If you read this career advice blog with any regularity you know that I am a sports fan.  While I was a rugby player for many years, I also spent a lot of time playing pickup basketball.  I really like watching the game too – both college and professional.

On Sunday I watched the New York Knicks beat the defending NBA champion Dallas mavericks.  I got caught up in Linsanity.  If you don’t know, Linsanity is all about a young player for the Knicks, Jeremy Lin.  He is the first Chinese (Taiwanese) American born player to play in the NBA.  He also has a degree in Economics from Harvard.  On Sunday, against Dallas scored 28 points, had 14 assists, and played over 45 minutes.

Since he’s joined the Knicks, they are 7 and 1.  He’s scored over 20 points in each game.  He’s also had a couple of game winning shots.  Jeremy Lin’s Linsanity is this NBA season’s  Tebowmania.  It’s a very cool story.  Here’s a guy who played college ball at Harvard, a school unlikely to get into the Final Four.  He graduated.  He didn’t get drafted by any NBA team.  He was cut by two NBA teams before he caught on with the Knicks.  On Sunday, Spike Lee showed up courtside at Madison Square Garden wearing a replica of Lin’s Harvard jersey.

Through all the ups and down, Jeremy Lin stayed optimistic.  He is the personification of the career success advice in the Optimist Creed.   I have The Optimist Creed hanging in my office. I like it so much that I have created a .pdf of it and give it away to my career success coach clients. You can get a free copy to hang in your office at http://budbilanich.com/optimist. Check it out…

The Optimist Creed

Promise Yourself:

• To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
• To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
• To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
• To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
• To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
• To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
• To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
• To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
• To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Jeremy Lin is the Optimist Creed in action.  I think that the fourth point, “Promise yourself to look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true,” is especially true in his case.  Granted it’s a little easier to look at the sunny side of things when you have a degree from Harvard.  But if you really want to play in the NBA, that Harvard degree can be small consolation.

Optimists think of the glass as half full. A couple of years ago, Cathy and I saw a stage production of the Irving Berlin classic film musical, White Christmas, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. There is a number in the show where one of the leading men is comforting a small girl who is having trouble sleeping. In a song, he tells her, “When you can’t sleep, count your blessings, not sheep.” On the way home, we were talking about that song. We know that we are blessed. However, sometimes we forget how much we are blessed. We both decided that we would begin counting our blessings when we felt a little down and depressed.

Counting your blessings and not sheep is a great first step to “look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.” Realizing that you are blessed and that there is a sunny side is a good first step. However, don’t forget the second part of the quote – “make your optimism come true.”

These last five words are what’s key here. If you want to become the career success you deserve to be, you not only need to be optimistic. You need to do the work necessary to make your optimism come true. That’s practical optimism.  And that’s Jeremy Lin.  He wasn’t drafted by an NBA team.  He was cut to by two of them.  But he kept working and improving his game.  Now he is the toast of New York.

Optimism can put you on the path to success, but hard work is will keep you moving forward. In my book, Straight Talk for Success: Common Sense Ideas That Won’t Let You Down, I talk about the importance of taking personal responsibility for your life and career success.

“It’s simple, really. Career success is all up to you, and me, and anyone else who wants it. We all have to take personal responsibility for our own career success. I am the only one who can make me a career success. You are the only one who can make you a career success.

“Personal responsibility means recognizing that you are responsible for your life and the choices you make. It means that you realize that while other people and events have an impact on your life, these people and events don’t shape your life. When you accept personal responsibility for your life and career success, you own up to the fact that how you react to people and events is what’s important. And you can choose how you react to every person you meet and everything that happens to you.”

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. Optimism coupled with hard work can help you make your life and career success dreams come true. Just ask Jeremy Lin, the newest NBA superstar.  If you want to create the life and career success you deserve, you need to be like Jeremy Lin.  Become a practical optimist. Pay attention to point four in The Optimist Creed. Look at the sunny side of things. Count your blessings. See the glass as half full. Then, take personal responsibility for doing the work necessary to make your optimism and career success dreams come true. Optimism is a great career success catalyst, but it alone will not guarantee your life and career success. You have to do the work – no two ways about it.

