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I literally have never accomplished…

I literally have never accomplished more in a year, BYLR, Jesse and this community are so motivating and inspiring! It is like a force that motivates you to just keep doing amazing things and adding new experiences to your life. If you want to seriously level up your daily life, you have to join the BYLR Calendar Club. Absolutely Obsessed with this CLUB!

Date of experience : April 28, 2022

Seriously THE BEST!!

Seriously THE BEST calendar/planner I have every owned! Jesse and team over deliver on EVERY aspect of their programs - and the Big A$$ Calendar itself is a huge asset for our family to plan and execute at EPIC year!!! There is nothing else like this on the market if you’re looking to knock big trips and big dreams off your bucket list!! We appreciate you, Jesse and Team!! THANK YOU for giving us a community and physical planning tool to make our dreams come true!!

Date of experience : April 20, 2022

BEST CLUB & MENTORSHIP EVER

I don’t know of any better place to be a member and get well beyond what was promised. Jesse Itzler not only COMPLETELY OVERDELIVERS consistently but he also is an INCREDIBLE mentor who LEADS BY EXAMPLE. Not only just as an entrepreneur but as a husband, dad, son, friend, and most of all as showing self care and self respect. Jesse Itzler and his Calendar Club are REMARKABLE! If you are not in the club, you are MISSING OUT BIG TIME!

Making Life Simple

What value you think you are going to get is not what you actually are going to get. I came to BYLR for a community to push me so I could be more committed to changing my energy level through fitness. Four month's in and I am learning so much about parenting, health, discipline, and overall fulfillment in life. Jessie is a rockstar!!

Date of experience : April 21, 2022

Jesse is an inspirational leader

Jesse is an inspirational leader. The way I was living my life was very close to the BYLR core values. I am always trying to do more, experience life, and live outside my comfort zone. I've always tried to pick one thing that I was working towards every year and put my all into. BLYR has given me a community that thinks just like me. I love it!!

I was very disappointed in the product…

I was very disappointed in the product quality. The paper bent very easily in the non-pre-folded places. And it’s so heavy that it doesn’t hang on the wall with regular wall adhesives. I’ve reached out to the company and haven’t received feedback or help.

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This calendar has helped me in unexpected ways.

This calendar has helped me in unexpected ways. Not only has it gotten me organized for training for my running races and getting family trips booked but it has also helped me with parenting. My daughter had a big sports event that fell on the same weekend as a running race. With the colour coding I could see all my events vs hers. Laid out like that it made it very obvious that I could miss that event and still have a really full year. But if I missed going to her's I might not get a chance to see her compete very much in the season. I'm sure I would have chosen to support her either way but the calendar gave me a great and positive perspective on how easy it was to do it all and maintain healthy balance.

Such a great community

Such a great community! The coaching, accountability, and new experiences are second to none. Highly recommend if you're looking to get more our of life than just living each day on repeat.

Positive Experience from NYC

I've been having such a positive experience since I joined The Calendar Club! Being part of the BYLR Community has opened my eyes to see new possibilities and opportunities ! On a personal level I've started to see tremendous growth within myself, taking more risks and branching out to develop new relationships! FIVE STAR all the way⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️‼️

Big A## Calendar

My step sister bought me the Big A## Calendar for my birthday gift this year and when I first opened it, I thought yea, it's a really big calendar, but after I filled it out, and then started watching the weekly motivations and the kick-off call with Jesse, I understood that it is a way of life and wow! My life has already transformed in the last few months since incorporating the calendar and methodology into my daily routine, I'm telling you, if you are looking for a change or a way to level up your life experiences, this is the way!

Date of experience : April 27, 2022

I LOVE my Big Ass Calendar

I LOVE my Big Ass Calendar! The best part is that it really has inspired me to take more time for fun with friends and family. Its so easy to let the year get away from you and with the big ass calendar you schedule special time for you, kids , relationships and even the big life goal you have! Everyone should do this!

It’s GROW time!

I’ve been involved in this incredible community since it’s inception and what makes it so special is the motivation, the incredible app, variety of class and event offerings, and the people! BYLR and the Calendar Club is second to none!

I am loviing my big A$$ calendar

I am loviing my big A$$ calendar; how practical it is and especially how encouraging to focus on one thing in the year and try four mini adventures as well as acquire new habits. I am so pumped about starting Intermitting Fasting.

What a way to plan out your entire…

What a way to plan out your entire year, and visualize your goals! Mine is on my wall in my bedroom so my wife can see what I’m doing also, not her favorite thing hanging on the wall, but it sure comes in handy when she wants to know where I’m going to be when planning trips! Thanks again, Chris

BIG A** Calendar Indeed.

BIG A** Calendar Indeed. -Great Product for recording my whole year in one place. I have two calendars now and plan to have every year to come. I'm in my early 20's and am excited to show my family when I'm old all the things I was doing.

Exceptional experience with wonderful…

Exceptional experience with wonderful people

BYLR stands for "Build Your Life Resume". You see, we don't believe in resumes in the traditional sense… we believe in life resumes. Doing more. Accumulating experiences. Living life for a living.

The reality is the more you experience the more you have to offer. This community was established to help people get more out of life. Period. Sure we have work, responsibilities and obligations….but we also only have one go around at life.

BYLR was founded by Jesse Itzler, a serial entrepreneur, author, endurance athlete and part owner of the Atlanta Hawks. Over the last years Jesse has amassed an amazing life resume. He built and sold multiple businesses, ran 100 mile races, was a rapper, lived on a monastery with monks, managed RUN DMC , wrote a #1 bestselling book and has raised an amazing family along the way.

In BYLR the goal is to share Jesse's best practices, mentors and advisors with the BYLR community. We want everyone to leave with winning habits, winning routines and a winning mindset.

Through our programs like 30 Days of Excellence, The Big A## Calendar Club, Camp BYLR and our foundational BYLR course (which is on this portal) we offer a variety of ways for you to start building a life of memories and accomplishments.

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Jesse Itzler is an Emmy Award winning artist, New York Times Bestselling author, part owner of the Atlanta Hawks, ultramarathon runner, and exceptional husband, father, and businessman with 5 big exits including Marquis Jet, Zico Coconut Water, and 29029 Everesting.

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"Working with Jesse is life-changing. You are guaranteed to change your mindset and improve the areas of your life that matter to you most."

"Jesse has shown me that time is our most valuable resource, and now I approach my life with this completely shifted mindset of creating time for the things and people I love."

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Set aside time to build your life resume.

There’s one resource in this world we all take for granted: time.

We’re only on this planet for a small amount of time, and we tend to build routines in our lives that makes the days roll by.

The next thing we know, we look in the mirror and we’re 70. When you look at that face do you want to see a life of missed opportunities or one filled with experiences you are proud of?

If you want the latter, you need to make sure you schedule time for you. Take the time to build your life resume, because that’s what makes our lives much more interesting.

When you talk about someone, do you talk about how they clock in to work on time everyday at 9 am and work late hours? Or do you talk about the places they’ve been to, and the experiences they’ve had?

On this episode of The School of Greatness, I bring you back someone who has decided to build their life’s resume: Jesse Itzler.

Importance of taking advantage of time. Routine make life fly by. Make time for yourself – building life resume instead of business resume.

“I learn best by jumping into the unknown.”  

Jesse enjoys living life “out of the box.” In fact, he doesn’t even have a box. The author of the New York Times bestseller, Living with a Seal, co founded Marquis Jet, the world’s largest private jet card company which he and his partner sold to Berkshire Hathaway/NetJets. Jesse then partnered with Zico coconut water, which he and his partner sold to The Coca-Cola Company.

He’s also the kind of person that when he wants something he grabs onto the opportunity without delay. He recently decided he needed to detox his mind from electronics and the constant multitasking of today’s world.

He ended up living with monks, living in a room as small as a table, and unable to communicate with his family, just to find himself.

The lessons he learned most were about the need to make time for yourself and the people around you that you care most about. In the end, that’s where you’ll have the most impact and where your true legacy will come from.

Learn more lessons from Jesse’s isolation and time with the monks, on Episode 652.

“Praise the effort, not the result.”  

Some questions i ask:.

• How was your 15 day digital detox? (8:45)
• What are you not waiting for? (20:09)
• If you could go back 20 years, what would you eliminate or add to your life? (21:41)
• Do you still take 3 hours for yourself every day? (24:44)
• What do you think you can learn from pain? (29:14)
• What did the monks teach you about overcoming personal challenges? (32:52)
• What did the master’s say (about death)? (36:34)
• Have you and your wife ever struggled with competing with one another? (44:47)
• Do you ever have a fear that your kids are a little soft? (47:04)
• What are the things you’ve learned from your time in your monks you didn’t know before? (48:13)

In this episode, you will learn:

• When he had the idea to live with monks (10:50)
• What Jesse didn’t miss during his time away (14:51)
• How Jesse worked in the music business (17:07)
• The Kevin Rule (22:28)
• When Jesse started living this type of life (27:37)
• The biggest personal challenge he’s faced (30:29)
• Why death kept coming up in Jesse’s mind (34:40)
• How he maintains the spark of sexual desire and dynamic of business in his relationship (41:26)
• The greatest lessons his kids have taught him (45:40)
• Plus much more…

Show Notes:

• Living with the Monks
• 100 Mile Races
• Ultra Paddle Board Races
• Hiking Mt. Washington
• James Lawrence: The Iron Cowboy
• Badwater Race

Transcript of this Episode

Lewis Howes:               This is episode number 652, with New York Times bestselling author, Jesse Itzler.

Welcome to The School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howes, former pro-athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur and each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now, let the class begin.

Leo Christopher said, ” There’s only one thing more precious than our time, and that’s who we spend it on.”

I am excited about this episode, because I learned so much. I really dove in and asked Jesse about reflecting back on his life, now almost fifty years old, what are some things that he would do in his business, in his relationships, differently, if he was 35 years old, my age right now? Really leaned in on some of the perspectives he learned over this last year and so many things he’s been up to.

And if you don’t know who he is, he’s the author of the New York Times bestseller called, ‘Living With A SEAL’, where he had this extreme Navy SEAL live with him, his kids and his wife, for a period of time, in his home, and train him to have a tougher mentality. And this is a guy who has already an extreme mentality.

He co-founded Marquis Jets, the world’s largest private jet card company, which he and his partner then sold to Berkshire Hathaway and NetJets. Jesse then partnered with Zico Coconut Water, a water that I love, which he and his partner then sold to Coca-Cola. He’s an owner of the NBA’s Hawks, with his wife, Sara, and his new book is called, ‘Living With The Monks’. It’s out right now and it chronicles his 15 day stay with Russian Orthodox monks in a monastery in New York.

And in this episode we really dive into what made Jesse, rethink about his entire relationship with time, and what he wants to do with the rest of his life, now hitting 50. How much time, each day, you should be setting aside for yourself, because there’s a lot of people that don’t give themselves any time, and there’s other people that only do things for themselves. We talk about that.

We talk about a new definition of happiness, and how sometimes suffering can support happiness. Also, what Jesse learned living with monks for these two weeks, and how he and Sara have created such a strong marriage; Sara Blakely, his wife, who has been on the podcast as well.

And, as always, make sure to share this with your friends, tag me, @LewisHowes, on Instagram, tag @jesseitzler, and the link for this is lewishowes.com/652 to watch the full video and share it with your friends on Twitter, Instagram and social media.

