I read USA Today when I travel. Most hotels deliver it to my room. Sometimes I find some great career success advice in it. That was the case last Thursday. The front page of the Sports section had an article entitled “Athlete Tweets Often Create Grief.”
The article quotes Gil de Zuniga of the University of Texas Journalism School…
“The misuse of Twitter is due to a lack of understanding of the power of social media. If you were in the middle of a public square, you wouldn’t yell something you might …

I had a conversation with a prospective new client the other day.  It went particularly well.  It appears as if I will get some significant new consulting business as a result.  As I thought about the conversation that evening, I realized that I followed my own career success advice as presented in Tweets 106 and 107 in my career advice book, Success Tweets.
Tweet 106 says, “Demonstrate your understanding of others’ points of view.  Listen well and ask question if you don’t understand.”  Tweet 107 says, “Become an excellent conversationalist by listening more than speaking.  Pay …

Greetings from Dublin.  I’m here today and tomorrow working with one of my corporate clients.  I’ll be in the UK Wednesday, Thursday and Friday working with the same client but at a different location.
I’m sure by now you know that I want you to create the life and career success you want and deserve.  That’s why I write this career advice blog even when I’m traveling outside the USA.  It’s also why when I find a great career success resource I pass it on to you.  Careerealism is a great career success resource.  I am …

I’m not a big one for jargon, so when I received this guest post from Raine Parker on Hedonic Treadmill Theory, I was tempted to ignore it.  However, it actually contains some great career advice about how to create your life and career success by conquering your fears by taking action. 
I devoted four tweets in my latest career success book Success Tweets to action.  Tweet 48 sums up my thoughts on action.  “Procrastination is the physical manifestation of fear and is a confidence killer.  Act: especially when you’re afraid.”
Raine Parker says that Hedonic Treadmill Theory …

It’s February — National Self Esteem Month in the USA.  Self esteem goes hand in hand with self confidence – one four keys to life and career success that I discuss in my latest career advice book Success Tweets.   Self confidence and self esteem are so important to your life and career success, that I devoted 20 of the 141 tweets in Success Tweets to them.
If you want to become self confident you need to do three things.  First, choose optimism.  Believe that today will be better than yesterday and that tomorrow will be better …

I have a huge library of career advice books.  One of them is called Mentor: The Kid and The CEO, by Tom Pace.  Mr. Pace is a member of the National Speakers Association.  He sent me and other members a complimentary copy of Mentor with a unique guarantee.  “I want to extend you a personal guarantee; which is if you read my book and believe it to be a waste of your time, then I will personally give you $100.  I read the book and have no plans for asking Mr. Pace to send me …

Did you watch the State of the Union address last night?  The theme was “winning the future.”  As I watched I couldn’t help but think that there is some great career advice in those words.  We all need to win our individual future career success.
President Obama closed his speech last night saying that in America “we do big things.”  If you want to create the life and career success you want and deserve, you need to do big things too.
To do big things, you have to be an optimist.  Tweet 42 in my latest career success …

I was reading the February 2011 issue of SUCCESS Magazine yesterday, a great career success resource.  I saw some great career advice from Jackie Chan.  He said, “Surrounding myself with talented people helps me tap into my own creativity.”  As I’ve said, I think this is great life and career success advice.
Before I go any further, let me remind you that SUCCESS is a great magazine, full of really important career advice.  If you’re not already subscribed I suggest you go to www.Success.com and do so as soon as you finish reading the career advice …

As usual, the January 2011 issue of SUCCESS Magazine has some great life and career success advice.  Are you a subscriber?  If not, I suggest you subscribe to this great print mag as soon as you finish reading this post.
In an article entitled “The 6 Deadly Fears of Entrepreneurship” Beth Douglass Silcox lists six fears common to entrepreneurs.  I think these six fears apply to everyone – not just entrepreneurs.  Take a look…

Fear of Failure
Fear of Inadequacy
Fear of Risks
Fear of Financial Insecurity
Fear of What Others Will Think
Fear of Growth

Before we go on, let me say …

The first week of 2011 is almost history.  Hope is was productive for you and brought you closer to the life and career success you want and deserve.
Last Friday (New Year’s Eve) one of my friends who reads my career advice and knows I am an incurable optimist repeated something that he had seen on line…
An optimist stays up to welcome the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year goes out.
I admit that I have had a few years (but not too many) that I was happy to see …