Search
Related Links

 

 

Informative Articles

Five Stumbling Blocks To Successful Networking And How To Overcome Them
The ability to connect with people is essential to success in any business. Professional networking events present opportunities to interact with others on a personal level and to develop profitable relationships. These occasions are critical for...

Fuel Index ( A measuring stick for a company's success)
Every company has a Vision, a Mission and a set of core values. Companies develop multiple strategies that implemente the Values to realize their Mission. I always wondered, 1) Is there any relationship between a company's values and it's success?...

PR Essential to your Success
Whether you are a business, non-profit or association manager, your success will depend, to a large degree, on how well you positively impact the behaviors of those outside audiences that most affect your operation. You need to create...

Secrets of Creating Success with Ease
Do you ever strum your fingers on the desk top as you look down at your work and think, ‘Right, how can I do all this lot without really working?’ Brought up in an era with a cliché that went: ‘You must work hard for a living’ my attitude to work...

Two Steps to Improving Your Marketing Success
Since the human brain seems to be able to focus on only one thought at a time, it's difficult to evaluate an advertising idea from the perspective of both a marketer and a customer. That's why it's necessary to use a two-step process when...

 
Business & Career Success: Know Your Ruling Star!


Business and Career Success: Know Your Ruling Star!
by James Clayton Napier

"Know your Ruling Star. One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds more luck in one office or position than in another, and all though his qualifications are equal or even identical. Let each man know his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without mistaking any other for it. Know how to transplant yourself. There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to make one's value felt.”
— Balthasar Gracian, (Spain, 1600's)

Have you ever felt, “Here I am, best job I ever had, good money, an excellent career move — but, what in the world am I doing here where I feel so alone and out-of-place with my surroundings? How did this happen to me?”

I’ve been there, because someone offered me a job and I accepted, knowing ahead-of-time, intuitively I wouldn’t feel at home in the town and surroundings.

Or — maybe you love your location but, sadly, are unable to find any openings in your field. I’ve been there also. Looking back on my years in Austin, Texas, I can’t believe the number of short-term, soul-emptying jobs I tried very hard and unsuccessfully do to. My job-duration ranged from only two hours (which was long enough when you hate what you are doing!) to several months (each day seeming like an eternity) before my opportunities in broadcasting finally came.

It’s a rare person these days who is able to say, “I love this community, love my home, love the work I do, get along great with my business colleagues and supervisors. How do you beat perfection?”

There is a wonderful quote I repeated to myself many, many times during my ups and downs in Texas.

“Hence the first principle in changing one’s character is to seek another environment, to let new forces play upon our unused chords, and draw from us a better music.” — Will Durant

That’s what I wanted! I wanted another location — another place — where new forces could play upon my unused chords and draw from me a better music.

“There are nations with whom one must cross their borders to make one's value felt." — Gracian

Yes! Yes! Yes! That’s what I wanted. To cross borders and feel my native talents valued again.

"Know your Ruling Star,” the Spanish priest Gracian wrote in The Art of Worldly Wisdom. “One man is better received by one nation than another, or is one welcome by one city than another. He finds more luck in one office or position than in another, and all though his qualifications are equal or even identical.”

We are better received in certain locations or areas than in others, welcomed when we show up, and we most certainly do find more luck in one place than another.

“But where, where, where is THAT PLACE?” I wondered.

In Texas, for every 100% plus I


gave in my career, the returns (feeling valued, appreciated, and being monetarily rewarded), always fell short.

I hosted a noon talk show for awhile at an Austin TV station. Our ratings were great. The guests I booked were top names in the literary, entertainment, self-improvement, and political arenas.

After our ratings came in one spring, I couldn’t believe how well the show was doing.

Several days later, however, the General Manager wanted to see me.

After all the years of my show’s success, he said, “James, I can’t complain about your ratings. That’s good for ad revenue, but I finally got a chance to see your show yesterday. As you know I only have a tenth grade education, never finished high school, started in sales, worked my way up to where I am today.” He beamed proudly, “I didn’t understand it.”

I knew when he said, “I didn’t understand it,” my show was doomed.
The GM was the standard by which all business decisions at our stations were made.

