Are you getting closer to achieving your ambitions everyday? Are you doing something to get yourself closer or hoping someone will notice how good you are at waiting for your turn?

If you’re serious about your goals, big or small, there’s a word you need to cut out of your vocabulary. Failure.

When you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to reach a goal and you hit brick wall after brick wall after brick wall, you may decide continuing with the effort is simply a waste of time and energy.

The resume of someone just entering the workforce is a very different thing from the resume of someone with twenty years behind them. Each of those people bring different experiences and expectations to the job market and that’s reflected in their resume.

Some days are so great you wish they could last forever, but then there are other days. The ones where you just can’t get anything to go right. When you feel so worn out and unmotivated, all you want is a full stop.   Sometimes those days can last for weeks or months. Like when you’re trying to get something accomplished and you keep running into walls and detours. Some people will give in to the temptation to stop or turn around or hand the situation over to someone else.     Before you do that, push the re-set button. Remind yourself why…

No matter how well or less well you feel like your interview went, it’s important to always follow it up by thanking your interviewer.

When they teach you to drive they tell you to point your eyes in the direction you want to go. Same things goes for your mind. Set it in the direction of your goals and aspirations and with your foot on the gas, the time will fly by.

It’s seems like all of us live in a world of filled with no free time. Like we’re always late for something, or in the middle of something, or feeling guilty about not doing something else.

There is only one way to know for sure that something is impossible. That’s if you don’t try to find out!

You know that if you’re going to be in the employment game you need a solid LinkedIn profile. So you did your homework, figured out exactly what to include, posted it then allowed it to use your address book to start populating it. Job done. Right? Wrong.

Why do some people have an extra bounce in their step? What gives them that extra shot of energy in the morning that others can’t achieve no matter how many cups of coffee they manage to consume?

Welcome to your first day of work! From figuring out the best route to take to work, to getting acquainted with your new workspace, to the barrage of new faces you might be feeling overwhelmed.

Getting rejected following a job interview is hard. But you have to remember, it happens to everybody. Here are some tips to help you deal with that rejection.

The drive, dedication and persistence that nourished the ambitions of seventeen year old Steven Spielberg are the same things that drive him today. That’s why what he does never gets old.

Sometimes we’ll see someone who looks like they have everything; enough money in the bank, people who love and admire them, a certain joie de vivre and on top of everything else they’re modest and grateful. They’re courteous and appreciative of so much. You might think they’re grateful because they’re happy, but it might just be the other way around. There’s a really good chance they’re happy because they’re grateful.

Often times the biggest most important things on our to-do lists are the ones that end up not getting done. We put them off day after day because they’re big and they feel complicated and difficult and we never feel like we have enough time or energy to deal with them.

Pushing through on days when you have no inclination to do anything, and holding yourself accountable. You may not become one of Time Magazine’s most influential people, but you will certainly be a driving force in your own life!

Providing helpful criticism you can make a huge difference for another person. You can redirect them if they’re veering off course, save them time, and money, and help them recognize shortcuts they may not be aware of, especially if you’re a little bit ahead of the person you’re talking to.

In the highly inspirational Ted Talk above, Drew Dudley a leadership educator talks about a regular moment in his life that he later found out had a life changing effect on someone else.

So often in life we put off the things we want to do or know we should be doing until circumstances are just right. Until the inspiration to get started hits us. Until we make contact with someone. Until something else happens first.