I am a MentorNet mentor.  MentorNet is an online service that matches mentors with college students.  It’s a great organization.  Check them out whether you are considering becoming a mentor or someone in search of a mentor.  This week I received an email from them telling me that January is National Mentoring Month.  Working with a mentor is some of the best career success advice I can give you.  Chapter 10 in my forthcoming book, Climbing the Corporate Ladder is titled “Find a Mentor to Help You Grow and Succeed.”  Climbing the Corporate Ladder will be out later this month.  I’ll be giving away copies here.

The term “mentor” comes from The Odyssey.  Before he set out to fight the Trojan War, Odysseus entrusted the care of his son Telemachus to Mentor.  The best mentors will help you learn and grow by sharing their knowledge and wisdom.  And you benefit from their experience without suffering the consequences of that experience  firsthand.

By definition, mentors are positive people.  It takes a positive person to give of himself or herself to help another learn, grow and succeed.

I have been fortunate to have had several mentors in my life and career.  All shared several key characteristics.  They all…

• Were willing to share their wisdom, knowledge, skills and expertise.
• Had a positive outlook on life.  They helped me through tough times and showed me how to find the opportunity in the difficulties I was facing.
• Were genuinely concerned about me and my success.  Besides being knowledgeable, they were empathic.
• Knew what they were doing.  I respected them for their knowledge and skills.
• Kept growing themselves.  They were curious and inquisitive.  Sometimes, the roles were reversed.  They asked what I was readingand then read the books themselves – so they could learn and we could discuss the ideas.
• Gave me direct, constructive feedback.  They held me to high standards.  They congratulated me when I met their expectations.  They corrected me when I failed to do so – but in a way where I learned what not to do the next time.
• Earned the respect of colleagues.  People highly regarded in their field or company make the best mentors.
• Sought out and valued the opinions of others.  My best mentor always told me to listen carefully to the people I disagreed with–so I might learn something.  He was right.

As the saying goes, a mentor is someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.

Do you want to find a mentor?  Just look around you.  Who are the people you admire and want to emulate?  Watch what they do and do the same.  I’ve had mentors who didn’t realize they were mentoring me.

I learned how to build a network of solid contacts by watching Maggie Watson.  I learned the rules of business etiquette and dressing for success by watching Bill Rankin.  I learned how to become a first-rate public speaker by watching Steve Roesler.  I learned how to become a trusted advisor by watching Don Nelson.  I learned how to carry myself with dignity in even the most difficult situations by watching JF and Carol Kiernan.  I learned how to become a better conversationalist by watching my wife Cathy.

The reverse is also true.  I’ve learned plenty about what not to do to build self-esteem, give performance feedback and treat people with respect and dignity from observing a few of my managers over the years.

And, I’ve found that if you want to have an acknowledged mentoring relationship, all you have to do is ask.  Go to the people you admire and tell them that you admire their judgment and would like to learn from them.  Ask if you can impose on their time to get answers to questions you have.  I have never had anyone turn me down when I’ve asked this way.

I’ve created a mentor acronym.  Look for these qualities in people you want to mentor you.  A good mentor…

M Motivates you to accomplish more than you think you can.
E Expects the best from you.
N     Never gives up on you or lets you give up on yourself.
T Tells you the truth – even when it hurts.
O Occasionally kicks your butt.
R Really cares about you and your success.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  Mentors can help you create the life and career success you want and deserve.  You can create acknowledged mentoring relationships by asking people you respect and admire to mentor you.  You can also gain the benefits of a mentoring relationship just by observing people who embody the skills and characteristics you admire and acting like they do.  The important point is that you don’t want to go it alone.  Working with a mentor can accelerate your progress towards the life and career success you want and deserve.

That’s my career advice on mentoring.  What do you think?  Please let us know by leaving a comment.  Also, please leave a comment giving a shout out to one of your mentors.  As always, thanks for reading my daily musings on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  The first gives you 140 bits of career success advice tweet style — in 140 characters or less.  The second is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership site last September.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  You can find out about the membership site by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my readers in the USA. I hope you have a great day with your family and friends and that your favorite football team wins.  But more important, I hope you take a minute to reflect on all the things for which you are thankful this year.  In these uncertain and polarized times it can be difficult to find things for which you are thankful, but if you try hard enough I’m sure you can come up some.