That’s my career advice on being a practical optimist. What do you think? Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment. As always thanks for reading my 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. 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 site on 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.

I send a career success quote to my subscribers every day.  If you would like to start receiving these daily success quotes log on my website http://www.BudBilanich.com and enter your name and email address in the box to the right, just under the image of my career success book, Success Tweets.  Sunday’s career success quote came from David Rockefeller.  “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”

Three tweets in the Outstanding Performance section of Success Tweets reflect Mr. Rockefeller’s thoughts.

Training — Tweet 81: “Become a lifelong learner.  The half-life of knowledge is rapidly diminishing.  Staying in the same place is the same as going backwards.

If you want to become an outstanding performer, you need to become a lifelong learner.  I once saw a great quote from Louis L’Amour, the great American writer of stories about the old west.  I think this quote captures the essence of lifelong learning…

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.  That will be the beginning.”

I know a lot about career and life success.  I’ve written several books on it.  I give lots of talks about it.  I’ve coached hundreds of people – helping them build the life and career success they want and deserve.  I write this blog.  At one point, I thought I knew it all.

And you know what?  Every time I write about life and career success, every time I speak about it, every time I coach someone offering my career advice, I gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to create life and career success

I begin anew every day, doing whatever I can to learn about life and career success so I can pass on this knowledge and wisdom to others.  I choose to keep learning.  So should you.  Pay attention here – this is solid career advice.  I’ve learned that if you don’t keep learning, you don’t stand still – you fall behind in the game of life.  I’ve also learned that what I learned after I knew it all was some of the best and most important of my learnings.

Discipline – Tweet 97 “Today, do the things others won’t do; so tomorrow you can do the things they can’t do.”

I got this one from Jerry Rice an American Football player.  He is in the NFL Hall of Fame.  When he retired, he held all of the important records a wide receiver could amass.  I’ve never seen anyone better – and I’ve watched a lot of football over the years.  Growing up in Pittsburgh, Sundays meant two things – church and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Jerry Rice was well known for his commitment to fitness.  He worked out harder and longer than any other pro football player.  When he was asked the secret of his success, he said, “I am willing to do the things today that others won’t do, so I can do things on Sunday that they can’t do.”  In other words, work hard, prepare, commit to taking personal responsibility for your own success.

It’s simple, really.  Success is all up to you, and me, and anyone else who wants it.  We all have to take personal responsibility for our own success.  I am the only one who can make me a success.  You are the only one who can make you a success.  Become willing to do things that others are unwilling to do – and this can be a million little things like keeping your clothes in good repair; shining your shoes; rehearsing your presentation out loud; proofreading your emails, not just relying on spell check; staying up-to-date on your company, your competitors and your industry, building relationships by doing willingly for others.

If you already do these kinds of things, bravo.  You’re in the minority.  Too many people do only what they have to.  Successful people always go the extra mile.  As Jerry Rice says, they do the things others won’t.

Think for a minute.  What are the kinds of things that you can do that go above and beyond, that demonstrate your commitment to your own success?  Make a list.  Then go about doing these things regularly.

Hard Work – Tweet 100: “Care about what you do.  If you care a little, you’ll be an OK performer.  If you care a lot, you’ll become an outstanding performer.”

I care about helping people create the life and career success they want and deserve.  I care a lot.  That’s why I wrote Success Tweets and I give it away for free.  That’s why I wrote a series of blog posts explaining each of the 141 tweets in more detail.  I care so much about this that I committed to writing 700 or 800 words every day for 28 weeks.  I care a lot about helping you achieve the kind of career success you deserve.  And I know that this caring will pay off in me becoming an outstanding career success coach – somebody who gives really great career advice.

