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 …

If you read this blog with any regularity, you probably know that I am a rugby football enthusiast.  I think it is a great sport.  I played for over 30 years.  I learned a lot about life on the rugby pitch.  I think I am a better career success coach as a result of my participation in rugby.  In my retirement, I support youth rugby. 
The other day, I got a note from Bill Baer, a friend and coach of the Denver East High School Rugby Club, the reigning Colorado High Schools Rugby State Champions.  Since …

Positive personal impact is one of the keys to career success that is part of my Career Success GPS System.  As a career success coach, I help my clients create positive personal impact.  I discuss in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Star Power, I Want YOU…To Succeed, Your Success GPS and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success. 
I’m always telling my clients that if they want to create positive personal impact, they need to do three things: 1) create, build and nurture their personal brand; 2) dress for success; and 3) know …

The Olympics are over.  I enjoyed watching them over the past two weeks.  The last sporting event of this year’s games, the USA – Canada hockey game, was really something.  I hope you got a chance to see it.  Even though my home team lost it was an exciting, well played match that went into overtime.  I also tuned into the closing ceremonies last night.  I saw something there that I want to comment on in today’s post.
If you recall, at the opening ceremonies there was a problem with the torch lighting.  The cauldron was …

Relationship building is one of the four keys to career success in my Career Success GPS System.  I discuss it in detail in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success, Star Power, I Want YOU…To Succeed, Your success GPS, and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  As a career success coach, I am always reminding my clients that they must build strong, long lasting mutually beneficial relationships with the important people in their lives. 
Unfortunately, no human relationship is without conflict.  That’s why you have to become adept at resolving conflict positively.
I know a …