If you read this career advice blog with any regularity, you know that I believe an abundance mentality helps you create the life and career success you want and deserve.  David McMurtry who works for a non-profit that I support, the Go For It! Institute sent me this little poem by Karl Fuchs the other day.  I think it does a god job of capturing the essence of an abundance mentality.  Check it out…

As Thanksgiving Day rolls around,
It brings up some facts, quite profound.
We may think that we’re poor,
Feel like we are not enough, insecure,
But in truth, our riches astound.

We have friends and family we love;
We have so much more
Than they sell in a store,
We’re wealthy, when push comes to shove.

So add up your blessings, I say;
Make Thanksgiving last more than a day.
Enjoy what you’ve got;
Realize it’s a lot,
And you’ll make all your cares go away.

Well said.  This poem reminds me of the importance of coming from an abundance mentality.  I wrote a chapter in 42 Rules for Creating WE entitled “There is No Quid Pro Quo in WE.”  I’ve paraphrased some of it below…
This is a quid pro quo world: you do for me and I’ll do for you.  While there is nothing wrong in reciprocating a good deed or a favor, there is a fundamental problem with quid pro quo.  It is reactive not proactive.  Too many people wait for others to go first.  They adopt the attitude, “When and if you do for me, I’ll do for you.”  This scarcity mentality is not conducive to creating WE.  When you come from a scarcity mentality, you focus more on holding on to what you have, that on opening yourself up to what you can get.

On the other hand, giving with no expectation of return comes from a proactive abundance mentality.  When you give with no expectation of return, you are acknowledging the abundance of the universe.  You are demonstrating faith that the good you do will benefit others close to you and the world at large – and that good things will come back to you.  And that’s making Thanksgiving last more than a day is all about.

In order to demonstrate my commitment to an abundance mentality, here is a list of the what the people and things for which I am thankful this year.  Some are really important, some may seem trite, but all of them bring great joy to my life…

I am thankful for…

• Cathy, my wonderful wife.
• Cathy’s successful shoulder replacement surgery.
• The people who have supported Cathy and me as she recovers from her surgery.
• My family.
• My coaching clients, membership site members, and corporate clients for putting your trust in me.
• The people who help me run my business – Peggy Murrah, Patty Dost, Rebecca Thompson, JT O’Donnell. Bobbi Benson, Tarek Chacra.
• My coauthors, Lydia Ramsey, Chrissy Scivique, Ketty Ortega, Billie Sucher.
• My friends, too numerous to mention, but very important to my happiness.
• Teachers.
• People who labor in obscurity but do things that help others every day.
• My bicycle.
• The fact that I am lucky enough to have a warm and safe home.
• The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – especially the Broadway show numbers.
• ESPN.
• Filmmakers, Novelists and Artists for making the world a more beautiful and interesting place.
• The flowers in Washington Park in Denver.
• Colorado sunsets.
• And, very important — You, for reading my daily musings on life and career success.

The common sense career success coach point here is simple. Making Thanksgiving last more than a day comes down to your mentality – scarcity or abundance.  If you come from a scarcity mentality, you will live by quid pro quo, and perpetuate the I-centric status quo.  If you come from an abundance mentality, you will give with no expectation of return and begin to create a WE-centric world.  I choose abundance and choose to take an active part in creating in helping not only myself, but others as well.  I agree with Winston Churchill who once said, “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”  When you give with no expectation of return you will get a good life.  You’ll also get a better world; one in which we all look out for one another.

