Ever wonder how the people around you got their jobs? Ever look back and think about where you thought you’d end up? (Audio interviews below)
Heroes’ stories are everywhere — in the news, the memories of your taxi driver, the pages of your favorite book. Everyone has a calling in life. People find fulfillment by pursing them [...]

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He sings with Elmo, grows avocados, and has great advice for entrepreneurs. Read singer Jason Mraz’s five tips for running a business.
Jason Mraz is best known for his music, but he’s also an entrepreneur. In 2004, still in his 20’s, he was looking for a quiet place to work on his next album and ended [...]

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Have you taken an honest look at yourself in the mirror lately and evaluated your progress towards your calling? Do you even have criteria for self-evaluation? What does success mean to you?
Jeff Brenzel, the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale, wrote an imaginary commencement address (Bill Clinton gave the real one) for the Huffington Post, where [...]

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Wondering what makes Acton such a different business school?
In a recent article on Forbes.com, Shaun Rein, a Harvard MBA grad, talks about the three big lessons he didn’t learn at Harvard. While we respect Harvard (a few of our teachers even went there), we do things a little differently at the Acton School of Business. [...]

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I recently read an article in the Daily Telegraph about an Austrian man, Karl Rabeder, who made millions in the interior furnishings and accessories business and is now giving it all away. He’s moving out of his luxury Alpine villa (complete with lake, sauna, and beautiful views) to live in a small, wooden hut [...]

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Are you thinking about making a drastic change in order to find job satisfaction? Read this post by Master Teacher Steven Tomlinson first.
In the current issue of Fast Company, Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do with My Life?, offers some cheeky tough-love for those of us looking to boost career satisfaction: [...]

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See why Steven Pressfield’s book will help you stop procrastinating and follow your calling.
If you keep resolving to make some significant change in your life, like reinvent your career or develop a neglected talent, but can’t seem to stick with it, Steven Pressfield has written the book for you. In The War [...]

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It’s great if you turn a recent layoff, cutback or downsizing into an opportunity. Just do a little research first.
With dour economic news pretty much anywhere you turn, it’s no surprise that news outlets are trying to find a silver lining — something positive to report. They have found that story in entrepreneurs. [...]

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With Pre-Matriculation quickly approaching, I’ve had the chance to re-read over my favorite Acton notes. One of them, “An Introduction to the Journey of Personal Transformation,” is assigned during the first week.

Acton provides a curriculum that is designed to help students find their “calling.” This process includes the difficult, but rewarding, journey of personal [...]

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As the new Acton class ventures into their first weeks of Pre-Matriculation, we are once again pulling the all-important Acton notes for them to read. My favorite: “Stars & Steppingstones: Some choices only come around once.”  Consider this excerpt from the note:
Life is a journey, not a destination. But this does not mean that life [...]

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