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 …

My new career success coach book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less is turning out to be quite a hit.  Over 2,000 people have downloaded the free eBook version and several people have purchased multiple copies of the hard copy book.  I think it’s a great addition to my career advice writings.  Go to www.SuccessTweets.com to get a .pdf of Success Tweets for free. 
Today’s career advice comes from Tweet 131…
Be happy to see others succeed.  Use the success of others to motivate you to greater …

My latest career success coach book, Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less is about to go into its third printing.  That really pleases me.  It has become a greater success than I thought it would be.  I’m glad that people are finding its career advice to be helpful.  You can pick up a copy of Success Tweets at your local bookstore or at Amazon.com.  Better yet, you can download it for free at www.SuccessTweets.com. 
I’m in the home stretch of a series of blog posts that …

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 59…
Give so much time to building your self confidence and improving yourself that you have not time to criticize others.
This tweet has …

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 …