That’s the career advice I take from the idea of making Thanksgiving last more than a day.  What do you think?  Please leave a comment sharing your thoughts with us.  And as always, thanks for reading my daily musing on life and career success.  Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and friends.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  The first gives you 140 bits of career success advice tweet style — in 140 characters or less.  The second is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership site on September 1.  It’s called My Corporate Climb and is devoted to helping people create career success inside large corporations.  You can find out about the membership site by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

Today is my wife Cathy’s birthday.  I wanted to give her a little shout out here – and to tell her that I love her dearly.  But that’s not the only reason for dedicating a post in this career advice blog to her.  Cathy embodies many of the career success ideas I share here, in my talks, my career success advice books and my membership site.

Tweet 62 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “Your personal brand should be uniquely you, but built on integrity.  Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking.”  When you act with integrity, you are consistent in your actions.

Here’s a story to illustrate this point about Cathy.  She was a flight attendant for 36 years.  Seniority is a very important thing in the airline industry.  It governs how you bid for trips, positions on the airplane and vacations – almost anything important to a flight attendant’s quality of work life.

Cathy was very active in her union.  And seniority was one of the union’s most sacred principles.  A few years before she retired, Cathy’s airline made a big push into the international market.  International flights were plum assignments; they went to people with high seniority.

However, the airline realized that it would be to their advantage to have some flight attendants who spoke the language of the country to which they were flying on these international flights.  Most of the senior flight attendants in her airline, including Cathy, spoke English only.  The airline proposed putting two “language speakers” on each international flight.  These were people with less seniority, but who were bilingual.  Many people, including Cathy, were upset with this arrangement as they felt it violated the seniority concept.

Cathy used to fly from the US to London.  One day I said to her, “This whole language speaker issue doesn’t really affect you.  You fly to London; there are no language speakers on those flights.  Why do you care so much?”  She said, “I believe in the concept of seniority.  It doesn’t matter if I’m affected by language speakers.  It’s the principle of the thing.”  That’s consistency – and integrity — in action; something you should incorporate into your behavioral repetoire  if you want to create the life and career success you want and deserve.

Here’s another example.  Tweet 124 in Success Tweets says, “Everyone has something to offer.  Never dismiss anyone out of hand.  Take the initiative.  Actively build relationships.”

Cathy is the best example of someone who values every person she meets.  She is friends with everyone – the pharmacy techs where we get our prescriptions, the couple who own the dry cleaners where we do business, the supermarket checkout people and baggers, the people who work in the salon where both of us get our hair cut, the servers at the restaurants we frequent, and on and on and on.

Cathy is genuinely interested in these people.  She knows their names, their spouses’ names and their kids’ names.  She inquires about their lives.  She knows about their vacations, what grades their kids are in school and lots of other things about them – all because she values them as individuals and takes the time to get to know them.  She is one of the least judgmental people I know.

If you want to create the life and career success you deserve, take a lesson from Cathy.  Pay attention to the people around you.  You will learn a lot and your life will be richer for it.  Don’t judge people by what they do.  Get to know then as individuals.  You’ll be surprised at what you learn.

There is a side benefit to this too.  Cathy will be having shulder replacement surgery on November 1 — a by product of all those years lifitn bags into overhead bins and pushing heavy carts while gravity.  Because she takes the time to get to know people personally, they also know about her.  Come November 1, she’ll have a lot of prayers and good thoughts coming her way.

One more example – from Tweet 69 in Success Tweets.  It says, “Demonstrate respect for yourself and others in your dress.  People will notice and respond positively to you.”  How you dress says a lot about how much you respect yourself, and how much you respect other people.  You read that right.  Your attire is about respect.  If you respect yourself, you will dress well and look good.  If you respect other people, you will dress well and look good.  It’s as simple as that.

Clothes that are wrinkled, have spots from previous wearings, are too tight – or too big – and have missing buttons or undone hems characterize you as someone who doesn’t care.  Someone with little self respect.  Someone with little respect for other people.

People notice how you look.  It’s as simple as that.  So put a little thought into getting dressed each day.  Make sure that what you wear reflects the professional you are.  You don’t have to spend tons of money on your wardrobe.  But you do need to maintain it.

Cathy personifies this.  She always pays attention to what she’s wearing.  When she leaves the house she looks good.  Her clothes fit, are neat and pressed and are coordinated.  She demonstrates respect for herself and for the people she will meet that day in her attire.  I am always proud to be seen with her because she always takes pride in her appearance.