I want to give a shout out to our Fan of the Week! We’ve had so many incredible fans reach out lately and share about their stories, their success stories, about how the podcast had changed their life, had impacted them, had helped them lose weight, find the relationship of their dreams, live more purposeful, fulfilling lifestyles.

And this one’s from Tori-Lee, who says, “Lewis, they say you can become similar to the five people you spend the most time with. I have been at a point in my life, where inspirational and enlightening influencers are lacking. I love this podcast and listen every day, hoping that I become more and more like the many people you bring on the show. Thank you! P.S. I think it would be great if you could gather quotes from every single person that you have on this podcast, speaking their three truths, and make a book out of it.”

So, Tori-Lee, thank you so much for being the fan of the week, and for sharing and we are working on that actually. We are working on collecting the Three Truths of everyone that we’ve asked the question to, and creating a little book out of that. And if you’d be interested in getting an early copy, just send me a DM on Instagram, again @LewisHowes, and let us know if you’d want to pre-order an early copy, because I’m curious to see how many people are interested in this little book.

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Alright guys, I’m excited about this one, it’s all about understanding how to have a better, richer, more fulfilling and meaningful life. Let’s dive in, with the one and only Jesse Itzler.

Welcome, everyone, back to The School of Greatness Podcast, we’ve got the legendary Jesse Itzler in the house.

Jesse Itzler:                   Ah, man! Thank you!

Lewis Howes:                My man, it’s good to see you back again! You got a new book called, ‘Living With The Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me About Happiness, Gratitude, And Focus’. Make sure you guys check it out and you got me up on the top of the cover, which is pretty cool! Just make sure you guys support our friend, Jesse and check this out, because I think it’s really powerful.

I did a digital detox two years ago, where I went to Hawaii, left my phone in L.A. and freaked out the first day and a half. Because I didn’t have directions to go anywhere, I went old school, 1999, pre-cellphone, and had to go to a gas station and ask for directions, and had to just be at peace in the ocean.

And, about day three, it was beautiful, because I didn’t think about going back on the beach, and being, like, “Where’s my phone and even check something. I could just be at peace. And it was unbelievable, because, for fifteen years, I realised I had my phone on me every single day, until that moment.

And now, I do this every year. I try to do it every six months. I went to Hawaii again, a couple of months ago, left my phone here, yeah, and beautiful experience. Now you did this for, what, 15 days?

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, what I love about this, I love the set-up. I love that you went to Hawaii, beautiful beach, ocean. I was in the middle of nowhere, in the woods.

Lewis Howes:                I know! I saw!

Jesse Itzler:                   I couldn’t walk on the sand! No, but same thing, I mean, it was so hard for me at first, just to separate, and just to be away from everything. Change is difficult for anybody, but change without technology, and change with family, and being away from that, and plus change in the wilderness, is not easy.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, because you have four kids, you didn’t talk to any of them during that time, right?

Jesse Itzler:                   No, no. I spoke to my wife once, a check-in from a landline.

Lewis Howes:                A ten minute, like, “Hey. I’m losing my mind, is everything okay?”

Jesse Itzler:                   Yes, exactly.

Lewis Howes:                Because she knows you’re crazy and she knows you do these experiments. What did you think you were going to learn, going into this experiment?

Jesse Itzler:                   Well, first of all, I’ve spent so much of my life exploring the physical side, and I’ve ran a 100 mile race, I’ve done ultra-paddleboard races and I’ve done marathons and I love that. I’ve learned a lot from those kinds of things, but I’ve completely neglected the inner work, and I just felt super distracted, a little bit overwhelmed, four kids, wife, work, just like everybody else.

And I just thought, “Well, who are the masters, who will be the best person or persons to talk about self-reflection and just..?” and it was monks. And I didn’t know anything about monk culture, I didn’t know anything other than watching a couple of movies and reading a couple of blogs, about the monk world.

So, I just said to my wife, “I think I want to go live in a monastery.” And her immediate reaction is, like, “Listen to Lewis.” Like, “There are podcasts for this s**t, man. You don’t have to go away to a monastery,” but I learn best, without question, by jumping into the unknown. That is the best teaching tool for me.

And it’s always been the way that I’ve gotten the most growth, and I’m just going to go. And I put the plan in motion pretty quickly.

Lewis Howes:                When did you have the idea? And then when did you go? Was it a month, a couple of weeks?

Jesse Itzler:                   It was fast.

Lewis Howes:                You have an idea, you told her about it…

Jesse Itzler:                   Otherwise I’m going to talk myself out of it.

Lewis Howes:                You will.

Jesse Itzler:                   So, Ready, fire, aim. Ready, fire, aim.” And that’s the difference. I’m in a relationship – my wife is a processor – everything gets analysed and processed and thought out. What are the pros? There’s a pro sheet and a con sheet. What are the consequences? And I’m an inner, I’m in! Lewis, where are we going?

Lewis Howes:                You’re going to learn something good!

Jesse Itzler:                   I’m in!

Lewis Howes:                Something good’s going to happen, there’s going to be a consequence, but it’s going to be a great experience.

Jesse Itzler:                   Right. So, it was about a month, I would say.

Lewis Howes:                A month and you were in, and you were there. And you already knew where you wanted to go? Or you started researching?

Jesse Itzler:                   Well, I knew that, in Living With A SEAL, I had a book…

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, New York bestseller.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, about living with a Navy SEAL that moved in with my family, so I knew I wanted to write a book about his journey, if it was suited for that. So, I called my publisher, and she happened to know of this monastery, that’s how I got to the monastery. And that started the journey.

Lewis Howes:                There you go. And it was close enough to, it was in the States, you didn’t have to go to Grand Tetons, or some other place, another country, or something, it was close to you, near Atlanta, on the east coast at least.

I went to India a year and a half ago as well, after I did this digital detox, I said, “I want to explore more,” so I went to India, and essentially lived with monks. But I had a nice bed, a nice place, it wasn’t like I was living on the ground, but it was training, 15 hours a day, on the mind and inner work, meditation.

And it was for two weeks. The first week was learning meditation, the second week I had to teach meditation to other people. And I had some incredible experiences, and I had some of the most profound peace I’d found, with that type of work. So, I know this works when you do it.

And I saw you in before and after photo’s, I think you sent it to me, or you posted it online, and I said, “Man, you look so clear and calm. What was the greatest lesson you learned about yourself through the process?

Jesse Itzler:                   I was very clear and calm, it took me a while to get to that place, because, when I first got there, literally the first minute I walked in, I took a quick tour and the main monk, like, my Grand Poobah, said, “Tomorrow we’re going to start, at 7:15am, with prayer, reflection, and meditation. And I was like, “Great! It’s 6:05pm. What do I do for the next 13 hours?”

And he looked at me in the eye and said, “You think.” And I was sitting there in a room the size of this desk, basically, and I said, “Okay, I’m going to try to meditate, I’m not a big meditator. My form of meditation has been running.”

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, like working out.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, that’s my alone time. So, I set my timer for 20 minutes and I’m like, “Let me try to focus on my mantra,” and I’m going through my routine, and I’m getting bombarded with thoughts. Like, the worst s**t is coming into my head.

Lewis Howes:                “Why am I here? What if…”

Jesse Itzler:                   “Why am I here? What if something happens to my wife? My kids…” And time is going by and I’m like, “Why hasn’t my timer beeped?” you know? I’ve been at this, so I thought, “Well, maybe I didn’t set it,” so I reset it and like, “No, I don’t want to cheat, and it’s going to happen any minute.”

So, I go back into my mantra, and back into my mantra, and after what felt like forever, I’m like, “I didn’t start the timer.” So I go back and reset my timer, and I look down and it’s at 3 minutes and 27 seconds, and I’m like, “Well, I am that distracted that I can’t even sit quietly for three minutes? I’m that overwhelmed and distracted!”

And I realised, “I’m here for fifteen days! I’m f***ed!” You know? I’m like, “What am I going to do?” And I couldn’t call my wife and be, like, “What are you doing right now?” And I had to work it out in my own head, and that was really hard.

And one of the other really big takeaways, for me, was, like…

Lewis Howes:                So, that was one day you were really distracted. That was the lesson you learned.

Jesse Itzler:                   Really distracted, I realised – you know, when I came home, everybody asked me what I missed the most, but nobody asked me what I didn’t miss – and I realised that a lot of things that I didn’t miss, filled up my calendar.

So, for instance, I went doing March Madness, and I’ve grown up watching March Madness, and filling out the brackets and watching all the games, and I didn’t miss that at all. I didn’t miss going and searching through Netflix at the thousands of films that I could maybe watch, and short circuiting, because it’s too much.

I didn’t miss a lot of stuff that I do every day. And I realised that I want to – we were just talking about this before the podcast started – I’m turning 50, the average American lives to be 78 years old. Here we go!

Lewis Howes:                You’ve done all the research, yeah!

Jesse Itzler:                   Here we go! If I’m average, I’ve got 20 years left, if I’m average. I hope I’m not.

Lewis Howes:                Okay, but you’re vegan, you work out, yeah.

Jesse Itzler:                   But if you reverse engineer that, if you reverse engineer the next thirty years, like I just climbed Mt Washington, there was no sixty or seventy-year-old guys on top of Mt Washington. The relevant years you have to do things that you want to do, it’s limited. So, my enemy’s the clock.

And I realised, man, I’ve just got to live with so much urgency and to put as much stuff of the things that I love to do, with the people that I love to do them with, on my plate. And I was, like, as soon as I got home, “I’m saying no to everything, unless it moves the buckets in my family life, wellness, finances or cause related.

I mean, of course I’m going to have some stuff on my plate, but the majority of my plate, I want to fill it with that stuff.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, 80, 90% must be that on your plate, is what you’re saying?

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, and I’ve been very lucky to live a lot of my life like that, but certainly the next thirty years, fifty to eighty, I mean, that’s spooky. I feel thirty-two, but there’s a reality on this side. I look at it every day when I pull my driver’s licence out to get on the plane or I look at my, “I’m f**ng turning 50, man!”

I start to reverse engineer how I want to live those days. And I talk about it in the book. I got this lesson early on in life, but I appreciated it, but I appreciate it a lot more.

When I first started out in the music business, I was writing theme songs for professional sports teams, but I had no money. I had, like, a hundred dollars in my bank account. And I needed money to create these demos, to present them, because everything was on spec. “Do you like it? Buy it!” It wasn’t like, “Hey, I want to write you this theme song. Will you give me ten grand so I can go into studio?”

Lewis Howes:                You’ve got to make it, deliver the product, yes.

Jesse Itzler:                   You’ve go to make it, and then, if they like it, they’ll buy it. But I had no money to make it. So I went to this music manager, and he said, “I’ll lend you the $10,000 you need to make these demos, but, for that, I want 10% of you, forever.”

Lewis Howes:                Forever?

Jesse Itzler:                   Forever, like, “I’m investing in you, I’m giving you the ten grand, I don’t know where this is going to go.” And I was like, “I’ll do it!” I’m twenty-one years old, 10% of me for $10,000, there was nothing without this money! But before I finalised the deal, I went and talked to my friend’s father, who is a big business mogul.

And I went to his apartment, he had this mac daddy apartment, I mean, mogul in the true sense of the word, ‘mogul’. He owned parking garages all over New York, owned a piece of the Yankees, a piece of the New Jersey Mets at the time – true mogul. And philanthropist.

I go to his apartment, I’m twenty-one years old. He has all this fancy artwork up, he has his own swimming pool, and I mean, it’s just mind-blowing, the wealth. And I start to tell him the story, and he stops me, and he says, “Jesse, I will trade every single thing I have, for the one thing that you have.”

