Author: Brad Stanton

  • Failures can help you

    Your resume reflects the very best of everything you have done, all your many strengths, accomplishments and successes. But what does your anti-resume look like? All your weaknesses, failures and disappointments. These are things that probably only you know about, things that you would have never discussed with your parents, friends or colleagues. The jobs…

  • Your words are powerful

    You were born right I saw a study that said children are born with a good self-image, but due to all the scoldings and criticisms they get throughout life, their self-image becomes poorer as the years go by. School can be very rough on many children’s self-image because it is almost impossible to do any…

  • Are you discouraged?

    Many years ago I took a boat from Macau to Hong Kong in the South China Sea. Due to a typhoon that had passed by not long before that, I delayed the trip for a whole day, hoping that the sea would be smooth by the time I left. It wasn’t. Luckily I was in…

  • Optimist vs pessimist

    A shoe salesman was sent to a country where no one wore shoes. He arrived there, looked around and immediately asked his company to send him back home. “I can’t sell shoes here!” He said. “No one wears them.” The next shoe salesman the company sent arrived at the same location. He looked around and…

  • Ideas for a better life

    Click to read some ideas for a better life. Many people write books about this, but I found some ideas from Brian Tracy who is one of the top experts on this subject. click here