I discuss it in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Your Success GPS and 42 Rules to Jumpstart your Professional Success. 
You can become self confident by doing three things.  First, choose optimism.  Believe in your heart of hearts that today will be better than yesterday, and that tomorrow will be better than today.  Second, face your fears and act.  Procrastination and inaction feed fear and rob you of self confidence.  Action cures …

Happy New Year. 
This is a special Sunday post.  As we begin 2009, I want to review my ideas on personal and professional success as described in Straight Talk for Success. 
Thanks to you, Straight Talk became an Amazon.com bestseller last year.  And, I’ve received offers from two publishers to write follow up books.  So be on the lookout for a Walk the Talk handbook called Your Success GPS, and a 42 Rules book, 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Personal and Professional Success later this year.  I’m also working with my friends at SelfGrowth.com to …

Just a heads up today.  My friend Mel Richardson writes a blog called Money, Cash Finance.  Yesterday, he had a great post on success, called "Advance Your Career: Tips to Help You Stand Out In Your Profession." 
I hope you’re having a good weekend.  I was sorry to see that Big Brown couldn’t pull off the Triple Crown victory.
Tomorrow, I’ll be posting on self confidence success secrets that I learned from the movie Kung Fu Panda.
Best wishes for your continued success
Bud

Today is Tuesday so normally this post would be on creating positive personal impact.
However, this is no ordinary Tuesday.  Today, I am launching my new book “Straight Talk for Success.”
“Straight Talk” has five sections.  Each corresponds to a key element of career and life success.  My research and experience tells me that all successful people have five things in common.
• Successful people are self confident.• Successful people create positive personal impact.• Successful people are outstanding performers.• Successful people are dynamic communicators.• Successful people are interpersonally competent.

If you read this blog with some regularity, you know …

This is my second post today.  I rarely do two posts in one day, but I wanted to make sure that readers of this blog didn’t miss out on the chance to buy a great new book at a discounted price, and get over $8,500 in bonuses to go with it.
Do you know what impacts health and longevity the most?
EDUCATION is top of the list!
That’s why I’m always reading books, listening to audio programs, and attending quality trainings.I’ll bet you do too.
And, when I come across a particularly useful book or program, I love …

Earlier this week I was invited to do an interview with Jim Bouchard of PowerPOD.
We talked about how personal responsibility, ethical values and discipline should be part of our “Common Sense” for individuals and for businesses.
Listen to it here:
Common Sense with Bud Bilanich

Today is Sunday.  I usually don’t post on Sunday, but I felt compelled to do so today.
I arrived home late Thursday from a trip to New York.  I gave my snail mail a quick glance and found the hard copy version of the premiere issue of the newly relaunched SUCCESS Magazine.  I spent some time with it on Friday.  I was impressed!
Darren Hardy, SUCCESS Publisher and Editorial Director, has put together a great magazine for anyone interested in achieving a successful life and career.  In his Publisher’s Letter, Mr. Hardy says,
“If you seek a …