And I’m like, “Me? I have $128…”

Lewis Howes:                Youth.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yes! Youth. Youth! And the process, the journey, of going through the unknown.

Lewis Howes:                The struggle, the uncertainty, everything.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yes. The wins, the losses, just the whole thing.

Lewis Howes:                Wow!

Jesse Itzler:                   He would give up everything to go back to that. And I’ve been really aware of that. Like, here I am, thirty years later, still talking about that. But more so, now, I don’t want to get to be 70 and 80 and have that thought in my head.

I want to live my life with that kind of urgency and fill up my plate, so I don’t have that regret. Because, when you’re in a routine, time goes really fast. And then you wake up and you’re seventy, and you’re like, “F**k, I can’t climb the mountain. I’m seventy.”

When you get out of your routine, like at the monastery, and you look at the thing and it’s 3 minutes and 27 seconds, time slows down. I want to stop the clock, man, I got four kids! So, my relationship with time, in general, was re-established at the monastery.

Lewis Howes:                Really?

Jesse Itzler:                   Definitely.

Lewis Howes:                By eliminating the things that on longer support or serve your vision for your life, and focussing on things that do.

Jesse Itzler:                   And not waiting.

Lewis Howes:                Not waiting for what?

Jesse Itzler:                   So, I climbed Mt Washington, I didn’t get to the summit, with five friends and I came back, and Mt Washington is a really dangerous mountain in the winter. I think it’s one of the ten most dangerous mountains because of the climate. It’s cold, like -30 and the winds get up to 50-75 miles an hour and low visibility, blah, blah.

Because of that, I didn’t get to the top of this journey I did with five of my close friends. I came back, and I’m talking to my wife about it, and because I posted it on Facebook, I was getting bombarded with, “You didn’t make it? You couldn’t, six miles to the top, you couldn’t get…?”

And I said to Sara, “I failed.” And I felt terrible, I let my friends down. And she said, “No, no, no, sweetie,” she said, “First of all, you numbskull, get a tour guide, get proper equipment and train for it and go back next year, next winter and knock it out!” And I was, like, “Next winter? I’m going back on Saturday!”

Lewis Howes:               Wow!

Jesse Itzler:                   That’s the urgency, because there’s not guarantee what next winter’s going to do. We can talk about all of our vision, but my thing would be like, “Well, do it now!” You have a five year plan? It takes too long, man, it takes too long!

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, it does. Yeah.

Jesse Itzler:                   So, that’s what I mean about my relationship with time. It’s like, yes, I eliminated a lot of the things that were no’s, but I also created a tremendous amount of urgency, I started to look at my enemy, my greatest enemy, other than keeping my health, is the clock.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah. If you could go back 15 or 20 years, my age or five years earlier, when you were thirty or thirty-five, what would you eliminate, and what would you add to your life?

Jesse Itzler:                   I would act like I’m not going to live till eighty. I would not put off the trip to Hawaii. I mean, you’re doing it, you’re going to live with monks, you’re going to Hawaii, you have businesses, you have good balance. You have a short commute to work. You’ve kind of cracked a lot of the things that many struggle with, sitting in traffic in their commute, bad relationships, struggling with health issues and finances.

You’ve been able to eliminate all that at a really early age, but I would just say, my suggestion would be to put, just to put it in an analogy, again, a good friend of mine has this rule, I call it the ‘Kevin Rule’. I asked him how he lived his life, because he’s one of the happiest guys that I know, and he’s a police officer.

He told me that every year he takes a trip with his college friends – he’s been doing it since he was twenty-one years old, one time a year. And then, every other month, one weekend, he goes away and puts something on his calendar that he circles. He’s going to run a marathon, he’s going to go to the beach, whatever. I call it the Kevin Rule.

And I said to myself, and this is what I would say to my thirty-five-year-old self, and I’ll show you why, if I can’t take a weekend every other month, to put something on the calendar for myself, if I can’t do that, my life is really out of balance. Because, if I do live to eighty, and I fit five of those on the calendar a year, that would be 150 of those memories that I’m creating, and moments that I’m creating.

If you do it at thirty-five years old, then you have over 200 memories that you’re creating. But if you don’t do it, think of the loss. No, seriously, I’m dead serious. Think of the loss. so, that’s how I look at it, man. I would  take advantage of the opportunity that you have at this age, and the people that you know, to create amazing… to build your life resumé.

That’s what we talked about all the time. It’s like, you have the work resumé, so what? That means nothing if you’re not building up your life resumé. and those moments are the things… There’s only two kinds of moments, man, the moments that happen, not to preach, but like, the Ojay Simpson, you remember where Ojay was during the chase, or 911, you know exactly where you were, you’ll never forget that, but you didn’t control that, it just happened.

There are moments like that where you have no control over it, you just remember, because they’re so vivid, and then you have the moments that you have control over, like the Kevin Rule, that you circle, that you create, that you put in position to happen.

And that’s kind of how you build this life resumé. And that’s what I hope my kids do, I hope they have a life filled with memories.

Lewis Howes:                And you told me this on the last time on the podcast, I believe you said that you take three hours for yourself every day. Is that still true? Even with four kids and wife and businesses and travel and everything, you still take roughly three hours a day for just things you want to do?

Jesse Itzler:                   Not roughly.

Lewis Howes:                Three hours.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah. I mean, at least.

Lewis Howes:                Is that in the morning, or is it just…?

Jesse Itzler:                   It’s accumulative.

Lewis Howes:                Right, got it.

Jesse Itzler:                   So it could be a 45 minute walk in the morning, 20 minute sauna, sit on the couch and do nothing, but…

Lewis Howes:                Hang out with friends, whatever.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah. But that’s my time and when I’m in that zone, I’m not guilty that I’m not with my wife or kids or at work or anything. But the flip side is, when I’m at work, because I’ve had that time, I’m not guilty because I’ve had that time with…

Lewis Howes:                You’re not thinking about what you want to do on the weekend or whatever, yeah.

Jesse Itzler:                   Exactly. And the reason is, if my wife, or my employer, or whoever, took away the things that I like to do during the day, I’d resent them. I mean, I’d be so mad at Sara if she said to me, “You can’t run. We got to go do this, or you got to do this.” I’ll do it, but allow me to do what I need to do for me.

It’s 10% of the day, I mean, I’m not talking about I’m taking 80% of the day for me. It’s just a small piece of the pie chart of the day, but it’s accumulative and I’m aware of it when I’m in that time.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, and I think it’s really beautiful, and that’s stuck on me, because if you don’t have a couple of hours a day for yourself, you don’t have a life, and it sounds like, if you’re not creating this life resumé and circling things on the calendar every couple of months for you to do that you’re excited about, then you don’t have a life either, if you’re just running through the motions.

Jesse Itzler:                   I think so, but I think that the more experiences you have, the more you can offer. The more experiences you have, the more you can offer. And I think, by building this life resumé, I think it can also help you land your dream job, you become more interesting. It can help you accelerate at the job you’re at, it’s a lightening rod. People want to talk about, “Oh, wait, I’m interested, I want to interview you about your trip to Hawaii.”

Now you told me you went and lived with, you did meditation and lived with monks for clarity. That’s interesting to me, I’m already wanting to take you out to dinner, I want to talk about that, I want to learn from that. And, I mean, just from you saying that to me in one second.

So, imagine if you’re sitting in the conference room at work, when everyone’s going through the motions and you say, “So, for my vacation, I didn’t go to the beach at the Hilton, I went and I journeyed across blah, blah, blah. I did this, and…”

“What?”

Lewis Howes:                Built schools with kids or did something else, yeah.

Jesse Itzler:                   Right, right. All the things that you’re doing. So, I’m not some wise old man, but if I was going to have to tell my thirty-five-year-old son, Lewis, which you’re not. It’s so funny.

Lewis Howes:                But you were doing that at thirty-five weren’t you? Weren’t you living this type of life?

Jesse Itzler:                   I was, I’m very lucky. My brother just said to me the other day,  was talking to him about my son. He was asking how my son, who is eight, was doing at swim season, and I said, “You know, he’s a good swimmer, but he just really doesn’t have that eye-of-the-tiger and that drive.”

And my brother said, “Well, listen…”

Lewis Howes:                Wait, how old is he?

Jesse Itzler:                   He’s eight, he’s eight. No, but he said, “Well, listen, as long as he’s happy, that’s all that matters.” And I thought about it and I said to him, “Peter,” my brother, I said, “Pete, my son could sit on the couch, eat ice-cream all day and play Minecraft, and be very, very happy. It’s not ‘as long as he’s happy’, I mean, I want him to be happy, it’s is he getting experiences and is he living to his potential?”

I want him to be happy, but that’s a bulls**t answer, man, because happiness could be, you know what I mean? It’s not in the same spirit of what we’re talking about.

Lewis Howes:                It’s interesting, I just interviewed James, the Iron Cowboy, and he talked about happiness, for him, is the ability to endure suffering. It’s like, the more that you can endure pain and suffering, in a safe container, right? The more you can take on life’s adversities and challenges and not let everything affect you 24/7, and you can have more happiness when you go through struggle, is what his ideal of that was.

And I thought it was an interesting perspective, when you force pain upon yourself. This is a guy who did 50 Iron Man triathlons in 50 days in 50 different states. And when you can force that, I believe the you can really overcome any challenge, and the day to day stresses don’t overwhelm you as much. I don’t know, what do you think about that?

Jesse Itzler:                   I think you learn a lot from pain. I think that we’re wired for comfort, and we seek comfort, we run away from pain.

Lewis Howes:                That’s why you had a Navy Seal live with you.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, I mean, I’ve gone through my share of pain. My pain has been self-induced too, it’s been physical. I ran a 100 miles, and it put me in a wheelchair, ran non-stop for four days, and it put me in a wheelchair. I can relate to what he’s saying, for sure, because I think there’s tremendous growth there, but it takes a really disciplined person to go to a place of consistent pain for growth.

And I’m not disagreeing with him, because I think that there’s validity in there, but, for me, I find that an equal amount, if not more growth, comes from simply stepping into the unknown. So, that could be an entrepreneur, taking the leap into a space that they’re not aware of. It could be, “I’m going to go run my first marathon, although I’ve never done that before,” it’s uncharted territory.

That’s still growth without pain, it’s the unknown, that I think really is where the real growth comes from.

Lewis Howes:                What’s the biggest personal challenge you’ve ever faced?

Jesse Itzler:                   Parenting, is just, I think it’s one of the hardest things.

Lewis Howes:                In what ways?

Jesse Itzler:                   I mean, it’s just so complicated, there’s no manual, there’s no one around to, well, you know, I have four kids with different personalities, different interests, different wants, different needs, different fears, different issues. I mean, no one’s perfect, I have my own issues, so just that difficult thing.

I love it, it’s the most rewarding, but it never stops. Challenges, most of them, have definitive dates, like, “Okay, I’m going to run a marathon on this date,” and then it’s over.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, a child is an ongoing challenge.

Jesse Itzler:                   When they come home and tell you they’ve been bullied, or they had a tough day, or they can’t pick this up and you’re looking at your kid and all you want to do is give them all the answers, but you can’t, because they’ve got to figure it out themselves.

It’s hard, and I wasn’t, my only training has been being a son. You know? And so I’ve been taught by two people who had their own vision, but now the world’s a much different place. That’s been really hard.