I wanted to call him, “Idiot,” but restrained myself.

My favorite line in Texas TV came from a female news director who told me, “You have a master’s degree. We don’t need people that smart to do the news.” I never worked at that station.

“Let each man know his luck as well as his talents. Follow your guiding star and help it without mistaking any other for it. Know how to transplant yourself,” Gracian reminds us.

Know how to transplant yourself!

Finally, I did transplant myself, once again. It was time to move from the newsroom and go into teaching; use, finally, that masters degree referred to earlier that wasn’t needed to report the news.

“There is a simple answer to the question ‘What is the purpose of our individual lives?” A.J. Ayer wrote. “They have whatever purpose we succeed in putting into them.”

Yet, if you believe you are being guided by and toward a higher destiny, as I do, use what others know (their gifts and resources) to inform and enlighten yourself.

I’ve also successfully used relocation astrology as an essential tool to follow my guiding star. Through my sessions with Cait Benten,who specializes in relocation astrology, I’m close, very close at last, to finding the balance of the “right place” and the “right work” combined.

“This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.astro-earth-relocation.com/james%20by%20phone.htm
http://www.astro-earth-relocation.com










About the Author


James has enjoyed a career as an award-winning television communicator and as a university professor. He shared meaning-filled conversations with film stars, recording artists, US Presidents and first ladies, state governors, world-famous authors, scientists, and people from most every walk of life.


 

Success.org - Action Principles - Free Empowerment Courses
Success.org - Home of the Action Principles and a Free Business Education on the web.
www.success.org
 
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Assists immigrants to Vancouver with settlement information, finding employment, parenting classes, information technology training, family and youth ...
www.success.bc.ca
 
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. - United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society
SUCCESS is a non-partisan citizen organization for the promotion of the well-being of Canadians and new immigrants and their participation in a just, ...
www.success.bc.ca
 
Success.com : The World Leader in Personal Development & Self-Help
Sign up for one of our online interactive Success University courses. We take our most popular audio programs and provide the full audio online along with ...
www.success.com
 
Success - In Business. In Life.
The only business magazine designed to inspire and guide motivated business people to lead truly successful lives.
www.successmagazine.com
 
Home - Dress for Success
Non-profit organization that provides interview suits, confidence boosts, and career development to low-income women in over 75 cities worldwide. Success ...
www.dressforsuccess.org
 
Interviewing Success
Information on all aspects of successful interviewing - preparation, performance, and follow-up for an entry level job interview.
www.collegegrad.com
 
Success in Mathematics
Success in Mathematics. Tips on how to study mathematics, how to approach problem-solving, how to study for and take tests, and when and how to get help. ...
euler.slu.edu
 
Sites to Promote Academic Success
Sites to Promote Academic Success ... You can also explore your learning style and explore some excellent general academic success sites. ...
www.uni.edu
 
Success Consciousness
SuccessConsciousness offers guidance, advice, articles and ebooks on self-improvement, spiritual growth, peace of mind, meditation, positive thinking, ...
www.successconsciousness.com
 
The Internet Marketing Center | Secrets to Their Success
As a member of "Secrets To Their Success", you'll receive an e-mail each month ... To keep "Secrets To Their Success" private site a manageable size, ...
www.secretstotheirsuccess.com
 
Made For Success
Motivational speaker. Includes information on products and seminars.
www.madeforsuccess.com
 
SuccessFactors Employee Performance Management Software
SuccessFactors performance management software is a flexible, affordable, on-demand system used by nearly 2 million people in companies large & small.
www.successfactors.com
 
30 Days to Success
I was inspired to take this challenge by Steve Pavlina’s Entry “30 days to success”. I really like that method, and it has shown posit […] ...
www.stevepavlina.com
 
Success for All Foundation
We build adolescent literacy with middle school reading programs and middle grades reading interventions that engage young adolescents.
www.successforall.net
 
SUCCESS Mission Home Page
SUCCESS. SUbsonic aircraft: Contrail & Cloud Effects Special Study. Click here for a list of GRL publications · Mission Overview · End of Mission Statement ...
cloud1.arc.nasa.gov
 
When Job-Hunting: Dress for Success
One of the keys to a successful job interview: dressing for success. Here are some free expert tips and resources for both men and women.
www.quintcareers.com
 
