Tag Archive from: relationship
End Your Relationship With Facebook? Really?
This morning, I’m waking up to all of the messages about ending one’s relationship with Facebook. Yesterday, I led the last installment of Inspired Social Networking and was telling our participants that we now live in the world of transparency. The tipping point for sexual harrassment happened because of […]
How Do You Make A Wildly Successful Career Transition?
Mel Spiese devoted his entire life to doing the right thing. He grew up in a very loving and supportive family and yet, they didn’t push him to excel. So, he didn’t. As college approached, he walked into an ROTC office and realized they offered the possibility of becoming someone […]
Self-Help – Built By Cheats, Charlatans & Used-Car Salesmen
When my first book was published, I had a struggle with my publisher because they wanted to put The Truth About Work into the self-help category. I don’t know one truly successful person who practices self help. In fact, when a talented individual tells me they are failing, it is usually because […]
Don’t Ever Go to Single Friends for Relationship Advice!
Years ago, I came down with a minor illness that required my hiding at home. It didn’t kill me but at one point I told God, “I wouldn’t mind.” While I was at this low point, my office sent over the mail and on the top of the stack was […]
Is Information Overload Making Us Nuts? It has for thousands of years.
People don’t run out of dreams – people just run out of time. Glenn Frey – The Eagles In 1970, my hero, the brilliant futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that by the turn of the century, we would be in continual information overload. This has come to pass. Today, we […]
The Great Political Failure of Work
There has never been a more important time for the workers of America to discover the vast opportunities to make new and better livings. Today, it is easier to start a business, find the “dream job,” and to do work that is far more interesting. In fact, for many, doing […]
The One Truth That I Know For Sure
For years, Oprah Winfrey featured an annual episode where leaders would share the one thing they knew with certainty. Here’s mine: Every single one of us comes into this world with a unique purpose. Until we find that purpose, to varying degrees, we suffer. Our unique role in […]
No Matter Where You Are, This Will Make Your Day Better
We all have them. Life is sailing along and then we encounter a real clunker of a day. There is a solution that doesn’t require leaving one’s computer. As the owner of Inspired Work, the recession introduced quite a few difficult days. I began evaluating ways to rebuild […]
Does Your Tribe Support You or Own You?
We were delivering an especially large Inspired Work Program. After the first lunch, a group of men came walking in together. They were laughing. They had come up with the “Jewish Mother’s Hierarchy of Acceptable Career Choices.”This narrow range of possibilities was based on how one mother’s eyebrows responded when the […]
Einstein Draws a Circle and I Don’t Know My Ass From a Hole in the Ground
This morning, someone close to me said the two most valuable phrases a person can say are, “I need help” and “I don’t know.” When I started leading The Inspired Work Program in 1990, I was thrown into an existential crisis. Growing up with a white-male-pissed-off God had given […]