Possessing optimism and conviction is seen as one of the most important qualities one must have in order to make his or her ambitions a reality. One’s commitment to one’s work is a major factor in one’s professional success. You need to be committed to your chosen field of work or your personal ambitions. Being enthusiastic about your work is essential because you may forget about succeeding if you lack that. The absence of hope and conviction renders almost everything else irrelevant. Even if it doesn’t boost your performance, people will have a better view of you as a person if they see that you’re dedicated and have a good attitude in the office. The same is true of success; when individuals sense it knocking, they actively move their “attitude” forward to answer the call. This attempt will be fruitful if it determines that the host is fit but will be doomed if the host is found to be unsuitable.

“Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

A significant role of knowledge may be seen in everything that you do. It can help you generate more money, improve your decision-making skills, make you a better athlete, teach you how to take better care of your health, and a lot of other things as well. However, an alarmingly large number of individuals believe that their education is complete after they have completed high school or college. They let out a sigh of relief and believe that they have succeeded. After this, all that’s left to do is obtain a job and coast through the years until retirement. However, this is the incorrect point of view to hold. Benjamin Franklin famously stated, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” He was well aware of the need to always expand one’s horizons of knowledge.

Literally, every successful person in the history of the world has one thing in common: they make it a daily practice to educate themselves by reading often and giving themselves new information. The same goes for Dr. Jan Mielke Schwartz, who firmly walked on the path of obtaining knowledge and education. Dr. Janet Schwartz attended Valparaiso University for her undergraduate degree in education before moving on to the University of Pittsburgh for her master’s and Ph.D. studies. She received the University Scholar award, given to “one of those who show the great potential of the major contribution to society and advancement,” when she was a student at the University of Pittsburgh. She did her clinical research internship in Pittsburgh at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic’s Children’s Psychiatric Treatment Services Unit under Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D., who later became president of the American Psychological Association in 2008.

Building a Foundation for Future Achievement

We’re often taught that the key to success is putting in long hours at work. But the fact of the matter is that putting forth a lot of effort by itself does not always pay off. Although an arduous effort is often the foundation upon which great accomplishments are built, it is not necessarily the case that these prosperous businesspeople who are now pessimists have beaten the odds only via lax effort. Either they have made a conscious decision not to discuss this aspect of their history with others, or they have lost memory of the impetus that initially led to all of this.

For the last seventeen years, Jan has committed her life to work with children and families. Before she attended graduate school to become a family psychologist, she worked as a child counselor at a shelter for victims of domestic abuse in addition to teaching kindergarten, first grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade. She also oversaw a gifted program for middle school students. In spite of this, the realization that some proof existed propelled her towards a profession in forensic fraud research rather than her long-held goal of opening a free family counseling clinic one day. The evidence, which evolved into several state and multi-state investigations, required a considerable deal of work and exceptional levels of coordination. As the years went on, Schwartz continued her efforts to gather intelligence that contributed to the strengthening of the country and helped build a better and safer world. As a result, she became a nationally recognized expert on white-collar organized crime as well as the organized white-collar community.

Talent Never Go Waste

After all, advancing in your job is directly proportional to the talents you possess, the amount of effort you put in, or even the quality of the work you do. Even if they may not have the most original ideas or the greatest ability, some individuals are able to acquire easier access than others to the essential components of money, time, and relationships that help to split the waters in the workplace through sheer dedication and extraordinary talent. Dr. Jan Schwartz is President of Forensic Fraud Research, Inc., a non-profit, not-for-fee investigative firm that was formally incorporated in 2000 and became affiliated with the National White Collar Crime Center in 2003. As a forensic behavioral scientist, Dr. Schwartz has compiled data for and provided information to the HIDTA Money-Laundering Division of the FBI in Manhattan, the FBI in Washington, D.C., the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, the Ohio Governor’s Office, and 19 other state departments in addition to various United States Attorney’s Offices.

Our life molds down to the patterns that we choose to opt-in our life. If we choose optimism over pessimism, optimism will start to choose us. If we go after success over failure, success will start following us. Dr. Jan Mielke Schwartz traced a fine line between optimism and success on one side and pessimism and failure on the other side. She is considered to be among one of the most theoretically minded, hopeful, and erudite professionals in the fields of Criminology, Forensic Behavioral Science, Intelligence, and Homeland Security.

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