When searching for a new place to work you need to take action on several opportunities at a time or else you may be let down. What if you are super excited about a job and have been working for several weeks making resumes, interviewing, etc for it; then one day you receive an…
Category: Enjoy Your Job or Start a Business
Where to Find a Job You Like
Go to the video at the bottom first, the little girl is so cute. In the past, we looked for work at a place that was hiring. Not now, you have to take control of the situation if you want to feel secure in your job. You should find a place where you enjoy working…
Help Me I Hate My Job
In the previous post I talked about overcoming your job fears. Now it is time to take the next step to find the job you love. Now that you have overcome the fear You need to clearly define why you want to leave your current job. It has to be a strong reason because it…
Top 5 Fears of Finding a New Job and How to Overcome Them
There are many reasons you want to get a new job; what is holding you back from looking? I don’t think it is kryptonite. Most likely a subtle fear keeping you from finding the work you love. Let’s dig into this, and see if you can overcome some of these fears and then you can…
Become a Meeting Superhero
I love meetings. I get the opportunity to stop important work and hurry to get to a room which the meeting leader is 15 minutes late. Then to make up for the time lost, the meeting lasts 30 minutes longer. Wait, I am a liar. I hate meetings. Contrary to popular belief, meetings can be valuable, but…
Become an Ebay Superhero
My buddy, Raun, has been doing awesome at growing his income on Ebay. I have always been intrigued by people who do well on Ebay so I asked him to teach me. Below is the interview. Where do you sell your products? I sell in a few different places. I sell on Ebay (Username:…
Become A Getting Things Done Superhero by Working Less
Many people talk about saying “no” to a lot of things so you have time to do the important things. I agree with this, but I want to expand on it a bit. I create time boundaries. I realize that time spent working and the results I create are mostly independent of each other. I also…
Thoughts of A Recovering Engineer
Through my working career I have always watched what works well and what does not, while making mistakes and learning along the way. In addition, I am a personal development junkie and anything I learn I use it to make my job easier. No matter what I am doing I always need the help of others. There…
“I hate my job” Creates Road Rage
Have you ever gotten angry while driving? Was it on the way to work? I have. While driving to work every day I notice people cutting in and out of traffic, speeding up just to hit the breaks again. Everybody is in a hurry. Why don’t these people leave for work a little earlier? Could…
No Free Coaching
I love helping people. I hate helping people that don’t do anything with what I give them. I have learned that giving things away for free rarely works. I have tried coaching for free (for learning) and I was stood up two times in a row by the same person. To combat this I put…
How to Get a Job With One Phone Call
I was living in Knoxville, TN (in 2008) and was looking for a job in Kansas City, my home town. I found several companies I was interested in working for and began calling them. Notice I did not start by searching for open positions. I was called and asked if someone would talk to me about the…
Do You Understand This Advertisement?
When I saw this advertisement I thought “how clever”, then I wondered how many people understand it. Being a chemical engineering nerd I know that Au is the atomic symbol for gold, but how many other people know it. This led me to think about advertising in general. If you are going to be advertising anything you…
Working With a VA
I am in the process of writing a workbook to help husbands communicate with their wives their want to start a business. I am great at regurgitating information, but I am not great at grammar, punctuation, etc. To help this, I hired a friend to review it for me. I learned a lot from this experience, and…
Getting Your Spouse On Board: The Lizard Strikes Again
I have been working on my book, and I recently had a proofreader review it. I had some resistance to giving it to him but I knew it was my lizard brain. I was afraid of criticism. The funny thing is that part of my day job is having my work reviewed, but for some…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Not So Super Waiter
I am always looking for the lesson to take away from a bad situation. This helps me find the positive in everything. Last Saturday Andrea, some friends, and I went out to Lidia’s. Andrea has been wanting to go for so long and she was super excited. The long and the short of it was…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Super Car Repair
I know a little bit about car repair but I don’t have much patience, time, or the tools for much of it. About a year ago Andrea was having trouble starting her car and it was beyond my ability to fix it. James Dibben recommended Spillman Auto Service which he used to take all of his business’s vehicles for repair.…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Super Home Sales
This is a continuation of the Super Customer Loyalty Series. My wife and I wanted to purchase a home in Tennessee in 2007. I began talking to friends and one recommended Susannah Dunn. The main thing that sold me was her willingness to jump right in and get dirty serving her customer. My friend, who recommended her, mentioned her…
Super Customer Loyalty Series-Bad Bank
I was reviewing some notes and I found something referring back to a April 2011 Success Magazine article about customer loyalty by Erin Casey (pg 26 if you are looking). In rereading the article, I remembered why I made the note, I completely disagreed with one statement: “Customer loyalty isn’t dead, at the very least it is…
Superpowers at Work
As a superhero you need to be willing to make the world a better place. This includes where you work. If you don’t like something at work, don’t go back everyday wondering why someone doesn’t do something about it. You do something about it. Here is an example of something I want to change at…
I Do What I Want
I am continuing to make changes to this website. I feel that I am able to cover more varied topics since living intentionally can encompass so many situations. I want to share some of the things I am doing to live intentionally and share my thoughts about it. Also, I have so much experience in manufacturing and…