I’ve had partnerships that have been hard, in business, I’ve had setbacks, I’ve had plenty of egg on my face. I remember when my album came out in the early nineties, I was at an airport in Pittsburgh, about to do a show and I was walking through the airport and I saw a cover of a big rap magazine, and the headline of it is, “Are White Rappers Ruining Rap?” Or ‘Ruining Hiphop’, or something, and I was like, “Whoa!” and I looked down and it was a picture of me.

Lewis Howes:                No way! On the cover?

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah!

Lewis Howes:                Oh, man!

Jesse Itzler:                   And I was, like, “Oh my gosh, I want to go hide under a rock.” And then I read the article, and I was so pissed, I’m like, “The writer doesn’t even know me! I wrote this album when I was in my college dorm room, and it’s a reflection of that. I’m not competing, like, this is for me and my friends, if you don’t like it, what are you…?”

I was just, like, all these thoughts and I’m twenty-one, with no one to call. That’s a hard thing to move past, because you think everyone’s looking at you and thinking, “That’s the guy! He’s on of them!” You know?

So, I’ve had all kinds of things, but at the end of the day, I wouldn’t trade any of that. I just think it gives you a little bit of a thicker skin.

Lewis Howes:                And what did the monks teach you about overcoming personal challenges?

Jesse Itzler:                   I think, I don’t know if it was a direct lesson from them, but I think I became very aware of my own mortality.

Lewis Howes:                Through the experience, yeah.

Jesse Itzler:                   Through the experience. And I spoke to them a lot about death, because my parents are getting older, and I’m getting older, some of my friends now are having health complications and that’s just an inevitable thing with time, as you get older, stuff catches up to people, and you know you’re going to face that soon.

And I hope not, not you personally, I’m just saying, as you get older, and so I had a lot of questions around that, and they had a lot of good advice around it, but, for me, that helps me overcome a lot of my fears.

Because if I’m really, really having a gut check about something, like, “Man, I’m scared, I’ve got to go on Lewis’ show, and what if people are thumbs-downing me,” and I say to myself, like, I don’t know, man, my wife will probably hit me for saying this, but, in a hundred years, nobody watching this show is going to be here.

You walk down the street and look at everything going on, all the fears and challenges, nobody’s going to be here in a hundred years, man. There’ll be a whole new wave of Jesses and Lewises and strangers and whatever. So, who cares if I fall flat on my face? Who cares if the reviews aren’t good? That’s going to stop me? No one’s even going to know about it in a hundred years, that I had this fear or concern.

And that, very often, helps me, gives me that little nudge, it doesn’t always get me over the edge, but it gives me a little more of this, “You can do this. In the scheme of the universe, it’s okay.”

Lewis Howes:                Why was death one of the main things you talked about, or that was coming up for you?

Jesse Itzler:                   I just think, again, as a parent, and as a son, and seeing some of my friends now that are just starting to get diagnosed with stuff and having complications, I’ve never really dealt with grief on that level. Knock on wood, I’ve had a really lucky, blessed experience with that.

My parents are alive and I say this to Sara all the time, “Look at our existence today. Kids are healthy, you’re healthy, I’m healthy, parents are alive, it doesn’t get better than this! It just doesn’t get better than this!”

And I’m not talking about money or anything, I’m just talking about…

Lewis Howes:                People in your life.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah! It’s just, there’s’ an inevitable timeline, man, and when you reverse engineer your life – again, I’m fifty – if I reverse engineer my life, don’t say, what am doing next week, but where am I in ten years when I’m sixty? Okay, now my parents are ninety-eight, my grandma’s a hundred and five, Sara’s grandmother’s a hundred and five. The world’s a different world for us than it is right now.

So, I wanted to know, fast-forward, they’ve been through it, they’ve helped people. I’ve never been through it; help me deal with it now so I can prepare myself. I’m prepared for a lot of things, man. I try to keep myself as bullet-proof as I can, right, for certain things.

Eat healthy, you exercise, you have great relationships, you know, you become bullet-proof in your own world through these relationships that are long standing, et cetera. But I’m not prepared for that kind of stuff. I’ve never had to deal with it on a close, real level. So, why wouldn’t I go to the masters?

Lewis Howes:                What did they say?

Jesse Itzler:                   They said, “How you deal with it is a lesson for others. You have a responsibility of how you deal with that stuff. Where it’s a lesson and a blessing for others, the way you handle it.” And I was like, “Wow!” And that made sense to me.

And they look at death as a passage, it’s just a passage, so they almost celebrate life and celebrate the fact that this is just a passage into something probably better.

Lewis Howes:                Not as this massive loss, this grieving, “My life is ending, it’s going to take me years to overcome this loss.”

Jesse Itzler:                   Not at all, yeah. We’re a vessel, we’re here for a reason.

Lewis Howes:                And so it’s more of a celebration. I’m sure there’s some grieving, it happens, and a process of longing and missing, but then, they say it’s more to celebrate that process.

Jesse Itzler:                   Right, and there’s a dignity in it. You know, listen, it’s a really tough topic, because people that are grieving, everybody grieves differently. Everybody takes time, you know, has different grieving periods. I’m not an expert on it, like I said, I’m trying to learn, and if they can give me some guidance, and I talk to my friends that have been down that path, about it.

And it’s not something that you would normally talk to people about, death. I have several friends from high school that have lost their parents that raised me as a kid, through their houses, they’ve lost their parents, and we didn’t talk about it. But now I do, and they love it.

And I’ll share, like, “I remember I was with your mom and we went to a flea market and she was negotiating for these jeans and it was unbelievable,” and then it makes them feel good, and it keeps the spirit alive. So I think it’s important to have those kinds of conversations.

I don’t know, man, like I said, this fifty thing is hitting me! I don’t know, man!

Lewis Howes:                I’ll tell you, thirty-five started hitting me, though, too, because I always felt like this young, I was in my twenties, I always felt like this young guy in the industry, and then I hit thirty, and I was like, “Okay, I’m still relatively young,” but thirty-five is closer to forty, and it was the first time I realised, “Wow! I’m getting older!”

It hit me as, I’m getting older now, and I’m not the young twenty-three, twenty-four-year-old in this space any more, or in business any more, I’m getting up there. And it made me reflect on a lot of these things, and again, this urgency as well.

I mean, I’m not fifty, so I’m not in that different of a space with four kids, but I’m still, like, “I want to do things now, because tomorrow’s not guaranteed for me.”

Jesse Itzler:                   Right.

Lewis Howes:                Let alone fifty, tomorrow’s not guaranteed. And that’s what I try to reflect on as much as possible. I mean, hopefully I’ll be here for a long time, but tomorrow’s not guaranteed. And I don’t want to hold on to grudges or regret or frustration or resentment towards people or myself, I want to be free in my heart, and that’s the goal.

Jesse Itzler:                   And, listen, we live in a world of routine, because routine is comfort. You were talking about the Iron Cowboy getting uncomfortable and in pain, but pretty much all of us, myself included, we live in a world of routine, routines are comfortable. But routines can be a rut, and when you’re in a routine, the clock goes fast.

The clock goes fast. I was thirty-five yesterday, when you’re in a routine: Get up, get ready, get the kids ready, take them to car pool, go to work, come out, boom, day over, next day. And it’s like, if you don’t get out of the routine and take advantage of those five weekends a year, whatever, you wake up and you’re sixty and seventy, or fifty or forty or whatever, and you’re like, “Man, my knee’s messed up! I always wanted to do that, but now I can’t do that!”

You know? You just don’t know. It’s like, I said to Sara I want to run this race called Badwater. It’s 135, whatever…

Lewis Howes:                Is this the one, Running On The Sun? That documentary?

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, in Death Valley. And she said to me, “Don’t do it. Aren’t you concerned about when you’re seventy-five, your hips and your knees?” And I’m like, “You think I’m worried about seventy-five right now?” Like, seventy-five? Get me to seventy-five! I mean, I’ll be more angry at seventy-five if I didn’t do it, now, than if I wait four or five years to think about it. Like, “Now I’m fifty-five.”

Lewis Howes:                And you might have knee problems or something.

Jesse Itzler:                   Exactly! And that’s my point, it’s urgency, taking advantage of those opportunities while you can. Before they go away, because, like you said, you just don’t know.

Lewis Howes:                I want to change the subject a little bit, to relationships, because I’m always fascinated with the dynamics of married couples who are both extremely successful and have done incredible things, and how that dynamic works. And you and Sara have been together for how long now?

Jesse Itzler:                   Ten years.

Lewis Howes:                Ten years, four kids, how does that work where you guys continue to have the spark, the sexual desire, but also the dynamics of business and where both of you are at success wise, how does that work? Where you guys aren’t resenting each other, or trying to one-up each other, but there’s actual support on both ends. And has that been a challenge for you? Or has it always been a process.

Jesse Itzler:                   It’s always challenging, marriage is hard for anybody. It’s always a work in progress, especially when you bring in parenting, and I think there’s a couple of ways to answer this. I think, for starters, one thing that we didn’t do, we didn’t talk about how we wanted to parent our kids before we had kids.

Lewis Howes:                You didn’t talk about it?

Jesse Itzler:                   We did not. I mean, we just assumed that…

Lewis Howes:                You both are going to do it the right way.

Jesse Itzler:                   We had the same morals, we’re very aligned in pretty much everything, you know? We’re very different, but we have the same fundamental values, that our parenting would be the same. But it’s not. We have different styles. So that has to be…

When you in a marriage and if you take – I got to be careful here, because my wife is going to be watching this –  when you take divorce off the table, you take it off the table, and you just say, “It’s not an option,” instead of rationalising, “Listen, if this s**t doesn’t work out in five years, I’ll just get separated, it’s easy.

That’s what a lot of people , I think, do. It’s in the back of their head or they rationalise it or whatever. When you take it off the table and like, “We’ve got to figure this marriage stuff out. We have to figure out the schedule, we have to work together,” it’s a different kind of dynamic.

And I think, for us, it’s always been, we don’t take it so seriously if we get in an argument and it gets somewhat heated, we’ll slow dance. We’ll be like, “Let’s just slow dance, let’s move on.” Like, what am I going to do? I’m not going to hold on, I’m living with this, this is my wife! It’s my wife, man! We kind of just work it out and we move toward it.

We were lucky that we got married later in life. I got married at forty, Sara was thirty-seven. So we were both very independent and we’ve been able to maintain our independence. So, again , if Sara told me I couldn’t go to the monastery, and couldn’t do this, i would resent it, because those are the things I love to do.

So, she’s given me a leash to do the things that I want to do. I still have responsibilities toward the family and I’m very respectful of her journey. So, we have independent journeys, but then we have our journey together, and I don’t try to interfere with her journey, she doesn’t try to interfere with my journey, I’m a cheerleader for her journey, she’s a cheerleader for my journey, but then we come together.

And she’s just an amazing support system.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, she’s just the ultimate mom, and support.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, she just, she gives so much, that I feel like such a jerk if I’m not, you know what I mean?

Lewis Howes:                She’s making pancakes every morning!

Jesse Itzler:                   But you know what? I’ll tell you, Lewis, to be honest, it’s just little things that keep a marriage rolling, in my opinion. It’s just thinking of the other person. “You want some water, sweetie? I’m going to get some water,” as opposed to coming back with the water for yourself. You know what I mean?

Or, “Hey, I picked this up for you, I thought you would like it.” It’s little things that really go a big way. She’s always doing the little things, and I’m learning how to do the little things.

Lewis Howes:                Now, have you guys ever struggled with competing with one another, since you have both been extremely successful?

