This is still one of the most asked questions I get. Here’s a podcast listener question: Dan, Thanks for your 48Days podcast. My goal for 2015 is to go totally free lance, with the hope of writing more and selling…
This morning I was listening to Joe Polish on his I Love Marketing podcast. He and Dan Sullivan were talking about what it means to “decide.” I was blown away to hear Dan point out that the Latin word from…
William McKinley, the 25th U.S. President, once had to choose between two equally qualified men for a key job. He puzzled over the choice until he remembered a long-ago incident. On a rainy night, McKinley had boarded a crowded streetcar. …
There were tearful hallelujahs and shouts of victory in Seattle recently when the city voted to raise the minimum wage there to $15 an hour. Fast food workers are dreaming of getting nicer apartments, buying newer cars and going back…
I love the rich and picturesque questions submitted by 48 Days Podcast listeners. Here’s one: “Dan, I believe I am at a crossroads. I am a product designer and I have finally achieved a life long dream of designing a product…
Four years ago Steve told me he was writing a small e-book on creative ways to buy a car. I saw him last week at a seminar and asked him about that book. He very excitedly told me he was…
Here’s a question from a reader – an engineer. (We’ll call him Bill) “I’m at a job that I hate mainly because I feel like every day I’m set up to fail. There’s no job satisfaction. I go to work…
In the first few moments of the movie Collateral, the taxi driver, played by Jamie Foxx, tells Tom Cruise’s character: “I’m not in this for the long haul. This is just filling in—I’m putting some things together—I’m going to open…
According to the latest research from Salary.com, 83% of people polled said they are planning to look for a different job this year. At the same time, only 46% said they were unhappy in their jobs. So what’s up –…
This morning I read Michael Hyatt’s blog on Why People Who Sleep Longer Achieve More and then Andy Traub sent me a link to Saturday’s New York Times piece on Why You Hate Work. Both pieces talk about us being…