Pursuit Happyness

You need to know how to write a resume that is professional if you are a current job seeker. If you begin to think of your resume as the ticket that can land your interview, you will put the proper amount of importance on this item. Many people take their resume for granted, but when you begin to design a more effective resume, it can help you greatly with your task of finding a job. Your resume will answer many of the questions that an employer will have during an interview. If you are making Read more [...]

Kim Clijsters, world-class tennis player and this year’s winner of the women’s singles final at the U.S. open, certainly doesn’t think so. This year’s victory was the third time Clijsters picked up the trophy, having won in 2005 and 2009 as well. What’s amazing about this story – aside from the crushing win in two sets against a very tough opponent named Vera Zvonareva from Russia – is that the win in 2009 and this year’s win followed the birth of her daughter Jada now aged two and a half. But she’s Read more [...]

Getting things done is a topic of many websites out there these days, and they all say different things.  How is a person supposed to get anything done when there are so many sites to read on how to get things done?!?  I don’t subscribe to any specific guru out there, but here are a few ways that I have stayed productive for the last several years.  These methods might not be ground breaking, but they work for me, and I think they will work for you too. Create Small Lists I take an Read more [...]

“Buy Now, Pay Later!” This is a huge money myth that seems true, because it is so big and pervasive. The real truth about this belief system is that it is designed to create perpetual consumers! The truth is really pay now and pay later. First you pay by subtly extending your indentured servanthood another three years, five years, or in the case of a mortgage, 30 years. The same competitive system that is most likely your employer is part of the same competitive system that loans you Read more [...]

Image courtesy of Moira MacMahon Building trust based relationships, either professional or personal, is a really big thing. It can propel your career or your life if you can do it, and it can sink them if you can’t. I believe that one of the most important ingredients for building these kinds of relationships is keeping your promises. When you consistently keep you promises, you essentially align what you say you will do with what you truly do, and people know that they can rely on you. Read more [...]

I  MUST HAVE A JOB. This is one incredible money-myth whopper. How long has the job been in existence? A hundred years, perhaps? The job creates a false sense of security, but also that of indentured servitude. For a job, we trade our biggest chunk of time each day for a “pot of porridge, credit card debt, and a home the bank owns.” We have traded our talents, youth, even our soul, for the promise of a steady paycheck. Yet, God, the creator, the source of life, has kept people alive Read more [...]

Are you nailing job interviews, closing new clients, and maximizing every meeting? Most likely you aren’t, but I’ll show you how I blew a huge meeting and what you can learn from my mistakes. Bottom line . . . you need to prepare for key meetings. It doesn’t matter if you are on an interview, auditioning for a TV show, meeting a prospect for your business, or trying to get your kid into a swanky private school. It doesn’t matter if the meeting is at your office or theirs. You need Read more [...]

PickTheBrain is proud to present a 10 Part series, written by Deborah S. Nelson of Author Your Dreams. Money Myth 1:  “I Can’t Afford It!” Can’t afford It.” How many times do we repeat this in a day? It has been astutely stated, “possession is nine-tenths of the law.” It is also the basic tenant of advertising that by repeating something over and over again, it becomes truth. Let’s face it: 50 years ago, no one needed deodorant. Mankind survived for thousands and Read more [...]

To make money or to create Abundance, what’s the difference? Seems like a minor distinction, doesn’t it? On the surface it is. However, after exploring the subject of abundance in depth, I woke up this morning with an epiphany. Trying to deliberately make money, doesn’t work. Correction. It works enough to fool us into thinking we can deliberately make money, but as it turns out; we are only chasing it. It teases us into thinking that “making money” is an actual skill. On a Read more [...]

Image courtesy of W. Kozak Starting your own small business can seem like a daunting task at first. This is why many people never attempt it. However, if you break up your duties into smaller tasks, it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. In fact, if you follow these steps to starting a small business you may find that you’re a profitable entrepreneur in no time. While you may not have to complete all of these steps, or complete them in this exact order, the following list should give Read more [...]