Jesse Itzler:                   Never, no, that’s never been a thing at all. When her star shines, I’m…

Lewis Howes:                Pointing the spotlight at her.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah. And I feel, she’s always cheering for me even if my star’s not shining, so yeah, no, not at all.

Lewis Howes:                That’s great!

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, but it is a work in progress, and I wish we had, I don’t think anyone’s figured it out or if they do, they’ll be a gazillionzillionaire, it’s just day to day, and it’s respect and its pretty cool, though, man.

Lewis Howes:                It’s great, amazing!

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, my parents have been married for sixty-something years, so I’ve had good teachers.

Lewis Howes:                And what’s the greatest lessons your kids have taught you?

Jesse Itzler:                   Oh, gosh, I’ve learned so much from them! I’ll tell you, the way Sara and I parent, or we try to parent, is to praise the effort, not the result.

Lewis Howes:                That’s big!

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, so we’re always constantly praising, like, “You work so hard for the swim meet!” Not, “You won!” or, “You lost!”

“You put so much effort into it, I’m so proud of how you practiced! What a great team mate!” versus, “Oh, my gosh, you won! Yes!”

It’s about the effort, so everything is a lesson, and it’s amazing, because kids, they started out, we have a two-year-old, two four-year-olds and an eight-year-old, and everything we do is a lesson for them, and they’re just such sponges. It just changes the way you have to act in front of them, so it’s interesting, it’s just really interesting to have them.

Lewis Howes:                You know, I hear that a lot of parents, a lot of them want to create a life that their kids don’t have to go through what they go through. For me, I didn’t have all of the money in the world, growing up. Hand-me-down type of family, hard-working, but we didn’t have this luxury.

But then, sometimes, you see that these kids that have it all, are a little soft. Do you ever have that fear that, “Okay, we’ve created this incredible environment for our kids,” safe, I’m sure their going to the best schools, they have stuff, do you ever feel like they might be a little soft here and there? Or is that a fear of yours?

Jesse Itzler:                   Yes. It’s a fear, so I address it, yeah. It’s a fear so I think, the number one thing is understanding that they are on their own journey. If I wanted to play basketball every day in my driveway as an eight-year-old, it’s very hard as a parent, when my son wants to play Minecraft. You know, like, “What are you doing? Let’s play…”

Lewis Howes:                Outside.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, like, “That’s what I did when I was a kid,” or, “Go ride your bike, this is what I did when I was a kid.” They’re on their own journey, so that’s kind of the first thing to get over, that’s been really hard for me to get over. But as far as the soft thing, I try to expose my kids, and so does Sara, our kids, to as many things that we do, that’s challenging and difficult, as possible, so that they can see what we go through.

I still choose to do tough races and push myself and go to a monastery and do the cold plunge challenge and all of that stuff. And I bring my kids to as much of that stuff as I can.

Lewis Howes:                That’s good!

Jesse Itzler:                   And I encourage them to participate in that kind of stuff, but it’s a different world, you know?

Lewis Howes:                The iPad world.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah.

Lewis Howes:                What would you say are the one to three things that you learned from this time with the monks that you started applying in your life, that you weren’t doing before?

Jesse Itzler:                   I realised that a lot of times, I’m not where my feet are, I’m not super present.

Lewis Howes:                Your mind’s somewhere else.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah, like my feet are here, but I’m not here. I’m at the soccer game, but I’m thinking about my to-do list.

Lewis Howes:                You’re on the phone, whatever, yeah.

Jesse Itzler:                   I’m on the phone, I’m making a call, who had to do… When I get to the soccer game, the soccer game’s over. I really remember when I was at the monastery, day one, they gave me some dishes to wash, and then they brought in about 500 dishes from this convention they had. And I said, “Man, how am I going to do all 500 dishes?”

And one of the monks said to me, “There’s not 500 dishes, there’s only the dish that’s in your hand.” And I was like, “Whoa! Karate Kid s**t, man! Whoa!” And I realised, that he’s right. I live in a world of multi-tasking, and I have to make significant shift to be a monotasker.

Like, they don’t have to-do lists, they have do lists. “I don’t care about my to-do list, this is what I’m doing now!” So I just made a really big fundamental effort shift, to be aware of, “Right now I’m with Lewis. Right now I’m not thinking about… This is what I’m doing right now, when it’s over I’m going to go on to the next thing.”

So, that’s kind of what it is. I have a lot of parameters around my phone. No dinner, no bed, no taking it to the movies with me, et cetera. And I say no a lot, because of my relationship with time that came from the book.

I realised that if it’s not moving the needle in my wellness, my family, my finances or something that’s important to me, I can’t really say yes to those things, because they’re distracting from those four key buckets. So, I became really good at saying, “No.” And I’ve been really bad at that, and that’s a zapper.

Lewis Howes:                Well, a lot of the yes’s in your life had also gotten you your life resumé, by saying yes to a lot of things, or by meeting a lot of people, sometimes. So, just being aware, what it sounds like, really being clear on what buckets it’s filling and saying yes to those things that support it, but not saying yes to everything.

Jesse Itzler:                   Correct. But you’re in a position where people, I’ve done this, I’ve zapped your energy, I’ve called you for advice many times. You’ve been great to me, by the way, man. I really appreciate you.

Lewis Howes:                Of course, I’m always available.

Jesse Itzler:                   And I said, “I’ve got this little thing and I’m going into this coaching class and how would you do it if you were me?” And you said, “Yes.” You gave me thirty minutes, on the call, and didn’t ask me for anything for it, and that’s thirty minutes of your time, away from all this, away from an idea, away from a book.

If you say yes to ten of those people, then you have five hours, that’s a work day that you just gave away. And I’ve done that a lot, you still do that a lot, and it’s great.

Lewis Howes:                If I had kids, maybe it would be different. But I’m building relationships with people that I’m inspired by, and that I believe in and that I want to support, at this phase of my life. So maybe that has something to do with it, too.

Jesse Itzler:                   I’m super grateful for it. And in my twenties and thirties, I built my career saying yes. Because I laughed at jokes that weren’t funny, I sat in the meetings, because, you know, you build the relationships and you want to be liked, and you want to be part of it.

But now, it’s a different chapter, so once you recognise, like, “No, I’m at a place where I can start saying no a little bit more, I wouldn’t have been insulted, because I’m grateful for what you did. But that’s where I am right now, because you can’t. That’s thirty minutes away from the time that I want to spend with my kids, man, and it’s just too important.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah. I know you’ve only got a few minutes left, I want to get you out of here on time. Is there anything else you that you do, besides a do list, as one of the main things? Was there anything else you learned that you apply now?

Jesse Itzler:                   I do, I went to a three-year-old journalling system that’s been very effective for me. I have two journals, in journal one I take everything that’s in my head, that comes during the day and I write it out of my head, to clear out space, and I dump it. It doesn’t mean it went away, it doesn’t mean the the task is done, it just means that I don’t have to spend any energy.

Which allows me to be creative, allows me to think clearly, and then I have a journal of this week. That’s a list, here’s my week, here’s what I have to accomplish this week, and it’s broken up into days. And then I’ll eliminate it.

So, for me, the point is I’ve been carrying a lot in my head, which can make you feel overwhelmed and really distracted, “What was it again? Oh, no, I forgot, I’ve got to get this kid a birthday present!” But if it’s here, I don’t have to worry about it. So that’s been really effective. Part B about it is that I’ve realised that if a tornado whipped it away, I’d still be okay, like, it doesn’t really matter, you know?

Like, life goes on. And I put so much emphasis into these lists, but that’s been a really helpful system for me. And it sounds so easy and obvious.

Lewis Howes:                It’s the fundamentals.

Jesse Itzler:                   It’s the fundamentals, man!

Lewis Howes:                It’s like basketball, the things we learn is how to dribble, how to chest pass, how to one-handed pass, it’s all the simple things, that we already know how to do, we’re just coming back to them, it sounds like.

Jesse Itzler:                   Yeah. How can I thank you for my thirty minutes? You gave me a quote on my book, you’re on the cover of my book!

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, you can answer two final questions.

Jesse Itzler:                   Okay! Deal!

Lewis Howes:                One of them’s called, ‘The Three Truths’, and I think you might have answered it last time, but since you have a new perspective, and since we’re talking about death, not to go there, but imagine you get to choose the day you get to die. As many years away from now as you want. It could be 300 years old, let’s just say you picked a day.

And you’ve achieved everything you imagined, on your bucket list, with your wife, with your family, everything you wanted to do, you did it. There’s no regrets, lived the greatest life you could ever dream of.

But, for whatever reason everything you’ve created you’ve got to take with you; your books, your videos, your message to the world that you’ve been sharing, it’s all got to come with you. And everyone’s there, it’s a celebration, like the monks said, everyone’s happy, and they give you a piece of paper and they say they’d like you to write down the three things you know to be true, about everything you’ve learned in your life.

And this is the only thing that we would have access to, of your information. These three lessons or three truths. What would you write down as your Three Truths?

Jesse Itzler:                   All things come to an end. Nothing like love, there’s nothing more important than love. And, I hope I write, “And I have no regrets.”

Lewis Howes:                So, have no regrets.

Jesse Itzler:                   Have no regrets.

Lewis Howes:                Well, I want to acknowledge you before I get to the final question, I want to acknowledge you, Jesse, for your constant example of the message you share in the world. You’re living the example of doing the things you want to do, getting uncomfortable, having time for yourself; all the things you challenge people to do, you’re doing yourself.

And most people don’t do the things they say you should do. And you’re being the example, you’re being a loving husband, a loving father, you’re showing up, you’re present, and you’re just an incredible human being, so I want to acknowledge you for everything.

Jesse Itzler:                   Thank you.

Lewis Howes:                For the book, Living With The Monks, make sure you guys get a copy right now, share this with your friends, @jesseitzler on Instagram?

Jesse Itzler:                   @jesseitzler on Instagram, yeah.

Lewis Howes:                And Twitter and Facebook?

Jesse Itzler:                   I’m @the100MileMan on Twitter, but yeah jesseitzler.com.

Lewis Howes:                Yeah, jesseitzler.com. Final question is, what’s your definition of greatness?

Jesse Itzler:                   Oh, man, over indexing, going beyond what you thought you could do. I think a lot of us don’t really realise what we’re capable of, and under index a lot of buckets of our life, and I think greatness is going, you know, is really hitting your potential and even going beyond your potential. It’s different for everybody, right? Everybody’s potential is different.

What’s yours?

Lewis Howes:                Discovering the unique gifts and talents to pursue your dreams, and in that pursuit, make the maximum impact on the world around you.

Jesse Itzler:                   F**k! Why didn’t you go first?

Lewis Howes:                I’ve been doing this for years, so I’ve got mine down, but yeah! Yours is great, though. We said the same thing!

Jesse Itzler:                   You said it better.

Lewis Howes:                We said the same thing!

Jesse Itzler:                   Alright.

Lewis Howes:                Jesse, appreciate you, man, thanks brother!

Jesse Itzler:                   Thank you, man, appreciate it!

Lewis Howes:                Appreciate it!

There you have it, my friends! I hope you enjoyed this one as much as I did. I love connecting with Jesse, I love learning from him, he’s got so much information over years of experience in his upbringing in music, and sports and business and relationships, and now father of multiple kids. I mean, he’s just doing it all, and he’s doing it at a great high level.

His ability to continue to stay sharp mentally, focusing on his health. He’s doing the work every single day. The work doesn’t end, growing never stops, and Jesse is a prime example that it never stops, and life is an ongoing process.

