A unique and distinctive personal brand is a big part of creating positive personal impact and your life and career success.  However, there is one thing that I believe that should be a part of everyone’s personal brand – integrity. 
Tweet 62 in my latest career success book Success Tweets says it well.  “Your personal brand should be uniquely you, but built on integrity.  Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking.”
I get a daily meditation from my friends at The Walk the Talk Company.  You can get one too by going to …

I work hard to make this the best career advice blog on the internet.  I write most of the posts myself.  Lately however, I’ve had requests from several people to write guests posts.  I don’t accept all of them, and I believe that the ones I do accept provide exceptional life and career success advice.
This post is a little different.  I am on Dee Dukehart’s email list.  Last week she posted an article on communication skills and career success.   I thought it was so good that I asked Dee if I could use it as …

As this career advice blog has grown in popularity, I’ve gotten more and more requests from people who want to do guest posts.  I think this is great.  It’s always good to get a variety of perspectives on career success.
This career advice guest post is a little different from others that have appeared here in the past.  I’m hosting day six of The 10 Commandments of Leadership Blog Tour, by WalkTheTalk.com.
For 10 days 10 different blogs are highlighting each of The 10 Commandments of Leadership.  I was pleased to be asked to be a host.  Walk …

Strong, mutually beneficial relationships are an important key to life and career success.  If you want to create the career success you want and deserve you need to become good at relationship building.  Tweet123 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “Use every social interaction to build and strengthen relationships.  Strong relationships are your ticket to career success.”
Making regular deposits into the emotional bank accounts you have with those around you is a great way to begin building relationships.  I first became aware of the concept of an emotional bank account about 20 years …

Dynamic communication is one of the keys to career success that I discuss in my latest career advice book Success Tweets.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, you need to master three basic communication skills: conversation, writing and presenting.
Stephen King is one of my favorite authors.  I once saw a quote from him that is some of the best career advice on communication you’ll ever come across.  “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Stephen’s words apply to each of …

Ron Howard and I are about the same age.  I remember him as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show.  I’ve followed his road to career success since then.  I think he is a fantastic director.
Not too long ago, I saw an interview with Ron Howard in which he discussed the importance of focus.  He said that he works hard to identify the most important task he has every day, and then to do whatever he needs to do to accomplish that task.  This is great common sense career advice.
I give some similar career advice on …

Lifelong learning is an important key to your career success.  I was speaking with my aunt, Sister Mary Eligia Dworakowski, over the holidays.  She is 91 and in a wheel chair.  As we were finishing our conversation, I asked her what she was planning on doing that afternoon.  She told me that she is studying French and was planning on spending a couple of hours with her tapes.
91 years old and still learning – good for you, Sister.
Tweet 82 in my career success book Success Tweets says, “Learn faster than the world changes.  In a …

Tiger Woods almost won a golf tournament a little over a week ago.  It would have been his first win in over a year – and his first win since his infidelities became public.  I was a huge Tiger fan, and I still like him as a golfer.  So I was actually hoping he would win.  He lost.
The Monday following that tournament, I spoke with several people I know who follow golf. Their reactions were interesting…
“I don’t really care how Tiger plays anymore.”
“I hope he never wins another tournament.”
“I’m sick of hearing about him.  I …

When I tell people that I am a career success coach, I often get the response, “Oh you help people with handling organizational politics.”  My answer is, “No. I how people how to create the life and career success they want and deserve.
However, I realize that politics are part of work — and career success.  You can’t escape them.  The other day, I came across ten pieces of great career advice on office politics on the Ms. Career Girl site.  I’m sharing them here…
How to Deal With Office Politics
Every workplace has the shroud of office politics. There …

I am a career success coach.  While I think I know a lot about what it takes to create the life and career success you want and deserve, there are lots of people out there with some great career advice.  That’s the case with my friends at GTD Agenda.  The other day, they sent me a great article on improving your personal productivity. 
Improving your personal productivity will lead to outstanding performance.  And, as I point out in Success Tweets, outstanding performance is one of the keys to your career success.
Check out what the GTD Agenda …