The last six weeks have been a blur. I’ve neglected my blog… As well as many other things in my life. But I’ve also had some really amazing things happen… And one special opportunity that I wanted to share. It all started back in January… I set a goal to make $1000 / month of [...]

Angela Maiers has been someone that I’ve looked up to for a long time now.  She’s one of those people that is so passionate about what she’s doing, you can’t help but get excited when you hear her talk. Tomorrow (Monday) I’ll be speaking with her to the students at the University of Northern Iowa [...]

I’ve been doing a handful of speaking events lately.  The last few I spoke at, I was the youngest person in the room.  And at the end of the month, I’ll be giving a presentation to 1000+ people in our company.  For presentations like these, our company rarely asks people under the age of 30 [...]

Last week my friend Jaclyn wrote a tweet that said:  Is it possible for ambitious people to be comfortable?  That short sentence really got me thinking… Do ambitious people become satisfied?  And if they do, how does that affect their work habit? Do things ever slow down? At this point, I feel like most of [...]

(This post was written for a contest on Talent Buzz.  Please click here to help increase the post’s rank. ) 80% of jobs are gotten through networking.  Unless you plan on staying in your city forever… you should be making friends online. And that doesn’t mean creating a Facebook profile. Traditional social networks (Facebook/LinkedIn/MySpace) are [...]

I had to share this video.  It’s pretty funny.  Mostly becuase it’s so true.   The economy sucks…  but at least we don’t have rotary phones anymore.  

When I ask people why they don’t blog I always get one of two responses:   “I don’t know what to write about.” “Nobody would want to read my stuff.” If that is you, watch this short clip from Seth Godin.  You’ll see why blogging is about more than just the number of people who read [...]

I spoke with Dan Erwin last week.  He has spent years researching neuroscience and training/coaching executives from all over the world.  We had such an interesting conversation, I asked Dan to write a guest post about how constant change affects people in the corporate environment.      ———————- Over the past 15 years, research in neuroscience [...]

This article is joking, right? —– Faced with a dismal market for college summer internships, a growing number of anxious parents are pitching in to help — by buying their kids a foot in the door. Some are paying for-profit companies to place their college students in internships that are mostly unpaid. Others are hiring [...]

I watched an episode of House last week. There was a scenario where Wilson told someone they only had six months left to live. Three months later, he called the patient into his office… Fortunately, his diagnosis was wrong. The patient didn’t actually have a tumor. He was healthy. Personally, I’d be ecstatic… but this [...]