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Build Your Life Resume, Jesse Itzler Course Review

April 9, 2019 by Shiv Aiyar

Jesse Itzler developed Build Your Life Resume to help people stuck in the 9 to 5 grind to find more meaning with their lives.

Basically, the program builds a “life resume” which is kind of like a normal resume except it’s filled out with meaning accomplishments that are actually important to the one accomplishing them.

These accomplishments are suppose to be things that will help said person find success in their personal lives, business and other professional settings.

Jesse wants every person out there to break free from the chains of society. The majority of people are guilty of falling into society’s trap.

Wake up. Go to work. Get home at night. Eat. Go to bed. Rinse and repeat.

For 50 damn years.

This is society’s norm and Jesse doesn’t want that to happen to everyone. He wants to make sure you live a fulfilling life, doing something that truly makes you happy.

And once you find that thing that truly makes you happy then you can start to monetize it.

When you stop focusing so heavily on your professional life and instead focus on your purpose, only then will you be truly happy.

Jesse has a pretty exciting story himself about the resume he’s working on building in his own life.

Who’s Jesse Itzler?

Believe it or not, Jesse was an ex rapper and he’s now a very successful entrepreneur.

In the past he was a speaker on Ted Talk, he’s spoken internationally as well, he’s an adventurer and a very respected business person.

His wife, Sara Blakely, is actually the founder of her own company Spanx. They have four kids together.

Jesse has also become a vegan.

On top of those accomplishments he’s also a best selling author. He wrote “Living with a Seal” which is a book about how he had a former navy seal stay in his home to personally train him.

It’s a true story by the way.

Everything that he does is done for increasing his bank account, building his resume or adding some skills that will help him grow as a father, husband or business person.

And on top of all that he has founded a handful of multi-million dollar companies.

He was the co-founder of Marquis Jets before him and his business partner eventually sold it to Berkshire Hathaway. It’s now know as Berkshire Hathaway/NetJets.

He also co-founded Zico Coconut. A water product that he and his partner eventually sold to Coca-Cola.

Ya think this guy knows how to build a profitable business yet?

I mean come on.

Build Your Life Resume Course Summy

Build Your Life Resume is an eight week long course that Jesse designed to help others hit goals and live their life to the fullest. These goals include personal, relationship and business.

So what should you expect to get out of this thing?

• applicable advice and problem-solving from Jesse
• all tools needed to break free of the chains/mindsets that have kept you from hitting goals
• work closely with Jesse and people he learned from
• eight weeks full of insights, tips and formulas/plans

In the first week of the program, Jesse helps students build their life resume. Basically you’ll be creating an outline of what you can expect over the next eight weeks and helps you to get the most out of his training.

Week 2 is all about developing the “won’t stop mentality.” Jesse credits this mentality for all of his achievements to this point in his life.

For the next few weeks Jesse focuses on helping students to grow their influence and business. On top of that you continue to build the winning mindset as well as tuning your mind and body to stay energized.

In week 6,7 and 8 the students begin to use practical solutions to start breaking the norm in their lives. The idea is for them to get a good look at how far they’ve come since day 1 and understand what the next steps are to continue to get the most out of what they’ve learned.

Jesse is very hands on with the coaching program. He makes himself available to students whether it be in the exclusive FB group, IG or YouTube.

The students can stay in touch and motivate each other through mailing address.

I think Jesse offers something really cool here and I just really like the guy. Seems like a really cool dude.

But now it’s up to you, are you ready to build the life resume that will leave you feeling fulfilled?

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IMO Build Your Life Resume is a great course, it motivates to crush life goals and reach the potential that we have as human beings.

But in order to accomplish it you need time. It takes time.

We don’t have much time, we need to work.

How do we work less so we have more time for ourselves?

Residual/passive income.

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I’ll go to my grave saying that this is the best online business opportunity in 2019. It allowed me to crush six figures in very short order.

I was able to leave my 9 to 5 in just a few short months.

Below you can check out one of the sites I built back around the same time I left my job. It’s a pool site that’s been bringing in $650/mo for me on auto-pilot.

Listen, this business has completely changed my life. My friends and family don’t even look at me the same anymore.

I went from struggling to make $30k/year at my job, to a six figure salary in just over 6 months. And it’s passive.

I quit my 9 to 5. I’m my own boss. I make my schedule.

I take vacations when I want, where I want.

I can talk all day about what this business has done for me but let’s talk about what it can do for you. The cool thing is that we teach others to do the exact same thing.

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I literally have never accomplished…

I literally have never accomplished more in a year, BYLR, Jesse and this community are so motivating and inspiring! It is like a force that motivates you to just keep doing amazing things and adding new experiences to your life. If you want to seriously level up your daily life, you have to join the BYLR Calendar Club. Absolutely Obsessed with this CLUB!

Date of experience : 28 April 2022

Seriously THE BEST!!

Seriously THE BEST calendar/planner I have every owned! Jesse and team over deliver on EVERY aspect of their programs - and the Big A$$ Calendar itself is a huge asset for our family to plan and execute at EPIC year!!! There is nothing else like this on the market if you’re looking to knock big trips and big dreams off your bucket list!! We appreciate you, Jesse and Team!! THANK YOU for giving us a community and physical planning tool to make our dreams come true!!

Date of experience : 20 April 2022

BEST CLUB & MENTORSHIP EVER

I don’t know of any better place to be a member and get well beyond what was promised. Jesse Itzler not only COMPLETELY OVERDELIVERS consistently but he also is an INCREDIBLE mentor who LEADS BY EXAMPLE. Not only just as an entrepreneur but as a husband, dad, son, friend, and most of all as showing self care and self respect. Jesse Itzler and his Calendar Club are REMARKABLE! If you are not in the club, you are MISSING OUT BIG TIME!

Making Life Simple

What value you think you are going to get is not what you actually are going to get. I came to BYLR for a community to push me so I could be more committed to changing my energy level through fitness. Four month's in and I am learning so much about parenting, health, discipline, and overall fulfillment in life. Jessie is a rockstar!!

Date of experience : 21 April 2022

Jesse is an inspirational leader

Jesse is an inspirational leader. The way I was living my life was very close to the BYLR core values. I am always trying to do more, experience life, and live outside my comfort zone. I've always tried to pick one thing that I was working towards every year and put my all into. BLYR has given me a community that thinks just like me. I love it!!

I was very disappointed in the product…

I was very disappointed in the product quality. The paper bent very easily in the non-pre-folded places. And it’s so heavy that it doesn’t hang on the wall with regular wall adhesives. I’ve reached out to the company and haven’t received feedback or help.

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We are sorry to hear about your less than stellar experience with the BYLR® Calendar. Please contact customer service at [email protected] so we can help make this right - thank you.

This calendar has helped me in unexpected ways.

This calendar has helped me in unexpected ways. Not only has it gotten me organized for training for my running races and getting family trips booked but it has also helped me with parenting. My daughter had a big sports event that fell on the same weekend as a running race. With the colour coding I could see all my events vs hers. Laid out like that it made it very obvious that I could miss that event and still have a really full year. But if I missed going to her's I might not get a chance to see her compete very much in the season. I'm sure I would have chosen to support her either way but the calendar gave me a great and positive perspective on how easy it was to do it all and maintain healthy balance.

Such a great community

Such a great community! The coaching, accountability, and new experiences are second to none. Highly recommend if you're looking to get more our of life than just living each day on repeat.

Positive Experience from NYC

I've been having such a positive experience since I joined The Calendar Club! Being part of the BYLR Community has opened my eyes to see new possibilities and opportunities ! On a personal level I've started to see tremendous growth within myself, taking more risks and branching out to develop new relationships! FIVE STAR all the way⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️‼️

Big A## Calendar

My step sister bought me the Big A## Calendar for my birthday gift this year and when I first opened it, I thought yea, it's a really big calendar, but after I filled it out, and then started watching the weekly motivations and the kick-off call with Jesse, I understood that it is a way of life and wow! My life has already transformed in the last few months since incorporating the calendar and methodology into my daily routine, I'm telling you, if you are looking for a change or a way to level up your life experiences, this is the way!

Date of experience : 27 April 2022

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In today’s ultra-competitive job market, crafting the perfect resume is akin to unicycling—very hard. Your resume is your first (and sometimes only) shot at making a good impression, so it’s crucial to get it right. Without further ado, let’s dive into the six resume mistakes to avoid:

Excessive Length

A common faux pas is turning your resume into a memoir. Hiring managers have about as much time to read your resume as you do to decide if you want to swipe right on a dude on a dating app who lists his job as “Consultant at Consulting.” Stick to one page if you’re early in your career, and only venture into a second if your experience justifies it.

Not tailoring it to the job

Tailoring your resume for each job application might sound as fun as a root canal, but it’s just as necessary (or even more so, because in America, you need a job in order to get the dental insurance to get the root canal). Customize your resume to match the job description, highlighting the experience and skills that make you the perfect fit. It shows you’re not just looking for any job—you’re looking for this job.

Too Many Keywords

Stuffing your resume with keywords until it reads like a spam email won’t endear you to human readers. Use keywords wisely, ensuring your resume is still coherent and engaging to the real-life humans who will (hopefully) read it after the AI does. And definitely don’t have a large chunk of white text at the bottom. Even if employers can’t read it, it’s just so...2004.

My first resume said I was attentive to detials, so listen, I get it. But please triple-check for typos. It’s the equivalent of having spinach in your teeth during a first date; it’s all anyone’s going to remember. Use spell check, read your resume backwards, have a friend review it, etc. You know what to do.

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Too Much History

There’s no need to detail every job you’ve ever had since your high school paper route (unless you were really fast at delivering those papers). Focus on recent and relevant experience. Think of your resume as a highlight reel, not a documentary.

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I tested 5 AI resume builders to help get a job — here's what happened

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I long for the day when I’ll wake up in the morning and get my AI ready to go to work for me . Until that time comes, the least AI could do for me today is to help me land a job I like.

Not everyone is a fan of resume and cover letters, but they remain staples in many recruitment processes.

For years, employers have also been using forms of AI to filter through these documents in order to narrow down the pool of applications they receive for any given vacancy. 

The latest advances in generative AI mean that right now employees can leverage AI tools at their disposal to empower themselves in the job-hunting process.

I wanted to see how powerful these tools are. To find out, I created a shortlist of AI resume and cover letter builders that I wanted to try. Tom’s Guide believes in fair fights, so I used each of them as though I was applying for the same job with the same profile.

A target was required and I found a LinkedIn ad for a real job as a remote Software Engineer with generative AI responsibilities at Meta (formerly Facebook) that looked promising.

The role asked for a candidate with over two years of coding experience and over two years of building large-scale applications. More experience was required in designing and completing medium to large features without guidance. Meta was looking for a candidate with, or in the process of obtaining, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience. In exchange, the company was offering a salary between $116k and $168k per year.

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I created a fictitious aspiring Meta software engineer, Tamsin Smith, in order to have some kind of profile I could submit to the AI. Smith holds two Stanford University degrees in computing science, completed an internship with Twitter and has been working at Google as a software engineer since 2019. 

If that’s not enough for Mark Zuckerberg to give her an offer, she also leads a local scouting group in her free time.

With an actual job ad and an alter ego in hand, I was ready to start reviewing AI tools. Read on to find out which tools I used, what they produced and my thoughts on their performance.