SuccessLink
SuccessLink is an non-profit organization dedicated to improving classroom instruction and learning.
www.successlink.org
 
Mind Tools - Self-Study Management Training, Career Training ...
With Mind Tools' "Make Time for Success" self-study time management and personal effectiveness training, discover the 39 essential tools needed to maximize ...
www.mindtools.com
 
Success - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMAS Success (H-02), an S class destroyer launched in 1918 ... S.U.C.C.E.S.S., a non-profit organization aiding new East Asian immigrants in the Lower ...
en.wikipedia.org
 
 

 

Content Menu
  • 10 essentials for success in private practice

  • 10 essential steps to developing a successful e mail marketing campaign

  • 10 habits of highly unsuccessful business owners and managers

  • 10 principles of success

  • 10 profit boosting tips to increase the success of your affiliate program

  • 10 secrets of successful entrepreneurs

  • 11 success tips to home based internet business

  • 12 tips to network your way to success

  • 19 ultimate success tips for your online business

  • 3 keys to building a successful online business

  • 3 steps to home business success

  • 4 simple steps to successful delegation

  • 4 steps to success in life business the universe and

  • 5 essential ingredients to success with your own business

  • 5 simple steps to internet business success

  • 5 top proven ways of driving traffic to your website as practiced and used by successful internet marketer around the world

  • 6 keys to successfully screening church staff and volunteers

  • 6 proven steps to internet marketing success

  • 7 habits of highly successful small business owners

  • 7 insider tips to joint venture success

  • 7 keys to running a successful business

  • 7 lean marketing laws for the inspired entrepreneur who wants more success by doing spending less

  • 7 must have traits for work at home success

  • 7 power packed tips to increase your ezine publishing success

  • 7 profit producing reasons why every successful service professional needs a web presence

  • 7 strategies for feeding success thoughts to your brain

  • 7 tips for building a successful downline team

  • 7 tips for success

  • 7 tips for successful blogging

  • 7 tips for successful telecom contract negotiation

  • 7 tips to jump start your public speaking success

  • 7 ways to choose your own home businessfor maximum success

  • 8 tips for starting and maintaining a successful online forum

  • 8 tips for successful link blitz management

  • 9 razor sharp strategies for building success and adding zeroes to checking account balance

  • achieve success with your own money making newsletter

  • all successful entrepreneurs do this

  • all successful entrepreneurs have this

  • an internet success

  • an internet success story

  • apply the top 8 secrets to successfully work at home

  • are you set up for success

  • are you working towards success

  • at least 7 success tips for a more profitable 2004 online

  • automatic internet marketing and business success on a 25 00 budget

  • a big secret of successful people

  • a mentor can make you a smashing success

  • a practical guide for small business success

  • a proven system that made me 73k in one week the 1 thing i learned you must have for a successful home business

  • a simple formula for success

  • back to the basics how to successfully start an online business

  • become a certified success in the world of business and finance

  • becoming wise wild free writing a successful business plan part 2 do it in steps

  • being a learner not mba business plans key to success are you a learner

  • being successful with your home business

  • build a successful business by staying connected

  • build your business success one step at a time

  • business career success know your ruling star

  • business opportunities personal qualities for success

  • business opportunity essentials for success

  • business success models for the 21st century

  • business transactions in germany how to triple your success

  • can anyone become a successful business person

  • can i be successful in my own home business

  • can the average person be successful in an online business

  • celebrating successes the power of compliments

  • choking on itil a menu for success

  • coaching for success

  • coaching your small business to success

  • conquering confidence killers for small business success

  • create a blueprint for your success

  • create credibility for success

  • create your vision of success

  • creating information products for money image and success

  • creating success with newbies in e business

  • creativity for success

  • define success

  • defining success your way

  • dialogue the four dialogic principles for successful communication

  • discover how to make the success generating imagination work for you

  • discover the secret to success in your own back yard

  • dispel the myths and find success

  • do the people in your organisation dress for success

  • do you have the mindset of a successful business man

  • do you know the 4 traits that guarantee home business success

  • dressing tips for interview success

  • dropship your way to success

  • dr robert anthony reveals how to use quantum physics to supercharge your internet marketing success