This career success coach post has been a shout out to Cathy my wife on her birthday.  She embodies much of the life and career success advice I present on this blog, in my books and talks and in my membership site.

That’s the career advice that comes from the example set by Cathy, my wife.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  I’m sure that Cathy would appreciate any birthday wishes you send her way.  I’ll pass them on to her.  And I ask that you send some good thoughts her way on November 1 the day of her shoulder replacement surgery.  As always, thanks for reading my daily thoughts on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  One is 140 bits of career advice, all in 140 characters or less.  The other is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership on   September 1.  It’s called My Corporate Climb. To celebrate the grand opening, I’m giving away a new career advice book I’ve written called I Want YOU…To Succeed in Your Corporate Climb.  You can find out about the membership site and get the career advice in I Want YOU… for free by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

Today is my wife Cathy’s birthday.  I wanted to give her a little shout out here – and to tell her that I love her dearly.  But that’s not the only reason for dedicating a post in this career advice blog to her.  Cathy embodies many of the career success ideas I share here, in my talks, my career success advice books and my membership site.

Tweet 62 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “Your personal brand should be uniquely you, but built on integrity.  Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking.”  When you act with integrity, you are consistent in your actions.

Here’s a story to illustrate this point about Cathy.  She was a flight attendant for 36 years.  Seniority is a very important thing in the airline industry.  It governs how you bid for trips, positions on the airplane and vacations – almost anything important to a flight attendant’s quality of work life.

Cathy was very active in her union.  And seniority was one of the union’s most sacred principles.  A few years before she retired, Cathy’s airline made a big push into the international market.  International flights were plum assignments; they went to people with high seniority.

However, the airline realized that it would be to their advantage to have some flight attendants who spoke the language of the country to which they were flying on these international flights.  Most of the senior flight attendants in her airline, including Cathy, spoke English only.  The airline proposed putting two “language speakers” on each international flight.  These were people with less seniority, but who were bilingual.  Many people, including Cathy, were upset with this arrangement as they felt it violated the seniority concept.

Cathy used to fly from the US to London.  One day I said to her, “This whole language speaker issue doesn’t really affect you.  You fly to London; there are no language speakers on those flights.  Why do you care so much?”  She said, “I believe in the concept of seniority.  It doesn’t matter if I’m affected by language speakers.  It’s the principle of the thing.”  That’s consistency – and integrity — in action; something you should incorporate into your behavioral repetoire  if you want to create the life and career success you want and deserve.

Here’s another example.  Tweet 124 in Success Tweets says, “Everyone has something to offer.  Never dismiss anyone out of hand.  Take the initiative.  Actively build relationships.”

Cathy is the best example of someone who values every person she meets.  She is friends with everyone – the pharmacy techs where we get our prescriptions, the couple who own the dry cleaners where we do business, the supermarket checkout people and baggers, the people who work in the salon where both of us get our hair cut, the servers at the restaurants we frequent, and on and on and on.

Cathy is genuinely interested in these people.  She knows their names, their spouses’ names and their kids’ names.  She inquires about their lives.  She knows about their vacations, what grades their kids are in school and lots of other things about them – all because she values them as individuals and takes the time to get to know them.  She is one of the least judgmental people I know.

If you want to create the life and career success you deserve, take a lesson from Cathy.  Pay attention to the people around you.  You will learn a lot and your life will be richer for it.  Don’t judge people by what they do.  Get to know then as individuals.  You’ll be surprised at what you learn.

There is a side benefit to this too.  Cathy will be having shulder replacement surgery on November 1 — a by product of all those years lifitn bags into overhead bins and pushing heavy carts while gravity.  Because she takes the time to get to know people personally, they also know about her.  Come November 1, she’ll have a lot of prayers and good thoughts coming her way.

One more example – from Tweet 69 in Success Tweets.  It says, “Demonstrate respect for yourself and others in your dress.  People will notice and respond positively to you.”  How you dress says a lot about how much you respect yourself, and how much you respect other people.  You read that right.  Your attire is about respect.  If you respect yourself, you will dress well and look good.  If you respect other people, you will dress well and look good.  It’s as simple as that.