My first attempt was with Rezi.ai since it offers a free basic service and I wanted to check if the way I designed the review could work in principle. And it did!

Right after confirming my email, I was creating Tamsin Smith’s first resume.

I was presented with a choice between a “Job-Tailored Resume” and a “General Purpose Resume”; I went with the first choice as it was exactly what this test was about. It asked me for the role and company I’m targeting but I was blindsided when Rezi asked me to insert a job application I’d written for the role. Isn’t this something the AI should be doing for me?

I finished this side quest and then added basic details like my name and email, followed by my previous work experience. Here’s when I first encountered signs of AI life in the form of a bullet point generator to further explain my role. 

Rezi went on to ask me to add details on projects I’d worked on, my education history, certifications, coursework, involvement in other organizations, and my skills.

The next exciting step was the summary section, where I gladly let the AI take control. It was nothing I couldn’t have come up with myself if I simply wanted to summarize my resume, but it at least merits a pass mark. (I wanted to ask the AI to write a cover letter for me based on the finished resume but that feature requires a subscription.)

Overall Rezi marked the resume it produced at 87 out of 100, which I think is a bit too generous. If you have a rough idea of what you want your resume to look like, by all means, use Rezi so you don’t have to worry about the formatting. It might also provide a helpful AI-generated bullet point or two along the way.

If you were worried that not using Rezi’s AI was the one thing stopping you from getting your dream job, rest assured that (at least with its free version) this is not the case.

My score: 3/5

Resumaker.ai

“Designed templates that will get you hired at the world's leading companies,” Resumaker proudly displayed on its homepage. I also had to pay ($0.99) to download my resume and cover letter. Surely, I was on the verge of getting Tamsin hired?

By now I’d gotten the hang of inserting details like my education and work history. In this regard, little separates the resume builders tested here.

The AI kicked in to provide me with text I could insert as accomplishments in my jobs and as the headline summary. The latter left much to be desired but at least it was presentable. Resumaker didn’t offer to beef up my volunteering section so I had to write that part manually. As a whole, the resume felt a bit dry but at least it was presentable.

However, it’s a good thing this service isn’t called Coverlettermaker. Every sentence it generated started with either an “I am” or “I have”. When you’re working with such a structure, there’s only so much you can do to make the rest more exciting. Furthermore, it left the [Company Name] field for me to fill in. AI that’s supposed to help me land a job in a highly competitive market should come with higher standards. 

Resumaker.ai claims that thousands of applications it created landed people jobs. If there’s any truth to that, then on the bright side we really shouldn’t be overthinking what we’re sending to hiring managers.

The main question I asked myself before deciding whether each AI builder deserved a pass mark was: Can I send out the résumé as is? 

Teal didn’t quite make the cut here.

It asked me to connect the specific job I was applying for from LinkedIn to the resume and it started analyzing the job ad for keywords I should include. Fantastic! I was ready for a made-to-measure summary, past accomplishments, and cover letter — the areas where I wanted the AI to work its magic.

Unfortunately, this is where I felt let down. In the headline summary, Teal ended up giving me a compilation of the achievements it had previously generated but also prominently added that I had expertise in “work authorization”. The AI thought the right to work in the U.S. requirement from Meta’s job description was a hard skill. 

It scored its own resume at 79%.

As far as its cover letter goes, I appreciated that I could generate it for free without having to spend time adding more details than I already had. However, the result was something I could have just as easily written myself.

My score: 2/5

Kickresume.com

The last AI resume maker I wanted to test was Kickresume, which had the highest monthly fee out of the lot at $19 per month. You can bring that down by paying an annual lump sum that brings the pricing down to $9 a month or, as I did, utilize the free trial version. 

Right when I was losing hope in the resume generators, Kickresume lifted my spirits.

Its helpful AI writer was alongside me from start to finish, offering handy suggestions for work accomplishments, explaining my certifications, and also suggesting skills I should list specifically for a software engineering position. I ended up with a clean-looking CV and I didn’t even have to break a sweat.

Kickresume gave the resume it generated a score of 88/100.

If I’m in a pinch and need a new resume that I don’t have to scan for AI-generated sentences that would land me in the "rejected" pile, Kickresume.com is the first website I’ll be visiting.

I wanted to add a nice cherry to the cake, so I asked Kickresume to create a cover letter using the great resume it made. But this is where I was underwhelmed. 

While devoid of grammatical errors, I felt as though the AI didn’t take the résumé and job description I gave into consideration. It provided me with a few short lines that didn’t even name-drop Tamsin’s fictitious stints at Twitter and Google. You wouldn’t even know she completed two degrees at Stanford. Based on my positive experience with the résumé, I couldn’t believe this was the same AI content generator.

My score: 4/5

No subscriptions. No plugins. I wanted to see how well the free version of OpenAI ’s ChatGPT would do against the four dedicated AI resume and cover letter generators listed above.

I tweaked a prompt that I found online and, in 161 words, I asked the AI for a first draft of my new resume. I then asked the chatbot to refine its work based on the job description I gave it to make my resume less generic. In seconds, I had my second draft.

Since ChatGPT only gave me a plain text version of my resume, I then pasted what it gave me into a template from one of the previous builders.

I’m happy to announce that both myself and Tamsin were very pleased with the results. The resume easily rivals the ones generated from the other services I tested. I wouldn’t have minded some text to beef up the education section to explain what I had learned at Stanford. Also, the line pointing out that Meta was previously called Facebook is something I would never have included in a resume intended for Meta’s eyes. Other than that, ChatGPT gave me decent results in the shortest amount of time.

I was especially impressed with the cover letter I asked ChatGPT to craft for me. It was perhaps a bit too long for some tastes but it was arguably the most well-rounded out of the five.

Honorary score: 4/5

The verdict

There have already been reports of people using AI to write resumes and cover letters who ended up getting hired for the positions they’ve applied for, and I’m not surprised. But as this test has shown, a website’s claim that it uses AI to provide a service is not some kind of guarantee of the level of service you can expect. 

Shop around when looking for AI resume and cover letter writers. Perhaps combine two or more of them to leverage each one’s specific strengths. But add the finishing touches yourself.

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Christoph Schwaiger is a journalist who mainly covers technology, science, and current affairs. His stories have appeared in Tom's Guide, New Scientist, Live Science, and other established publications. Always up for joining a good discussion, Christoph enjoys speaking at events or to other journalists and has appeared on LBC and Times Radio among other outlets. He believes in giving back to the community and has served on different consultative councils. He was also a National President for Junior Chamber International (JCI), a global organization founded in the USA. You can follow him on Twitter @cschwaigermt.

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10 Best Resume Builders to Create A Great Resume – 2024 Guide

A re you exhausted from investing endless hours into creating an impeccable CV? This article introduces the top resume builders that will revolutionize your job application approach. Bid farewell to monotonous formatting and greet a remarkable resume that distinguishes itself from the rivalry. Prepare yourself to secure your dream job with self-assurance effortlessly!

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10 Best Resume Writing Services

• Super Star Resume - Best overall
• ZipJob - Best for guarantees
• Resumeble - Best with custom bundles
• Let’s Eat, Grandma - Best for range of career service
• ResumeSpice - Best for job seekers of any level
• TopResume - Best customer service
• Resume Writing Services - Best for affordability
• Craft Resumes - Best for quick turnaround
• Resume Companion - Best value resume writing service
• Resume.com - Best free service

When creating this compilation, we considered different elements such as affordability, ease of use, accessibility, the privacy policies of the companies involved, and more. The highest-rated services offer advice, templates, and tools and allow you to consult with experts who can help you craft an impressive resume highlighting your strengths to potential employers.

Our collection comprises free services and those that make use of professional writers’ skills. Some options require a subscription or one-time payment.

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Super Star Resume - Best Resume Builder Overall

Star Rating: 4.9/5

Super Star Resume is an innovative resume builder that completely transforms creating professional resumes. By offering a user-friendly interface and a range of powerful features, Super Star Resume enables individuals to produce exceptional resumes that effectively showcase their abilities, accomplishments, and work history.

• Skilled and seasoned writers
• Customized strategy aligned with unique career objectives
• Timely delivery of resumes
• More significant expense compared to certain other resume writing services
• Restricted selection of additional services
• Availability may be restricted depending on demand and geographic location
• Intuitive resume builder: An intuitive interface that simplifies the resume creation process, offering modern templates for a professional look.
• Customization choices: Users can personalize their resumes by selecting from various font styles, colors, layouts, and sections to align with their unique style.
• Comprehensive content suggestions: Access to a collection of expertly curated bullet points, action verbs, and industry-specific phrases to craft impactful resume content.
• Real-time previews and editing: Real-time previewing and editing capabilities ensure a visually appealing and error-free final resume.
• Integration with professional networking platforms: Integration with LinkedIn allows users to maintain consistency between their online presence and resume.
• Tailored resumes for different job applications: The duplication feature facilitates the creation of multiple resume versions, each customized for specific job applications or industries.
• Resume analytics and tracking: Users can monitor the views and downloads of their resumes, gaining valuable insights to optimize their job search strategies.
• Professional Resume : $169
• Resume With Cover Letter : $199
• All-Included : $199

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ZipJob - Best Resume Builder for Guarantees

Star Rating: 4.7/5

ZipJob is widely regarded as an excellent option for resume creation, especially for those who value guarantees. Their impressive 60-day assurance ensures that individuals searching for employment will experience a surge in interview invitations within this period.

If this desired outcome cannot materialize, ZipJob proactively offers a complimentary review and revision of your resume. This guarantee highlights their commitment to client contentment and showcases their unwavering belief in the superior quality of their resume writing services.

• The starting package is cost-effective
• Complimentary ATS check included
• 60-day interview assurance with higher-tier packages
• The design and layout made it challenging to read the resume
• The summary section was overly lengthy and filled with clichés
• The formatting of the education and training sections was subpar
• Expert resume writers: ZipJob provides access to a team of expert resume writers with the skills and knowledge to review, evaluate, and optimize your resume for compatibility with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and hiring managers.
• ATS optimization: Meaning they ensure your resume is structured and formatted to navigate and succeed in ATS filters effectively. Employers commonly use these filters to assess and rank resumes during the initial screening process.
• Keyword optimization: The resume builder online offered by ZipJob assists you in identifying and integrating pertinent keywords and industry-specific terminology. This practice heightens the visibility of your resume, making it more likely to capture the attention of hiring managers.
• Job-specific content suggestions: ZipJob provides valuable advice regarding the most relevant and influential content to include in your resume for different job titles and industries. This guidance is invaluable in customizing your resume for specific roles.
• Cover letter writing assistance: ZipJob supports the creation of impactful cover letters that complement your resume, strengthening your overall job application.
• Unlimited revisions: One noteworthy feature of ZipJob is the option for unlimited revisions and updates to your resume. This ensures that your resume not only meets but continues to meet your specific requirements and mirrors your professional growth.
• Collaboration with resume writers: the platform facilitates direct collaboration with the resume writers, enabling you to share additional information, discuss specific requirements, and seek clarifications at any stage of the resume creation process.
• Launch Package: $139 (or $48/mo)
• Fast Track Package: $189 (or $65/mo)
• Premium Package: $299 (or $27/mo)

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Resumeble - Best Resume Builder With Custom Bundles

Star Rating: 4.3/5

Resumeble is a highly efficient and user-friendly resume builder that empowers individuals to create professional and compelling resumes. With Resumeble, crafting a standout resume becomes a streamlined process thanks to its intuitive interface and extensive range of customizable templates.

