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The Power of Perception
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed the power of perception.
According to Harrison, one of the most powerful and important aspects of our careers and our lives is how we are perceived by others and how we control our own perceptions of those around us. People can use perceptions to their advantage or to their disadvantage. The most successful people are able to use perceptions to their advantage.
Many people feel that their job se...
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The Incredible Power Available to You
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's CEO, A Harrison Barnes discussed the importance of realizing and harnessing the potent power all around us.
Way back till the late 1800s, tomatoes were considered a poisonous fruit in the United States. It was only when Cortez ate a bushel of tomatoes in front of a large gathering that the myth was shattered. Harrison says that all of us are similarly limited by such beliefs and understanding of the universe that we impose upon ourselves.
Harrison...
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The Importance of Challenging Convention
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how people who challenge convention are the ones that really make an impression.
According to Harrison one of the biggest obstacles to our success, is that we think a lot of people are paying attention to us, watching us and are concerned about us when in reality they are not. Most people are completely focused on themselves and are not interested at all in what others around them are doing. In fact, even if yo...
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Never Overlook the Obvious
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how many a time obvious solutions are overlooked.
Harrison narrates a bizarre incident, which involved a poorly constructed asphalt sealer tank that he had rented. He had rented an asphalt sealer tank that had a pipe welded to the bottom of the tank which meant that it shook when it was on the freeway. He had gotten on the freeway with his tank and because of the ass-backwards design of this rental tank, it had...
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The Old Man, the Radiator Shop and Integrity
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how opportunity used the wrong way can destroy everything.
According to Harrison there can be real danger in opportunity if it gets associated with greed. What could otherwise be a very productive and excellent business can in a very short time get destroyed by the greed of one single person. When people cheat, in however small a way, the damage adds up.
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He Who Sees True Opportunities Shall Always Prosper
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how one should handle job loss.
People lose their jobs and may find themselves in a position where they cannot find a job that is as good as the one they lost. What is important, however, is what people do when they are in this position. According to Harrison many people completely blow it when it comes to reestablishing their careers, which is not the right way to handle it.
The possibility ...
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Acres of Diamonds
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes took you through Russell Conwell’s Acres of Diamonds. Conwell delivered this speech over 5,000 times between 1900 and 1925 and according to Harrison it is one of the greatest pieces that he has ever read on finding opportunity.
Acres of Diamonds states that in order for us to find fortune, opportunity and achievement we do not need to look elsewhere. Instead, the resources for us to become rich are present all around...
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The Most Valuable Work Is Work That Repeats Itself
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how it is important to go for jobs that offer repeat work.
Harrison believes that it is important to always have repeat work, over and above those handsome one-offs. According to him companies fail and people fail due to the fact they are not getting “repeat work”. When it comes to judging the ultimate value of any job, there is nothing more important than the possibility of generating repeat work.
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Never Go for the "Quick Advantage"
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how power lies in giving the most.
There are just so many people out there who will do whatever they can to take advantage of everyone and every situation. Harrison believes that our efforts should be going toward creating long term value–not taking from people every chance we get.
It is not worth taking advantage of others–our efforts should go into providing value and earning the return, no...
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You Do Not Need to Escape to Get the Life You Want
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how happiness comes from within and not from objects outside of yourself.
Each and every one of us is seeking something. According to Harrison the worst sensation is to strive for something and, upon achieving it, to discover that it is empty for us. This happens because we all want the superficial outcomes. However, a car or a house does not make you a fuller person. What happens is that in seeking these thing...
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