Learn how to make more money by changing your mindset and expanding your capabilities. Make more money by thinking in terms of an hourly rate, growing your skills, and flowing more value.

Use The Way of Success as your personal success formula to enjoy a higher level of success. Achieve better, faster, and more effective results. Improve your success in a systematic way.

By choosing the path of Arete, while remembering that we’re human, fallible, and with feet of clay, we create an arena to be our best, in our own way.

Knowing how to V-Team with skill helps you make things happen. It’s also one of the best ways to scale your impact. When you partner and pair with other people, you can bite off more than you can chew alone. With a V-Team, you have a team of capabilities versus a team of one.

“I have developer’s disease. I love to sit at a drafting table and draw plans for hotels, wrestling with problems of traffic and the flow of people. That’s what turns me on.” — Steve Wynn

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.” – Steve Jobs
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jacob Sokol.  It’s the story of how he found his happiness path.
I say path because it’s a journey.  What Jacob figured out is how to drive from his happiness. That doesn’t mean there are no setbacks and things don’t go wrong.  They do.  But driving from happiness mean Jacob sets the stage to spend more of his time doing what …

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Orna Drawas. Her focus is on helping working professionals become rock stars at work, while achieving work-life balance. She is the author of the book, Perform Like A Rock Star and Still Have Time for Lunch and her book was recently on the Amazon’s list of Top 10 Books for Business Success.

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

One of the best ways to deal with change is to anticipate it. At the beginning of each year, I take a step back to see the forest for the trees.

“If you don’t design your life, someone else will design it for you and you just might not like their idea of balance.” – Nigel Marsh

Work-life balance continues to be an ongoing challenge as the boundaries between work and life blend and blur in our “always on”, increasingly connected world.

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” — James Openheim

One of my former managers is going on their next adventure and we got to talking about how you know when you’re making the right moves and what really matters. It really comes down to just a few vital things that you can use to stay the course of life.

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee

How do you make sense of what’s driving a manager or the people around you that you work with everyday? If you understand what’s driving people, you can better understand the behaviors, blend your behaviors, and anticipate situations.

“Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.” — Glenda Cloud

The field you’re in can slow you down or it can speed up your career success.

Whether you find the free prize or not, this post will make you think.

“Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” – August Wilson

As a parting gift at the end of one of my projects, I wanted everybody to walk away with their list of personal strengths. Not just a list that I made up, or their own list, but a list of strengths through the eyes of the team.

When i first joined Microsoft, I felt like I had joined an elite team of smart people that gets results. Microsoft is a big place, and I had joined the Developer Support Team. It was an interesting team and I was surrounded by people who worked smarter, harder, faster, and more effective than anything I had ever seen before. There were people that built robots and people that built rockets. There were former accountants and former professors. The intellectual horsepower was stunning and so was the passion.

I was curious how I too could become a skilled Softie.

Editor’s note: Meet Dan Schawbel. Dan’s super skill is personal branding and he has an impressive set of credentials.

Dan is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, an award winning blogger at Personal Branding Blog, the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine, a national speaker and consultant on branding, and a BusinessWeek columnist. He’s been called a “Personal Branding Guru” by The New York Times and has been featured in over 150 media outlets.

Here’s a post that I originally published on my work blog, but I thought the readers here would benefit from it too. It’s a simple model for thinking about your career growth. With things like a “jobless economic recovery,” careers ending, and a “skills-for-hire” economy, it’s even more important to focus on growth while managing your career. At the end of the day, YOU play the most important role in your career growth – own it.

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell
How can you become a leader in your field?  A colleague shared a link to How to Be a Leader, which I found interesting.   I think the key takeaway is that to be a leader in your field, you help move the ball forward. 
You Need More Than the Skills You Got In School Philip writes:
“To succeed in your career, you need more than the skills that …

I’m a fan of lenses to help me get a better perspective or vantage point. If you’re looking for a job or thinking about your career, you can use Holland’s theory of career choice to help you find a better fit. John L. Holland identified 6 personality and work environment types. According to Holland, if you can match your personality type and your work environment, you can improve your success and satisfaction.

If you’re not good at something, is it a weakness? If you’re good at something, is it a strength? No, it’s not that simple. There’s a difference between natural talents or strengths, and things that you learn over time by building skills and knowledge. There are many things that when you start out, you will be unskilled. That’s not a weakness. I’ll pause right there, to let that sink in. It’s a key concept when you’re trying to figure out your strengths and weaknesses.