I’m at an inflection point. I’m now a mid-career academic. I’ve been awarded tenure, finished my textbook, and now must decide what direction to take my career. Several options lie before me. I can focus on my research with an eye on achieving full professor. I can focus writing more […]
I found this amazing quote from Peter Drucker: “For development is always self-development. Nothing could be more absurd than for the enterprise to assume responsibility for the development of a man. No business enterprise rests with the individual, his abilities, his efforts. No business enterprise is competent, let alone obligated, […]
In 1996, I dropped out of college and worked at the worst job in my life. During those miserable 6 months, I became an employee at an antique mall. Not that there’s anything wrong with antiques, but the job sucked. Particularly, one of the positions. In that position, I was assigned to sit […]
You may have noticed over the past month that the number of posts I wrote for Reason for Success has been smaller than in the past. This was due in part to my struggles with identifying the appropriate work/life balance. Guess what I found out. Thinking in terms of balance was […]
If you were to take any time to watch me throughout my day, you would probably think that I am a typical family man. I average 40 hour work weeks. On the weekends, I spend a large amount of time with my family. We go to sport practices and play […]
Updated from an earlier post on Try Reason! In a previous post, I identified an outline for identifying 5 year goals, which begins with identifying your central purpose in life (CPL). In this post, I detail how I arrived at my current 5 year goals. I start with my current CPL – to […]
All things being equal most of us want more money. All things being equal most of us want a career that brings immense personal satisfaction. What if those two things do not align? What if the career that you would love to pursue makes it extremely difficult to make money. Some common […]
Every action we choose requires time and effort – time and effort that could be spent doing another activity. So its to our best interest to spend each second on activities that create the most value for us – on actions that are value-dense. “Since a value is that which one […]
In our personal and professional lives, goals must be set in order to know where we are at on the road map of life. Goals can help us not only achieve what we value, but goals can also help us change our perspective, if the goals are set properly. I […]
“A central purpose serves to integrate all the other concerns of a man’s life. It establishes the hierarchy, the relative importance, of his values, it saves him from pointless inner conflicts, it permits him to enjoy life on a wide scale and to carry that enjoyment into any area open to his […]