When you care you do your very best.  Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of my favorite books: To Kill a Mockingbird.  There is a passage in that book that has always stuck with me.  It’s in Chapter 11 and is spoken by Atticus Finch, the father, played by Gregory Peck in the film.  He’s speaking to Scout, his daughter…

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.  It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.  You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

It takes courage to care. Because when you care, you put yourself out there.  You do your best.  And doing your best can be a scary thing.  When you care, when you consciously do your best and fail, it is heartbreaking.  But at least you have the satisfaction of knowing you did your best.

I remember when I applied to graduate school at Harvard.  I decided that I was going to demonstrate to myself how much I cared by writing the very best application I could.  I wasn’t going to let myself off the hook if I didn’t get accepted by saying, “I could have written a better application, but I just didn’t spend the time I should have.”

When I put my application in the mailbox – we still did quaint things like that back in the old days – I was proud of what I had written.  I knew it was the very best I could do.  I was also frightened because I knew that my best might not be good enough.  After all, both of my other degrees were from state schools.  Who was I to think that those kind of credentials would get me accepted at Harvard?

I cared about the quality of my application, so I did the very best I could.  The story in this case has a happy ending.  I was accepted and got my degree.  Even if I had not been accepted, I would have been proud of myself because I cared enough to write the best application I could, and I dared enough to admit it to myself.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  David Rockefeller provides some great career advice when he says, “Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”  Here’s my take on what he has to say.  Keep learning and growing – that way you won’t stagnate.  Discipline yourself to take on difficult tasks and to do the things that other people won’t do.  Care about your job.  Demonstrate how much you care by working hard – every day.

That’s my career advice prompted by David Rockefellers quote on training, discipline and hard work.  What do you think?  Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  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.  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.

I am a big Chinese food fan.  There’s a double bonus for me with Chinese food.  Besides eating the food I like, I sometimes find career advice that becomes inspiration for my blog posts in fortune cookies.  It’s been a while since I did a fortune cookie post.  But as luck would have it, I ate some Chinese food last night and my fortune cookie read, “Advancement will come with hard work.”  I agree.  This post is about doing the work necessary to make your vision of your career success a reality.

While you need to visualize your life and career success, your vision is for naught if you don’t have the will and determination to work hard at making it a reality.  There’s a quote that I’ve seen attributed to many American football coaches, “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”  You have to be willing to work hard if you’re going to succeed.

Yes, you need to work smart, not just hard, but hard work is the best way to create the life and career success you want and deserve.  Fortune Magazine says it succinctly: “There is no substitute for hard work.”  Bobby Fischer became a chess grandmaster at age 16.  However, he had nine years of hard work and intense study to get to that place.  Few of us are willing to work that hard at that early of an age.

The success literature is full of quotes on hard work.  Take a look…

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”   Margaret Thatcher

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson

“Love conquers all, but if love doesn’t do it, try hard work.” Unknown

“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.” James A. Garfield

“When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.” Steve Pavlina

“There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas Edison

“The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.” Unknown

“Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.” J.C. Penney

“Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends.”  Charles Lazarus

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” Margaret M. Fitzpatrick

“Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.”  Nadia Comaneci

“Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.”   Lakshmi Mittal

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”     David Bly

Here’s a story my friend Andy O’Bryan tells about his success journey…

The year was 2004.

I had left my high-paying marketing director position and was trying to get traction with a fledgling home business.  To pay the bills I was cold calling from 9-5 for $400 a week.

From 7 pm to 1 am every night I was interviewing.  Authors, speakers, coaches, trainers, gurus, icons, industry leaders.  For a while I was doing 6 or 7 interviews a week.

Life lessons, business advice, sales training, inspiration, just an amazing amount of content came out of these sessions.

The calls were recorded and the mp3′s were put up on a website: http://www.AudioMotivation.com.

Co-founder Josh Hinds and I grew this site to over 1,500 paying members and 800 affiliates.  There are over 100 interviews in there.  It was a very challenging but extremely rewarding time of my life.

