Curiosity didn’t kill the cat it helped her create the life and career success she deserves. Successful people are curious. They want to learn everything they can about the important things that affect their life and career success. Be curious. Learn something new as often as you can. Put these learnings to work in your life and career and you’ll succeed. I guarantee it – after all it’s only common sense.

Successful people are lifelong learners. They continually expand their knowledge in order to get out in front of the pack and stay there. They follow the career advice in Tweet 82 in Success Tweets. “Learn faster than the world changes. In a world that never stops changing, you can never stop learning and growing.” Begin your lifelong learning journey by focusing on your strengths and working to improve them every day. Building on your strengths is easier than overcoming your weaknesses. When you build on your strengths you can make incremental improvements. However, if you have a glaring gap in your skills, address it now. Don’t wait to take necessary quantum leaps. What do you need to learn to create the life and career success you want and deserve? How do you plan on learning it? Remember what Ben Franklin had to say, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

David Rockefeller provides some great career advice when he says, “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” Here’s my take on what he has to say. Keep learning and growing – that way you won’t stagnate. Discipline yourself to take on difficult tasks and to do the things that other people won’t do. Care about your job. Demonstrate how much you care by working hard – every day.

If you read this career success blog with any regularity you know that I am The Common Sense Guy.  I help people create the life and career success they want and deserve by showing them how to apply their common sense to build their careers.
I was reading the August 2011 issue of The Costco Connection the other day, and was struck by a column written by Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Cookies and Uncle Wally’s Muffin Company.  This particular column was entitled “Common Sense,” so it immediately grabbed my attention.
Here’s what Wally had to …

The other day I was rereading a great little career advice book from Sam Parker and my friends at Walk the Talk.  It’s called 212: The Extra Degree.  The back cover says it all…
At 211 degrees, water is hot.
At 212 degrees, it boils.
And with boiling water comes steam.
And with steam you can power a train.
The career advice here is simple common sense.  An extra degree can yield extraordinary results.  212: The Extra Degree is a gift book.  It is a perfect gift for the graduate you know.  You can get it at www.WalktheTalk.com.Here is some …

The July issue of SUCCESS Magazine is out.  As usual, it is filled with some great life and career success advice.  If you’re not already a SUCCESS subscriber, I suggest you go to http://www.success.com and do so as soon as you finish reading this post.
I was struck by an article in this month’s SUCCESS about Jenni Flinders, VP of Microsoft’s US Partner Group.  The article begins with some great career advice…“Jenni Flinders believes in being a learner, not a knower.”
Tweet 81 in Success Tweets, my career advice book says, “Become a lifelong learner.  The half-life …

Last week I got an email from Scott Dinsmore that hit on two of my favorite pieces of common sense career advice: 1) find your passion in life, and 2) become a lifelong learner.  Scott did a great job of tying the two together.  Take a look at what he has to say…
I can guarantee you find your passion. I can guarantee you do work you love.
Don’t believe me? Then you probably aren’t ready to work your ass off.
If you are, then read on.
When I tell people I write and coach on how to find …

I was walking through Denver International Airport the other day and I saw an ad for the Daniels School of Business at the University of Denver.  It said, “In five years, business will be dependent on technology that has yet to be invented: Frightening, or Inspiring?”  That got me thinking about how fast things change these days. 
This means that in order to continue to stay technically competent and one the road to career success, you have to be learning all the time.  Tweet 81 in my career success book Success Tweets says, “Become a lifelong …

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 …

I’m really enjoying writing this series of posts further explaining the ideas in my latest career success coach book, Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less.  I hope you’re enjoying reading them.  I’m pleased to say that Success Tweets is now in its second printing.  You can pick up a copy at your local book store, or online at Amazon.com.  Better yet, you can download the eBook for free at http://www.successtweets.com.
Today’s career advice comes from Tweet 90…
Positive time management is an important habit to develop.  Habits …