  • eight success tips for your first trade show booth

  • employee motivation checklist ten measures of success

  • executive esp a pathway to success

  • expect success to stay self motivated and get great results

  • failing forward successfully

  • family business succession planning

  • fast track your journey to online success

  • financial success secret

  • five stumbling blocks to successful networking and how to overcome them

  • five tips for trade show success on a small budget

  • five tips to create a master plan for professional success

  • focus and fear of success the biggest monkey on your back

  • focus is the key to a successful startup

  • focus on success 8211 how to make affiliates work for you

  • four critical success factors for business results

  • four models of successful internet business sites

  • four principles of emerging market success

  • four steps to eliminate frustration and turn your online failure into internet success

  • franchises success and you

  • fuel index a measuring stick for a companys success

  • fuel index a measuring stick of a companys success

  • george bushs secret to successful internet marketing

  • getting your video successfully produced why quality is key and how to get it

  • goal setting for a successful home business

  • gomembers virtual booth for asae annual conference a big success

  • he top 10 strategies for the positioning of success

  • home business success

  • home business success steps

  • home business tips secret success com

  • how a tiny 10 year old girl can throw a 20 stone man 3 key lessons in the gentle art of business success

  • how becoming an expert can boost your success

  • how do you define your success

  • how important is content to a successful website

  • how i learned to make 100k per month the 2 thing i learned you must have in a successful home business

  • how joint ventures can catapult you to success

  • how one product made me into a millionaire the 4th thing i learned you must have in a successful home business

  • how safe is your success part 1 of 8

  • how safe is your success part 2 of 8

  • how safe is your success part 3 of 8

  • how safe is your success part 4 of 8

  • how safe is your success part 5 of 8

  • how safe is your success part 6 of 8

  • how safe is your success part 7 of 8

  • how safe is your success part 8 of 8

  • how to achieve e commerce success you gotta plan

  • how to become a successful entrepreneur on the web

  • how to become successful at everything you do

  • how to be associated with a successful business product

  • how to be successful in small business

  • how to create an easy team building contest for network marketing success

  • how to create your own successful and profitable affiliate program

  • how to implement e business solutions successfully

  • how to kick start your business and skyrocket your success

  • how to locate drop shippers for your success

  • how to make a joint venture successful

  • how to make success a habit

  • how to motivate your self towards online business success

  • how to network your way to success

  • how to run a successful affiliate program

  • how to start a successful business

  • how to start your own business and be successful

  • how to stay on track all the way to success

  • how to successfully work from home

  • how to use humor successfully in your business communications

  • how two powerful words can guarantee you success

  • identifying work at home success characteristics

  • image is key to your marketing success

  • important qualities of successful home business owners

  • improving your ceo succession odds

  • index

  • instant rapport the key to sales success

  • internet millionaire mindset is your brain sabotaging your marketing success

  • internet success recipe

  • in control inside tips on interview success

  • in depth analysis of a successful niche product

  • join in on the success of the 2nd wave of affiliate marketing

  • love of reading can predict your online success

  • mark victor hansen to keynote success summit

  • masterminding your way to greater success

  • master rules to life business success

  • millionaire mindset is your brain sabotaging your wealth and success

  • mlm network marketing training are you thinking yourself out of mlm success

  • mlm success training why some people become wealthy in network marketing and others dont

  • not 10 not 6 not 3 only two two secrets to online success

  • online marketing simplified 2 pillars to your success

  • online marketing success formulas

  • online success

  • organized for success five keys for making home work work

  • people skills drive leadership success

  • perserverance for home business success

  • post your way to success

  • power tips for a successful home business

  • preparing for your success

  • price of success

  • profiles of success issue 47 allpiercings com follow up

  • profiles of success issue 79 allpiercings com one year later

  • profile your business for success

  • progress to success

  • project program management best practices for success in any industry

  • promote yourself more successfully

  • proven online business success in 3 easy steps

  • pr a potent force for success

  • pr essential to your success

  • psychology of success

  • quantum success thinking

  • radical success

  • reasons for individual corporate and national success and

  • reinventing failure designing success

  • remember the 7 words of success

  • restaurant scheduling for success

  • rotator

  • sales success the 5 steps

  • secrets of creating success with ease

  • secrets to business success on the internet

  • secrets to successful publishing

  • self confidence is the key to personal and professional success

  • seminar success strategies how to action what you learn

  • simple business tactics are your key to success

  • six pillars of business marketing success

  • small business success its a matter of confidence

  • starting a successful business

  • starting a successful dropshipping business

  • starting out for success

  • starting your own business failures to avoid to ensure your future business success and research you should do now if you havent already