Clothes that are wrinkled, have spots from previous wearings, are too tight – or too big – and have missing buttons or undone hems characterize you as someone who doesn’t care.  Someone with little self respect.  Someone with little respect for other people.

People notice how you look.  It’s as simple as that.  So put a little thought into getting dressed each day.  Make sure that what you wear reflects the professional you are.  You don’t have to spend tons of money on your wardrobe.  But you do need to maintain it.

Cathy personifies this.  She always pays attention to what she’s wearing.  When she leaves the house she looks good.  Her clothes fit, are neat and pressed and are coordinated.  She demonstrates respect for herself and for the people she will meet that day in her attire.  I am always proud to be seen with her because she always takes pride in her appearance.

This career success coach post has been a shout out to Cathy my wife on her birthday.  She embodies much of the life and career success advice I present on this blog, in my books and talks and in my membership site.

That’s the career advice that comes from the example set by Cathy, my wife.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  I’m sure that Cathy would appreciate any birthday wishes you send her way.  I’ll pass them on to her.  And I ask that you send some good thoughts her way on November 1 the day of her shoulder replacement surgery.  As always, thanks for reading my daily thoughts on life and career success.  I value you and I appreciate you.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, please download a free copy of my popular career advice book Success Tweets and its companion piece Success Tweets Explained.  One is 140 bits of career advice, all in 140 characters or less.  The other is a whopping 390 + pages of career advice explaining each of the common sense tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.  You’ll also start receiving my daily life and career success quotes.

PPS: I opened a membership on   September 1.  It’s called My Corporate Climb. To celebrate the grand opening, I’m giving away a new career advice book I’ve written called I Want YOU…To Succeed in Your Corporate Climb.  You can find out about the membership site and get the career advice in I Want YOU… for free by going to http://www.mycorporateclimb.

I’m still blogging about the career success coach advice in my latest book Success Tweets: 140 Bit of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less.  You can get a free copy of Success Tweets at www.SuccessTweets.com.  I’m writing about creating positive personal impact in this group of posts.

Today’s career advice comes from Tweet 63…

Be visible.  Volunteer for tough jobs.  Brand yourself as a person who can and does make significant contributions.

Being visible is a great way to create positive personal impact.  Volunteering for tough jobs is the best way to become visible.  Tough jobs usually come in two flavors – 1) things no one else wants to do, and 2) tasks in which success is not guaranteed.  Volunteering for both types of jobs will get you noticed in a positive way.  Trust me here.  This is good career advice.

Let me give you an example.  Several years ago, I was working for a very large company.  This company was committed to supporting the United Way.  Every year, they conducted a huge campaign encouraging all employees to contribute.  Running the campaign was a job no one wanted to do.  Who wants to ask their coworkers for money?

One year I volunteered to run the headquarters United Way campaign.  Actually, my boss suggested that I volunteer, so I did.  I ran a successful campaign, bringing in a higher percentage of donors and a higher absolute dollar amount than the previous year.  It was a lot of painstaking, detail work.  I also had to manage a group of other volunteers who were canvassing their departments.

What started out as something I felt I had to do turned into a great experience.  I met several senior executives in the company.  I met several influential people in New York City.  And I demonstrated my ability to manage a large, complex project and bring it to a successful conclusion.  And, I felt good about myself when I visited a couple of the agencies who were receiving funds from my company’s contributions.

I ended up getting a promotion as a direct result of running the United Way campaign.  One of the executives I met during the campaign liked what he saw in me, and offered me a position in his business unit.  I created positive personal impact (with her at least) by taking on a job no one wanted and doing a good job with it.

Taking on a job in which success is not guaranteed is also a great way to create positive personal impact  and build your personal brand.  I have a friend who took on a very difficult job when he was a Sales Manager. 

