THE DREAM IN ACTION

Aren’t you getting tired of hearing people talk about the Work – Life balance? I am, and it’s mostly because I don’t understand the concept. It’s not that I work 80 hours a week, or than I don’t have a social life, because I do, I have a great one. The confusion is derived from [...]

Milwaukee skyline On December 10 & 11 I will be moving my bed from Chicago to the lovely city of Milwaukee.  My first night living in Milwaukee with be in January as I begin my new job (much more to come on that later).  I will be sad to leave Chicago as I have had [...]

Of all the folks out in Silicon Valley rolling in the cash the ‘Googlers’ are now among the wealthiest.  Michael Arrington wrote on TechCrunch recently about how there are 1,000 Google employees who’s stock grants and options are worth, now with the recent increase in price, over $5 million. See said increase:   There are [...]

I receive a short career help and motivation tip once a week from a friends father. Every week it helps me to refocus on my job and more important the quality of the job I’m doing at my job. Peter Berner is inspiring, motivational and thought provoking. This weeks CAREER MOMENT is worth sharing… From CAREER MOMENTS by Peter Berner Here’s my weekly [...]

If you are familiar with Lifehack.com’s “Mind Hack” posts this is the first Mind Hack post for ActionsTalk.com.  I hope that this changes the way that you approach decision making and benefits you in you career and your life. Decision making is one of the most important skills an individual can learn.  People say that [...]

Q: What is your great opportunity Ryan… A: Well, I can’t go into it in detail… for very un-obvious reasons, how every I think that if a person our age is presented a great opportunity it is foolish for that person to not take FULL advantage of it… I’ll expand on this later, when I feel comfortable… I understand [...]

If it takes more than this poster to motivate you, try this… Yossi Vardi, (an original investor in ICQ) quoted a Theodore Roosevelt speech from 1910 in a discussion held a TechCrunch40 last month to draw a parallel to today’s entrepreneur.             “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out [...]

How productive is it to have one place that you go to work everyday.  I sit in the same place everyday as many people do during their work day and I’m actually in a very good situation. I work on the 29th floor of a building in Chicago’s loop and I sit right on a [...]

I’m in the very early stages of a career and I think I’m going through something that many people go through. I’ve entered a period of stagnation.  I go to work everyday but I’m rarely excited to go or excited about the work I’m doing. I don’t want to give up but I question all [...]

For those of us struggling to figure out just how we’ll “do it on our own”, the largest struggle is that in the mean time you have to work. It’s not all bad, the training is good, the experience is good, the money (relative to starting your own business) is easy. However, it’s just not [...]