  • start a business without a masterplan for success and youre 95 certain to fail

  • stop slacking and take action tid bit tips for online success

  • successfully adding a service to your business

  • successfully meeting and greeting ten strategies for getting off to a good start

  • successful small businesses use pr

  • successful tendering preparation is the key

  • successful tendering there are many solutions

  • succession planning 10 vital points for business success

  • success and communication

  • success at work people skills networking

  • success from failure is as simple as focus plan execute

  • success is a choice

  • success is no accident

  • success leaves clues

  • success of failure

  • success tips for small business owners

  • success tip making your business look bigger to your customers

  • surefire ways to attain moneymaking success

  • swotting for success

  • systems marketing your business successfully

  • take charge seven tips to successful meetings

  • team success with innies why you want them on your team and how to help them excel

  • ten steps to mlm success

  • the 10 success basics for your online business

  • the 1 secret of success

  • the 3 big points to selling successfully on the web

  • the 3 elements you need for successful home business

  • the 6 secrets to sales success

  • the 7 best kept secrets to ultimately achieve success in your life and your home business

  • the 7 traits of an exceptional and successful entrepreneur

  • the 7 traits of an exceptional successful entrepreneur

  • the 9 critical steps to success in demolishing your money worries for good

  • the biggest secret that will guarantee your online success

  • the essential must dos of business success

  • the game plan the difference between small business success and failure

  • the home business dilemma success vs failure

  • the keys to buying motivation unlock the door to sales success

  • the key ingredients for success with your own home based business

  • the key points of successful online business

  • the key to success choose the right partner

  • the key to success in your home based business

  • the magic the mystery of success

  • the metamorphosis of the successful executive overcoming professional stagnation

  • the minefield to online success

  • the missing link to your business success

  • the real key to happiness peace of mind and massive internet success

  • the real secret to success

  • the road to success

  • the road to success a c t i o n

  • the secrets to success discovered through self promotion

  • the secret to adwords success

  • the secret to beating tiger woods at golf and its correlation to success in business

  • the secret to having a successful online business

  • the secret to success

  • the seven essential elements to successful business communication

  • the seven keys to successful offsite meeting management

  • the seven vital steps you must know to ensure direct mail success

  • the six most common barriers to sales success

  • the small business success summit october 10 2003 to october 12 2003

  • the steps from product idea to product success

  • the success formula revealed

  • the top 10 strategies for the positioning of success

  • three key facets of successful network marketing

  • three steps to internet success

  • time management and success

  • top 10 lessons for small business success as learned from my twin 3 year olds

  • top 10 secrets to success

  • top 10 tips on running a widely successful and profitable business online

  • top 6 business success strategies

  • top 8 ways to make your business a success

  • top ten brainstorming techniques for business success

  • to be successful in network marketing requires one thing success in life

  • to be successful sell to wants not needs

  • transform your image and accelerate your success

  • transform your office into a powerhouse of success

  • trial and error persistence successful marketing

  • true success in wood and water

  • two steps to improving your marketing success

  • universal success secrets

  • universal success secrets shared

  • use auction templates for ebay success

  • variable data digital printing for your success

  • visualise your way to home business success

  • website manifestation 7 steps to a successful site

  • webtoors guide to success

  • we do eat our young the story of a successful home business

  • what bowling and success have in common

  • what does success look like

  • what is your legacy of success

  • what to do when successful training fails

  • while youre reading success books youre losing money

  • work at home become an internet success using this revolutionary marketing system

  • your path to internet success

  • your recipe for online success

  • your thinking to breed success

  • your worst enemy to successful investing the media

  • you can become a successful internet entrepreneur