42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success : a Guide to Common Sense Career Development and Entrepreneurial Achievement

'42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Personal and Professional Success' is a guide to common sense career development, entrepreneurial achievement and life skills. Author Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, has been helping people succeed for over 30 years. He's spent the last 10 years studying successful people, cracking the code to success. He shares what he's learned in this book. Bud shares stories of personal and professional triumphs and failures and what he learned from them. He also tells other people's stories that he finds inspiring. Written in a straightforward, common sense manner, '42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Personal and Professional Success' provides the reader with practical, down to earth advice on how to create a successful life and career. In this book you will learn how to: take responsibility for your life and career become more self confident create positive personal impact become and outstanding performer become a dynamic communicator become more interpersonally competent. Others have called Bud's writing on personal and professional success, "brilliant," "authentic yet forceful," "practical and actionable," and "easily readable wisdom." Get your own copy of 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Personal and Professional Success and see for yourself. Copyright Page......Page 4 Praise For This Book!......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Other Books by Bud Bilanich......Page 9 Praise for Bud Bilanich's Books......Page 10 Foreword by Cynthia Brian......Page 17 Intro......Page 19 Rule 1: Rules Were Meant to be Broken......Page 22 Rule 2: Clarify Your Purpose......Page 24 Rule 3: Take Personal Responsibility for Your Professional Success......Page 26 Section I: Self Confidence......Page 28 Rule 4: Build Your Self Confidence......Page 30 Rule 5: Become an Optimist......Page 32 Rule 6: Harness the Power of Affirmations......Page 34 Rule 7: Face Your Fears and Act......Page 36 Rule 8: Surround Yourself With Positive People......Page 38 Rule 9: Find a Mentor......Page 40 Rule 10: Mentor Others......Page 42 Section II: Positive Personal Impact......Page 44 Rule 11: Create Positive Personal Impact......Page 46 Rule 12: Develop and Nurture Your Unique Personal Brand......Page 48 Rule 13: Use the Web to Reinforce Your Brand Constantly and Consistently......Page 50 Rule 14: Become Active on LinkedIn......Page 52 Rule 15: Make Integrity the Cornerstone of Your Brand......Page 54 Rule 16: Dress One Level Up......Page 56 Rule 17: Manage Your Online Presence......Page 58 Rule 18: Always Be a Lady or Gentleman......Page 60 Rule 19: Know and Use Proper Business Meal Etiquette......Page 62 Rule 20: Business Meals Are Not About the Food......Page 64 Section III: Outstanding Performance......Page 66 Rule 21: Become an Outstanding Performer......Page 68 Rule 22: Become a Lifelong Learner......Page 70 Rule 23: Set High Goals—and Achieve Them......Page 72 Rule 24: Manage Your Time Well......Page 74 Rule 25: Live a Healthy Lifestyle......Page 76 Section IV: Dynamic Communication......Page 78 Rule 26: Become a Dynamic Communicator......Page 80 Rule 27: Questions Make for Good Conversation......Page 82 Rule 28: Listening and Responding Appropriately Makes for Better Conversation......Page 84 Rule 29: Clear Writing Is Fundamental to Dynamic Communication......Page 86 Rule 30: Choose Your Words Carefully......Page 88 Rule 31: Presentations Are Opportunities to Shine......Page 90 Rule 32: Stories Make Presentations Come Alive......Page 92 Rule 33: Make Your Nerves Work for You......Page 94 Section V: Interpersonal Competence......Page 96 Rule 34: Become Interpersonally Competent......Page 98 Rule 35: Get to Know Yourself......Page 100 Rule 36: Strong Relationships Will Enhance Your Professional Success......Page 102 Rule 37: Make Regular Deposits to Your Emotional Bank Accounts......Page 104 Rule 38: Resolve Conflict Positively......Page 106 Rule 39: Be Assertive, Not Aggressive......Page 108 Rule 40: Be Generous......Page 110 Rule 41 Knowing is Not Enough......Page 112 Rule 42: These Are My Rules. What Are Yours?......Page 114 About the Author......Page 116 Appendix A: Books to Read......Page 118 Appendix B: Online Resources......Page 124 Appendix C: Your Observations......Page 128 Your Rules......Page 130 Books......Page 132 A Message From Super Star PressTM......Page 134 Annotation. Career coach Bilanich offers stories of personal and professional triumphs and failures and what he learned from them. He shares practical, down to earth advice on how to create a successful life and career