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What Shia LaBeouf can Teach You About Your Dream Job

Nick Fox — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:02:53 +0000

If you haven’t seen the absolutely insane viral video of Shia LaBeouf standing in front of a green screen shouting at you to “Just do it!” like some coked-out Nike spokesperson, this article isn’t going to make a lot of sense, so I recommend you go watch it now.

Click here to see the video…DO IT!

Okay, now that we’re on the same page, let’s begin…

In my first “real” job, as a financial analyst, I [Read More...]

Why you SHOULD Use Times New Roman on Résumés

Nick Fox — Sat, 02 May 2015 17:13:23 +0000

In the past few days you it seems can’t go anywhere without hearing how “Times New Roman is the worst font for résumés” or how it’s akin to “wearing sweatpants to an interview.”

I’m here today to say that is just plain WRONG.

The trouble all started when Bloomberg posted a piece asking typography experts about the best and worst fonts to use on résumés. And this is what the search results have looked [Read More...]

A Tale of Two Clients

Nick Fox — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 05:17:53 +0000

In working with my private career coaching clients, I’ve come across – what amounts to – every single personality type imaginable. From those who can’t live without working and will take any job that comes their way, to those who really don’t want to work and just want to get a job so that their bills get taken care of. Each of these ways of thinking has its unique strengths and weaknesses. For instance, those who will take any job [Read More...]

What Success REALLY Means…

Nick Fox — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:59:50 +0000

It’s not money or fame or anything…it’s value.

In coaching people through their careers I find that they often present their problems in very black and white terms. Either they get the job at the company they want, or they don’t; either they get paid what they were asking or they don’t. The real world is rarely so stark, and neither is success.

I felt this was an important topic to cover up front, now that Success Hacking is alive and kicking [Read More...]

Why Experts Suck

Nick Fox — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:15:48 +0000

A lot of people wonder why I eschew the title of “expert” and instead choose to use “hacker.” Is it just because it sounds more badass? Well, it does, but that’s not the reason.

To get to the reason, think about about this little scenario. For the sake of this example, let’s say you’re looking to lose weight. This can be applied to any field (Finance, employment, time management, etc) but in this case, you want to lose some weight, and [Read More...]

The Road to Success Step Five: Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Nick Fox — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:42:19 +0000

This is the final step in my Road to Success series. (Can you believe it’s over already) Please feel free to comment or email me with other feedback. I’m planning much bigger, more involved series down the road, so I’d be interested to get your take on the inaugural one.

So far you’ve recognized your fears, broken down your goals, became your own expert, and ignored everyone else’s rules. So now what?

Now? You refine. The road to success is not a [Read More...]

Prove Yourself Wrong

Nick Fox — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:58:12 +0000

I’d like to talk to you about a dirty word today. It’s four-letters long, begins with C and ends in NT, and has a vowel in between. That word, of course, is “Can’t!”

How many times do you say that stupid, little word every day? How many times do you stop yourself from doing something just because you “can’t?”

It’s a cliché to say “‘can’t’ really just means ‘won’t'” when we hear someone else say they can’t do something (especially when it’s something we [Read More...]

The Myth of the Overnight Success

Nick Fox — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:48:23 +0000

"Oh, yeah! Success!"

We’ve all had those thoughts, those “Why not me” thoughts, those, “If only I had come up with that idea instead of him” thoughts.

They start innocently enough, we see an interview with Mark Zuckerberg talking about how many users Facebook has or hear about Richard Branson taking Virgin across the UK in a matter of months…both before their 30th birthdays. You feel like you missed the boat, you [Read More...]

The Road to Success Step Three: Become Your Own Expert

Nick Fox — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:09:31 +0000

It’s happened to all of us, we get so enamored with our idea for a great new product or goal or service, that we just go for it without a second thought.

We tell our friends, “I’m going to make a million dollars, because if I just sell to one out of every thousand people in China with a one dollar markup…” but we never stop to actually step back and see if our idea is supported by reality – will [Read More...]

I Want You to Fail

Nick Fox — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:41:58 +0000

That’s right. I don’t want you succeed at all. At last I finally peel back the curtain on my real intentions. I’m an evil genius who wants nothing more than your complete and utter failure in all you do.

…or not.

What is it that so universally terrifies us of failure? So often, when someone starts working towards a new goal, you’ll hear things like, “Yeah, but that would never work, so why try,” or “Well, I don’t really have a good [Read More...]