Andy now has a very successful home-based business.  But he put in the time and hard work it took to make it so.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  Successful people not only visualize their life and career success, they do the work necessary to achieve it.  Achieve is the key word here.  And achievement goes hand-in-hand with hard work.  Successful people not only create a vivid mental image of their life and career success; they put in the hard work necessary to accomplish that vision.  There are no two ways about it.  If you want to create the life and career success you deserve, you need to put in the time and effort necessary to succeed.  Sometimes this means working longer hours than others.  I have found that a well-focused extra hour a week can yield big results.  The common sense message here is simple: hard work = life and career success.

That’s my career advice on hard work.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  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, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s 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.

I am a big Chinese food fan.  There’s a double bonus for me with Chinese food.  Besides eating the food I like, I sometimes find career advice that becomes inspiration for my blog posts in fortune cookies.  It’s been a while since I did a fortune cookie post.  But as luck would have it, I ate some Chinese food last night and my fortune cookie read, “Advancement will come with hard work.”  I agree.  This post is about doing the work necessary to make your vision of your career success a reality.

While you need to visualize your life and career success, your vision is for naught if you don’t have the will and determination to work hard at making it a reality.  There’s a quote that I’ve seen attributed to many American football coaches, “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”  You have to be willing to work hard if you’re going to succeed.

Yes, you need to work smart, not just hard, but hard work is the best way to create the life and career success you want and deserve.  Fortune Magazine says it succinctly: “There is no substitute for hard work.”  Bobby Fischer became a chess grandmaster at age 16.  However, he had nine years of hard work and intense study to get to that place.  Few of us are willing to work that hard at that early of an age.

The success literature is full of quotes on hard work.  Take a look…

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”   Margaret Thatcher

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson

“Love conquers all, but if love doesn’t do it, try hard work.” Unknown

“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.” James A. Garfield

“When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.” Steve Pavlina

“There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas Edison

“The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.” Unknown

“Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.” J.C. Penney

“Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends.”  Charles Lazarus

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” Margaret M. Fitzpatrick

“Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.”  Nadia Comaneci

“Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.”   Lakshmi Mittal

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”     David Bly

Here’s a story my friend Andy O’Bryan tells about his success journey…

The year was 2004.

I had left my high-paying marketing director position and was trying to get traction with a fledgling home business.  To pay the bills I was cold calling from 9-5 for $400 a week.

From 7 pm to 1 am every night I was interviewing.  Authors, speakers, coaches, trainers, gurus, icons, industry leaders.  For a while I was doing 6 or 7 interviews a week.

Life lessons, business advice, sales training, inspiration, just an amazing amount of content came out of these sessions.

The calls were recorded and the mp3′s were put up on a website: http://www.AudioMotivation.com.

Co-founder Josh Hinds and I grew this site to over 1,500 paying members and 800 affiliates.  There are over 100 interviews in there.  It was a very challenging but extremely rewarding time of my life.

Andy now has a very successful home-based business.  But he put in the time and hard work it took to make it so.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  Successful people not only visualize their life and career success, they do the work necessary to achieve it.  Achieve is the key word here.  And achievement goes hand-in-hand with hard work.  Successful people not only create a vivid mental image of their life and career success; they put in the hard work necessary to accomplish that vision.  There are no two ways about it.  If you want to create the life and career success you deserve, you need to put in the time and effort necessary to succeed.  Sometimes this means working longer hours than others.  I have found that a well-focused extra hour a week can yield big results.  The common sense message here is simple: hard work = life and career success.

That’s my career advice on hard work.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  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, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s 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.

Over the weekend, I received an email from the folks at JustSell.com that had some great career advice.  It was a quote from Voltaire, the French philosopher.  Check it out…

“Shun idleness.  It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”

I would amend this to say that idleness is the rust that attached itself to the most brilliant minds.  Or as Neil Young says, “It’s better to burn out than rust away.”

Regardless of whether you prefer Voltaire’s original quote, my reinterpretation or the rock and roll version,  there is an important career success idea here.  Idleness is a career success killer.   Career success comes from being active and working hard – not settling for good enough.

