Last Sunday’s New York Times Jobs section had an interesting article that echoes the career advice in Tweet 7 in my latest career success book Success Tweets – “Figure out what you really want to do.  Work you love will make it easier to create the life and career success you want and deserve.”
Katherine Rinne, the author is an Independent Scholar.  I bet you didn’t know such a career existed, did you?  I didn’t until I read the piece.  Katherine begins by saying…
“In 1992, I quit my teaching job at the University of Arkansas, put …

I enjoy helping people create the life and career success they want and deserve.
Every once in a while, I come across something that really reinforces why I am a career success coach, why I blog, and why I write books.  On Sunday, I received the email, I have cut and pasted below…
Dear Mr. Bilanich:
I am a participant of the International ThinkQuest Competition organized by the Oracle Education Foundation (USA). This competition challenges students all over the world to solve a real-world problem with practical solutions.
The topic of my team’s project is ‘Cracking the Career Code- …

I have another guest post for this career advice blog today. It comes from Jane Perdue, a leadership consultant.  Check out Jane’s thoughts on her blog http://www.lifeloveleadership.blogspot.com.
The very first tweet in my latest career success book, Success Tweets says, “Define exactly what life and career success mean to you.  It’s easier to hit a clear unambiguous target.  Jane agrees.  Here is her career advice on this subject…
How Do You Define Success?
The article title “Are you willing to pay the price for success?” did its job. I began reading. By the end of the second paragraph …

They played the Super Bowl yesterday.  The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers by a score of 31 – 25.  This killed me because I grew up in Pittsburgh and am a huge Steelers fan.  Oh well, maybe next year.
There is a lot of career advice to be found in a championship sporting event like the Super Bowl: focus, determination, hard work, commitment, attention to detail.  World class athletes demonstrate all of these career success characteristics.
In this post, I want to focus on an important, but often overlooked, piece of career advice that can be …

Last year I wrote a career success book called Success Tweets.  Billie Sucher and I followed up that book with another career advice book called Success Tweets for Finding a Job and Excelling in It.  Now, two of my friends, Bobbi Benson and Joseph Bernard have created their own tweets book, called Peace Tweets.  I’m proud to say that I contributed nine tweets to Peace Tweets.  Mary Casey, Chris Guillebeau and Ani Bell also contributed to Peace Tweets.
Peace Tweets is 140 bits of intention and inspiration for peace.  It also contains some great life and …

I saw a movie about life and career successs, “The Company Men,” with Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Kevin Costner last night.  It tells the story of three well paid executives who lose their jobs due to the economic downturn. 
As I watched, I was reminded of the career advice I often give my career success coach clients about how to get to the top of the promotion list and stay off the layoff list.  I thought I would share that career advice here.  You can find a more complete discussion of these ideas …

I find inspiration for this career advice blog everywhere.  I was at Denver international Airport returning from a trip to Boston and New York last Friday night.  I was on the train going from my concourse to the terminal when a young mother got on with her five or six year old son.  She was wearing a cowboy hat.  He was in full cowboy get up – hat, western shirt, jeans, boots and spurs.
I said to the mom, “He looks like he’s ready to rodeo.”  She told me  they were going to the rodeo at the …

Clarifying your purpose and direction in life is the first step in creating the life and career success you want and deserve.  Tweet 3 in my latest career advice book Success Tweets says, “Your direction is your vision for the next 3 to 5 years.” 
As you go through life and accomplish your goals, you will be likely to become interested in new things.
My friend Cliff Kimble is nearing retirement as a construction foreman.  And while he may no longer be overseeing the construction of light rail stations here in Denver, he is far from finished …

As this career advice blog’s readership has grown, I get more and more requests from people who want to do a guest post.  Mark Davies is one such guy.  Mark writes about on line Masters Degree programs.  He understands the career success challenges young professionals face.  Here is a guest post he has written that provides life and career success advice for young professionals.  Enjoy…
Dos and Don’ts for Young Professionals’ Life and Career Success
It’s a process that we all go through – we start out with school, go on to college, and then find a …

The other day I came across a great career advice article by Seth Simonds called “Five Simple Ways to Live a Life You Love.”  Seth nails it when it comes to life and career success.  You can see the entire article at http://bit.ly/ijup45.
Here are Seth’s five points…
1. Be Present
2. Practice Gratefulness
3. Pursue Balance
4. Nurture Friendships
5. Embrace Simplicity
These five points are not only great life advice, they will help you create the career success you want and deserve.  Seth and I think alike.  I address many of the points he makes in my latest career success coach book, Success Tweets. 
Here is my …