His company’s CEO had a son who was a slacker.  He had a couple of jobs within the company and had failed miserably in all of them.  My friend was asked if he would fill one of his open sales positions with the CEO’s son.  Several of his friends advised him against this – telling him that the son was not a good performer, and never would be.

My friend took on the task.  He welcomed the CEO’s son to his sales team.  He worked with him extensively.  By the time he was finished, the CEO’s son was a good performer – not a great performer, but a good one.  My friend took on a tough job, one in which success was far from guaranteed, and succeeded in it.

He created such powerful positive impact with the CEO that his career success moved rapidly.  He went from District Sales Manager, to Regional Sales Manager to VP of Sales, to the President of his business unit in the space of six or seven years. 

Some people said he was just in the right place at the right time. I think he took advantage of an opportunity that many people told him to avoid.  He created his own career success by taking on, and succeeding in, a tough job where success wasn’t guarnateed.

Stephen Covey suggests thinking of jobs in one of four ways.

• Not Important and Not Urgent
• Not Important and Urgent
• Important and Not Urgent
• Important and Urgent

Volunteering for tough jobs that no one else wants to do falls into the Important but Not Urgent bucket.  Important but not urgent tasks will give you the most payback.  We all tend to get trapped by urgency.  However, non urgent tasks that are very important to your career success, can slip through the cracks if you don’t force yourself to spend time with them.

You don’t have to volunteer for every tough job that comes along.  However, by doing so on occasion, you will be creating positive personal impact and building your personal brand. 

Creating positive personal impact is an important, but not urgent task.  You don’t have to be taking on tough jobs to build your reputation every day.  However, if you never take on a job that will help you build your brand and reutation, you won’t achieve the kind of life and career success you want and deserve.

While it’s important to volunteer for difficult jobs, it’s also important to do them with enthusiasm.

A while back, I read an article on enthusiasm by Judy Williamson, Director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center, at Purdue University Calumet.  Here’s some of what she had to say.  I think it is great career advice…

“Enthusiasm is a powerful motivator when it is sincere and heartfelt. It is a spirit that inspires us to move forward positively in a direction of our own choosing…Only the results of enthusiasm can be seen, not enthusiasm itself because it is an abstract concept. Love, faith, honor, loyalty, and beauty are also abstract concepts. They cannot be perceived directly with the naked eye, but can be seen indirectly in the results that they cause to happen…

“A certain charisma develops within the enthusiastic person. Crowds respond to the ‘electricity’ that this person generates when they walk into a room, address a crowd, deliver a speech, or just work for their cause. Enthusiasm becomes a catalyst for change when it is sincere. People jump on the bandwagon of an enthusiastic person because they want to feel the energy for themselves. Greatness demands enthusiasm. 

“To be enthusiastic, act enthusiastically. Allow yourself to feel the energy and lightness of being that develops when you embrace the higher vibrations of your spirit.”

The “charisma” that Judy describes is what I call creating positive personal impact.  When you create positive personal impact, you are build your life and career success because others will notice you, want to associate with you, help you and follow you. 

Enthusiasm will help you create positive personal impact and build your personal brand.  People respond to enthusiastic people.  When you’re enthusiastic about what you’re doing, you — and other people – feel that you can overcome great obstacles.  It seems as if the entire universe in lining up to help you achieve whatever you have your heart set on achieving. 

The common sense career success coach point here is simple.  Successful people create positive personal impact.  Visibility is a key to creating positive personal impact.  Follow the career advice in Tweet 63 in Success Tweets.  “Be visible.  Volunteer for tough jobs.  Brand yourself as a person who can and does make significant contributions.”  Taking on tough jobs is an important, but not urgent task.  You don’t need to take on one after the other, but you do need to find places where you can shine.  Volunteer for those jobs.  If you never volunteer for tough jobs you will be losing  opportunities to create positive personal impact.  When you volunteer for tough jobs, do them with enthusiasm.  Enthusiasm will help you create positive personal impact and build your career success brand.

That’s my take on the career advice in Tweet 63 in Success Tweets.  What’s yours?  Have you even volunteered for a tough job and pulled it off successfully?  If so, please share your story with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading.

Bud