Mentorship
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…
Self-development
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…
The Best and Worst Jobs
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…
Work-Life Boundaries, not Balance
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…
Why your career should come before your family
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. …
Writing 5 year goals – a personal example
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…
3 Keys to Picking a Career
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…
How to stop wasting time and get the most out of life
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…
What Drives You?
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…
What does it mean to live a life with a central purpose?
"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…