Tweet 96 in my career advice book Success Tweets says, “Good truly is the enemy of great.  Don’t settle for good performance.  Today good is mediocre.  Become a great performer.”

Hard work is the best way I know to become a great performer.  In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins hit the nail on the head when he began with the idea that good is the enemy of great.  He’s right, good is the enemy of great.  There are lots of good performers, but only a few great ones.  To achieve the life and career success you want and deserve, you need to become a great performer – not just a good one.

Good is seductive.  For many of us, it’s not too difficult to be good.  And good has a nice feeling attached to it.  On the other hand, good performance won’t get you to the top of the promotion list and keep you off of the layoff list.  Great performance will.

But great performance comes with a price.  You have to work at it.  In The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame quotes several great performers on paying the price…

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.”  Michelangelo

“When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team.  But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.”  Steve Alford, Head Basketball Coach, University of New Mexico.

“If I miss a day of practice, I know it.  If I miss two days, my manager knows it.  If I miss three days, my audience knows it.”  Andre Previn, Pianist, Conductor and Composer.

“Talent is cheaper than table salt.  What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”  Stephen King, Bestselling Novelist

Here are four people – an artist, a basketball player, a pianist and a writer – all saying the same thing: good is the enemy of great; and to be great, you have to work hard.

Your natural talent might allow you to be good.  Great — and career success – however, requires determination and persistence, never being idle, always working towards your life and career success goals.

Jerry Rice is in the NFL Hall of Fame.  He was well known for his commitment to fitness.  He worked out harder and longer than any other pro football player.  When he was asked the secret of his success, he said, “I am willing to do the things today that others won’t do, so I can do things on Sunday that they can’t do.”  In other words: don’t be idle, work hard, prepare, commit to taking personal responsibility for your career success.

It’s simple, really.  Career success is all up to you, and me, and anyone else who wants it.  We all have to take personal responsibility for our own success.  I am the only one who can make me a career success.  You are the only one who can make you a career success. 

Become willing to do things that others are unwilling to do – and this can be a million little things like working hard, keeping your clothes in good repair; shining your shoes; rehearsing your presentation out loud; proofreading your emails, not just relying on spell check; staying up-to-date on your company, your competitors and your industry, building relationships by doing willingly for others.

If you already do these kinds of things, bravo.  You’re in the minority.  Too many people do only what they have to.  Successful people always go the extra mile.  As Jerry Rice says, they do the things others won’t.

Think for a minute.  What are the kinds of things that you can do that go above and beyond, that demonstrate your commitment to your own career success?  Make a list.  Then go about doing these things regularly.

Activity and persistence will make you an outstanding performer.  And they are the key to putting the career advice in the Voltaire quote at the beginning of this post to work.  Activity – even 1% more than you currently do – and persistence – fighting through problems and setbacks – will yield positive results in the long term.  But you have to commit to both of them.

Some of the best career advice on persistence that I’ve come across comes from Calvin Coolidge, 30^th President of the United States…

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.  The slogan, “press on,” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

The career success coach point here is simple common sense.  Successful people are great performers.  They follow the advice in Tweet 96 in Success Tweets.  “Good truly is the enemy of great.  Don’t settle for good performance.  Today, good is mediocre.  Become a great performer.”  Hard work and persistence are the best ways to become a great performer.  If you practice longer, prepare more, make the extra call, rewrite your proposal, rehearse your presentation, you will find yourself creating the life and career success you want and deserve.  Keep at it.  Don’t become idle.  Don’t let your brilliance rust away.

That’s my career advice when it comes to avoiding idleness.  What do you think?  Please take a minute to share your thoughts with us in a comment.  As always, thanks for reading my daily musings on life and career success.

Bud

PS: If you haven’t already done so, you can download a free copy of my latest career success book Success Tweets Explained.  It’s a whopping 390 + pages of common sense career advice explaining each of the tweets in Success Tweets in detail.  Go to http://budurl.com/STExp to claim your free copy.