This is the third in a series of posts further explaining the ideas in my new book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice All in 140 Characters or Less.  The book is at the printer right now.  I’m told that I will have the printed copies in my hand by the end of the week.  Next week I’ll give away a few copies on this blog. 
Here is some career advice from Tweet 3…
Think of your purpose as your personal mission; why you are on this earth.  Your direction is your vision …

This is the second in a series of posts further explaining the ideas in my new book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice All in 140 Characters or Less.  The book is at the printer right now.  I’m told that I will have the printed copies in my hand by the end of the week.  Next week I’ll give away a few copies on this blog. 
Here is some career advice from Tweet 2…
The more clear you are about what success means to you personally, the easier it will be to create …

My new book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice All in 140 Characters or Less, is at the printer right now.  I’m told that I will have the printed copies in my hand by the end of the week.  Next week I’ll give away a few copies on this blog.  I’ve decided that I am going to devote my next 140 career success coach blog posts explaining each of the tweets in the book in detail. 
Today is Tweet 1…
Define exactly what life and career success mean to you.  It’s easier to …

As a career success coach I’m always looking for new ways to get my message across to people who want to create a successful life and career.  My new book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Success Advice…All in 140 Characters or Less has just gone to the printer.  I’ve been tweeting about career success, so I decided to turn my tweets into a book. 
Success Tweets is based on the career success advice in my Career Success GPS system.  It focuses on my 4Cs of success model: clarity of purpose and direction; commitment to …

Did you watch the NCAA men’s basketball championship game last night?  As you know from reading yesterday’s post, I was solidly in the Butler camp.  They lost 61 – 59 to Duke, but they can hold their heads high.   It was one of the best NCAA championship games I’ve ever seen.
Many people thought Butler coach Brad Stevens was a little nuts for giving up a good, well paying job with Eli Lilly to sign on as a volunteer assistant coach at Butler several years ago.  Yet there he was last night, coaching in college basketball’s …

March Madness ends tonight – even if it is April 5.  I saw in the paper that a little over 1,400 of the 4.8 million people who submitted completed brackets to ESPN picked Butler and Duke to be in the final game.  That’s 0.03%.  I had it half right.  I picked Duke to beat Kansas in the championship game – and I’m not even a Duke fan.  I’ve been unhappy with Duke ever since they denied admission to a young woman I think of as a niece – who went on to Princeton and is …

Jim Collins is on the cover of the April 2010 SUCCESS Magazine.  He is the author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fail.  In my book, he’s a thought leader.  Since I’m a career success coach, and he writes about success, I pay attention.  By the way, the April issue of SUCCESS is terrific.  The folks at SUCCESS just keep getting better.  If you’re not already a subscriber, I suggest you go to www.Success.com and subscribe as soon as you finish reading this post.  Trust me on this one.  I am after all, …

I was reading the February 2010 issue of The Costco Connection – I love their store and I love their member mag.  There was an article on ING Direct, an on line bank.  I’ve been an ING depositor for over 10 years.  They give great service.
The color orange is part of their brand.  The Orange Code is the ING Direct company constitution.  It 1s 12 common sense points for running a business.  However, as the Denver Career Success Coach, I couldn’t help but notice that the Orange Code can easily be adapted to individual career …

Yesterday I wrote a post in which I quoted George Bernard Shaw, my favorite playwright.  I showed how his words related to two of the four pillars of my Common Sense Success System: clarity of purpose and direction, and commitment to taking personal responsibility for your life and success. 
After I wrote the post, I came across a Japanese proverb…
Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
“Great,” I thought.  “Another twofer.”  And a twofer on the same two pillars – clarity and commitment. 
“Vision without action is a daydream” goes to the heart of …

Yesterday, I quoted George Bernard Shaw in my post.  He is one of my very favorite playwrights.  I always enjoy a production of one of his plays.  Today, I’d like to quote him again, as he makes such a great point about how important a personal clarity of purpose and direction is to your career and life success.
“This is the true joy in life; being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the …