Did you see the Dallas – Miami basketball game last night?  If you’re not a basketball fan, Dallas and Miami are playing for the NBA Championship.  It was quite a game and one in which I found some career success advice. 
The game was played in Miami, in front of a loud home town crowd.  Miami was winning  88 – 73 with about seven minutes to play.  Dallas won 95 – 93.  They scored 22 points to Miami’s five in the last seven minutes of the game.  They even survived a monumental defensive lapse that let …

For me, the Memorial Day weekend is more than a US holiday and the unofficial start of summer.  Memorial Day weekend is always the middle weekend of the French Open — one of the four tennis majors.   If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that I often find career advice in sporting events.  This year’s French Open presents another opportunity to connect career success with sports.
One of the biggest upsets so far this year was Kim Clijsters loss in the second round to Arantxa Rus, the 114th ranked player in the world.  …

I saw a great tweet the other day – “Smiling is environmentally friendly.”  It reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from Mother Teresa, “Peace begins with a smile.”  There is great career advice in this tweet and this quote.
I always advise my career success coach clients to smile.  Smiling makes you a more likeable person.  It helps you create positive personal impact.  Positive personal impact is really important if you want to create the life and career success you want and deserve.
I travel a lot, so I often get upgraded to first class.  I …

Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan.
Earthquake in New Zealand, where I have some good friends.
Bloody violence in Lybia.
It’s been a depressing few weeks – for me at least. 
It’s times like this that make me glad I’m an optimist.
No career advice in today’s post – just a reprint of The Optimist Creed – something that helps me cope with days and weeks like these…
The Optimist Creed
Promise Yourself:

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there …

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 …

Billie Sucher and I have coauthored a new career success book, Success Tweets for Finding a Job and Excelling in It.  We’re proud of it.  You can get your copy on Amazon.com.  It’s another of my writings on the topic of life and career success.  I think it is a great companion piece to Success Tweets.
Billie is really creative; that’s why I enjoyed working with her on Success Tweets for Finding a Job and Excelling in It.  Over the holidays, she did a talk on hope – one of my favorite subjects.  I’m an eternal …

While this is a career advice blog, I cover a variety of topics.  Sports can teach us many life and career success lessons.  So today, I want to discuss an NFL game that happened last night.
If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that I’m a Pittsburgh guy, a big American Football fan and an even bigger Pittsburgh Steelers fan.  Last night, the Steelers played the Baltimore Ravens.  It was a tough, brutal game. 
The Ravens broke Steelers quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger’s nose the first time the Steelers had the ball.  The report from the …

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 100.  It is the last tweet in a series on …

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 95…
Get into a high performance mindset.  Don’t question yourself.  Trust …

I’m still enjoying writing this series of posts on the career advice in my latest book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less.  I hope you are enjoying reading them.  You can purchase a copy of Success Tweets at Amazon.com or your local bookstore – or you can get a free copy of the eBook at www.SuccessTweets.com.
Today’s career success coach post is on Tweet 58…
Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.  Help all people recognize that they are special.
This …