Start Out Right Congratulations - you got the job. Uh ... now what? These days, employers expect new employees to "hit the ground running," especially new management and executive employees. With your enthusiasm for taking on this new challenge, it's tempting to bounce into work and start making suggestions, planning projects, shaking things up, creating change. You may even think this is what you were hired to do. After all, in the interview they asked questions about self-starting, initiative, new ...

This is an actual job application that a 75 year old senior citizen submitted to Walmart in Arkansas. They hired him because he was so funny….. NAME: Kenneth Way (Grumpy Old Bastard) SEX: Not lately, but I am looking for the right woman (or at least one who will cooperate) DESIRED POSITION: Company’s President or Vice President. But seriously, what ever’s available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn’t be applying here in the first place DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 ...

I remember it clearly. My mother used to say "Stefanie did you send so and so a thank you note?" She would say, “it's so and so's birthday, anniversary, graduation . . . “, fill in the blank. If there was something going on in someone’s life, she believed it warranted a personal phone call or a lovely handwritten note. I used to complain and whine about it, but in retrospect it was some of the ...

Luck is a state of mind. People who are lucky, people who think of themselves as lucky tend to think and behave in different ways than those who think of themselves as unlucky. Our thinking and acting may cause us to experience serendipitous events in some areas of our lives and to experience seeming obstacles in other areas. Changing the way we think may change our experience instantly. For example, many years ago, a friend ...