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Appreciate Those around You
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed the importance of appreciating others when they do something good for you.
People often do not appreciate when others try to do good things for them. In fact, more often than not people become angry that you did not do more for them. According to Harrison it is rare that someone takes us under their wing on the street, in an employment office, or elsewhere. It is even rarer for the person who offers the help t...
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You Need to Be Self-Managed and Self-Motivated
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed the role of self-motivation and self management.
According to Harrison self-motivated and self managed people always perform well. The very best employees are often those who did incredibly well in college. The reason for this is that the best college students are always self-motivated, disciplined individuals who enjoy their work. You have to find a way to enjoy what you are doing in order to do well at it.
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Attitude and Your Career
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how being totally honest and sincere with your work helps you succeed in life.
According to Harrison the greatest thing that makes people successful, is their ability to act promptly, concentrate their energies, and get something done. It is all about attitude. A good attitude and taking pride in what one does is the most important attribute anyone can possess. He compares this attitude with the initiative of a...
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Do Not Be Arrogant
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how arrogance can never help you succeed.
Harrison strongly believes that the most arrogant people are often the most uncertain of themselves. Out of insecurity many people decide that it is important to project an image that they are better than others, and to come across as if they know exactly what they are doing at all times; nothing bothers them; and they know more than everybody else.
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Rules, Your Nature, and Your Career
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes talked about rules and how they are the most important aspect of any business and in any profession.
Harrison emphasizes that you need to ensure that you know the rules governing whatever you are doing in life and in your career. Without this there is no way you can succeed in what you are doing. Every job has a series of rules that need to be followed if you want to see progress. If you follow the rules you will do well...
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Feral Children, Puzzles, Jews, and Filters
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how filters in our lives limit us in many ways.
Harrison believes that the quality of our lives is not determined by the things we own, the jobs we do, the friends we have, the city we live in, the vacations we take, or the world we live in. Instead, the quality of our lives is determined by the filters we use to view the world. Everything that happens to us and our entire response to the world is shaped by the...
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Sharing of Information
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how it helps to share information.
Harrison believes that all of the incredible progress we have made in the United States with the Internet has been based on the importance of the sharing of information. Our entire careers, families and everything else have been changed by this sharing of information. In fact Internet was started and based around the idea of sharing information.
We have comput...
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Ask Others What Course You Are On
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how it helps to ask the people around you about how they envision your life unfolding.
When we look back at ourselves several years ago most of us realize how little we knew at that time and how many mistakes we made, which we could certainly avoid today. According to Harrison it can be frightening looking back at our past, and the people we were. Several times throughout your life you will have people tell...
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Stay on Track
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed the importance of staying focused to our lives and careers.
According to Harrison anyone can get started on the road to success and a life of fulfillment but the real task is staying on the path of success. Because once you get on the path there are always multitudes of people out there who want to knock you off of that path. People do not like other people who could possibly be perceived as better than themse...
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Narcissistic Entitlement Syndrome
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes defined Narcissistic Entitlement Syndrome (”NES”) and discusses why you need to avoid people suffering from NES.
According to Harrison one of the greatest problems facing many people in the job market today is NES. NES is something that is not easily defined but, in its simplest form, it is demonstrated by a person being inwardly focused and oblivious to the people and organizations that he or she is supposed to serv...
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