Whether you’re a recent graduate, a seasoned professional, or someone looking to change careers, Resumeble caters to all needs and skill sets. It offers helpful suggestions and expert advice to ensure your resume showcases your unique qualifications and achievements in the best possible light.

• A 60-day interview guarantee is included
• Budget-friendly package deals are available
• It’s more established than some other websites
• Keyword optimization: This feature helps optimize your resume by suggesting relevant keywords aligned with your target industry or job, enhancing your visibility to Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and recruiters.
• Content import: Resumeble allows you to import your existing resume or LinkedIn profile, saving you the time and effort of manual data entry.
• Real-time editing: You have the convenience of editing and modifying your resume in real time, providing the flexibility to experiment with various formats, sections, and content.
• ATS compatibility: Resumeble ensures your resume is ATS-compatible, essential for better visibility and a higher chance of being shortlisted by employers using Applicant Tracking Systems.
• Download options: The platform offers various download formats, including PDF, Word, and plain text, ensuring compatibility with diverse application processes.
• Cover letter builder: Resumeble features an integrated cover letter builder, streamlining the creation of professional and personalized cover letters that complement your resume.
• Career Pro Package : $159.00
• Professional Package : $299.00
• Premium Package : $399.00

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Let’s Eat, Grandma - Best Resume Builder for Range of Career Service

Star Rating: 4/5

Let’s Eat, Grandma is an inventive and progressive tool for creating impressive resumes. The platform streamlines the resume-building process, making it easier for job seekers to craft exceptional resumes. With Let’s Eat, Grandma, individuals can create unique resumes that catch the eye of employers and set them apart from the competition.

This user-friendly platform offers a range of customizable templates that allow users to tailor their resumes to showcase their specific skills and experiences. Let’s Eat, Grandma also provides expert advice and recommendations to help ensure that your qualifications and achievements are effectively highlighted in your resume.

• Complimentary resume evaluation
• Choices available for individuals from entry-level to executive-level positions
• Extensive collaboration opportunities
• Not specialized in academic CVs or federal resumes
• Relatively higher pricing compared to some other services
• Potential for a longer turnaround time compared to competing services
• Expert choice: You can save your resume in multiple formats (PDF, Word, plain text) or easily share it with potential employers via email or a link, simplifying the distribution of your resume.
• Error highlighting: The builder can identify potential errors, inconsistencies, or missing information within your resume and provide suggestions or alerts for improvement.
• Section prompts: Pre-written prompts for various resume sections (e.g., work experience, education, skills) can help you structure your resume effectively and ensure you include essential details in each area.
• Customizable sections: You can add, remove, or rearrange sections to tailor your resume to emphasize your strengths and relevant experiences.
• Keyword optimization: The resume builder can recommend industry-specific keywords based on the job description, enhancing your resume’s chances of passing through Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and grabbing the attention of hiring managers.
• Starter Package : Priced at $439, but there is an anti-inflation sale price of $389.
• Accelerated Package : $549.
• The premium Package : $689, but the anti-inflation sale price is $614.
• Executive Concierge Service : $1,899 or as low as $119/month.

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ResumeSpice - Best Resume Builder for Job Seekers of Any Level

Star Rating: 3.8/5

ResumeSpice , a renowned online resume builder, streamlines crafting professional resumes. This platform provides job seekers with a user-friendly interface and a wide selection of templates, enabling them to create impressive resumes that align with their career objectives.

With ResumeSpice’s seamless experience, users are guided through each resume section effortlessly while receiving valuable tips throughout the process. From personal details and work history to skills and accomplishments, this platform ensures that all crucial aspects of a resume are comprehensively addressed.

• Additional assistance
• Timely service
• ATS optimization
• Guaranteed interviews
• Restricted revisions
• Insufficient customization options
• Restricted refund policy
• User-friendly interface: ResumeSpice boasts an intuitive and user-friendly platform, simplifying the resume creation process and offering a seamless experience to users.
• Extensive template library: The platform offers a vast selection of professionally designed templates tailored to various industries and job positions. Users can explore different styles and layouts to find the perfect match for their needs.
• Import and export options: ResumeSpice enables users to import their existing resumes in formats like PDF or Word for easy editing and updates. Users can conveniently export their finalized resumes in multiple formats, facilitating sharing with employers or uploading to job portals.
• Mobile-friendly design: ResumeSpice is optimized for mobile devices, allowing users to create and modify their resumes using smartphones or tablets.
• Cloud storage: The platform provides secure cloud storage for users’ resumes, ensuring accessibility and updates from any device with an internet connection.
• Resume tracking: ResumeSpice includes tools for tracking the performance of submitted resumes, such as monitoring views, downloads, and application outcomes. These features empower users to evaluate their progress and make data-driven enhancements to their job search strategies.
• Entry Level Resume : $479
• Professional Resume : $589
• Executive Resume : $699

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TopResume - Best Resume Builder for Customer Service

Star Rating: 3.6/5

TopResume is an outstanding resume builder explicitly tailored for customer service professionals. It offers a seamless and user-friendly experience, enabling users to create exceptional resumes effortlessly. The platform goes beyond just providing a basic resume template, offering valuable suggestions and tips to optimize the content.

This ensures that each resume created on TopResume is unique and attention-grabbing in the highly competitive job market.

Besides its user-friendly interface, TopResume provides expert review services. These services allow skilled professionals to provide personalized feedback on resumes, helping enhance their overall quality further. By leveraging this feedback and incorporating attention to detail, customer service professionals can create compelling resumes that effectively capture the attention of potential employers.

• Streamlined registration process
• Well-designed and formatted one-page resume
• The summary and Job Scope sections were overly extended
• The training section needed to have prominence
• Skill-based sections: The resume builder features dedicated sections highlighting essential customer service skills, including communication, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and relationship building.
• Expert review services: TopResume provides expert review services where experienced professionals offer personalized feedback and recommendations to enhance the overall quality of your resume.
• ATS compatibility: The platform ensures that the resumes created are compatible with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), which employers commonly use for scanning and filtering resumes.
• Download and sharing options: Users can download their resumes in various formats, such as PDF or Word, and easily share them with potential employers or upload them to job portals.
• Industry-Specific Tips: TopResume offers industry-specific tips and guidance to assist users in tailoring their resumes to the customer service field, helping them stand out among competitors.
• Cover letter builder: Besides resume building, TopResume provides a builder that empowers users to craft professional and compelling cover letters customized for customer service roles.
• Mobile accessibility: The platform is mobile-friendly, allowing users to create, edit, and update their resumes while on the go, using their smartphones or tablets.
• Entry level : Up to 200$.
• Professional level : Up to 200$-400$.
• Executive level : Up to $350-$700.

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Resume Writing Services - Best Resume Builder for Affordability

Star Rating: 3.3/5

While Resumewritingservices.org may be a different size than its competitors, it stands out due to its team of talented and experienced resume writers. The website is user-friendly and provides exceptional service. However, this service’s true strength lies in its writers’ expertise.

Resumewritingservices.org sets itself apart by offering a comprehensive consultation process and goes beyond expectations by providing unlimited calls with its resume writers. This personalized approach distinguishes them from other companies and guarantees each client receives individual attention and support.

• Experienced resume writers of the highest caliber
• Unlimited phone consultations and revisions
• More expensive than rival services
• A limited range of products
• Skilled and experienced resume writers: Resumewritingservices.org takes pride in its team of highly trained and professional resume writers who possess a deep understanding of crafting effective resumes.
• Personalized service: Resumewritingservices.org offers a personal touch by providing unlimited calls with their resume writers. This unique feature allows clients to engage in direct communication and close collaboration with the writers throughout the resume creation process.
• Competitive job market expertise: The writers at Resumewritingservices.org have knowledge of current job market trends. This ensures that the resumes they create are optimized to excel in today’s fiercely competitive job market.
• Quality Assurance: The service maintains a rigorous quality assurance process to guarantee that the resumes delivered to clients meet the highest standards and align with their expectations.
• Timely delivery: Resumewritingservices.org is committed to delivering resumes within the agreed-upon timeframe, ensuring clients receive their documents promptly.
• Client satisfaction guarantee: Resumewritingservices.org offers a client satisfaction guarantee, assuring clients are fully content with the final resume. The service is ready to provide revisions if necessary.
• Affordable pricing: Resumewritingservices.org provides pricing options that are competitive and transparent, making professional resume writing accessible to a wide range of job seekers.

Resumewritingservices.org employs a pricing system that is clear and easy to understand for their resume-building services. The initial package begins at $270 , including a comprehensive consultation with a skilled resume writer and developing an individualized resume.

They offer extra options that enable customers to personalize their packages based on their unique preferences. This adaptable pricing strategy guarantees that clients can choose the services that align with their requirements and financial constraints.

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Craft Resumes - Best Resume Builder for Quick-Turnaround

Star Rating: 3/5

Craft Resumes stand out as a well-established writing and editing service known for its ability to deliver effective outcomes. Our dedication to providing a 24-hour turnaround guarantees you’ll receive the initial version of your resume promptly.

Navigating our user-friendly website is effortless, making it easy to use our services. At Craft Resumes, we specialize in crafting customized resumes to match your skills, qualifications, and aspirations for your career.

• Speedy completion
• Customized CVs
• Intuitive site
• Insufficient details
• Absence of assurances
• Quick turnaround: Craft Resumes commits to delivering the initial draft of your resume within 24 hours, ensuring a speedy and efficient service.
• Expert Writers: Craft Resumes prides itself on its team of experienced writers who possess expertise across various industries and stay up-to-date with current hiring trends. They’re dedicated to making your resume stand out and catch the attention of potential employers.
• Unlimited revisions: We provide unlimited revisions to guarantee your complete satisfaction. If you have specific changes or additions in mind, our team will collaborate with you closely to implement the modifications.
• Confidentiality and Privacy: At Craft Resumes, we prioritize the confidentiality and privacy of your personal information. You can trust that your data will be handled securely and with the utmost discretion.
• Tailored resumes: We specialize in tailoring resumes to align with your career objectives, industry, and job requirements. Each resume is personalized to accentuate your unique strengths and qualifications.
• Resume Writing : $229.00
• Basic : $279.99
• Optimal : $339.99
• All-In-One : $499.99

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Resume Companion - Best Value Resume Builder

Star Rating: 2.8/5

Resume Companion is a virtual platform and service that specializes in aiding individuals in creating resumes that are professional and impactful. It offers an array of resources and tools to assist job seekers in crafting interesting resumes that effectively showcase their skills, experiences, and qualifications.

A prominent feature of Resume Companion is its user-friendly resume builder. This tool allows users to select from various professionally designed templates and personalize them based on their specific requirements.

Users can effortlessly incorporate their personal information, employment history, educational background, skill set, and other pertinent details to produce a customized resume tailored to their needs.

• Intuitive user interface
• High-quality templates
• Efficiency-boosting functions
• Cost-effective choice
• Restricted editing features without subscription
• Absence of extensive customization options
• Limited availability of extra services
• Cover letter builder: Resume Companion goes beyond resumes and provides users with a tool for crafting customized cover letters tailored to specific job applications. This feature guides users through the process, helping them effectively present their qualifications and make a compelling case to prospective employers.
• ATS optimization: In today’s job market, many companies use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to screen resumes. Resume Companion helps users ensure their resumes are ATS-friendly. The platform offers valuable tips and insights on incorporating relevant keywords, formatting the document correctly, and increasing the likelihood of passing through the ATS screening process.
• Educational resources: Resume Companion extends its services by offering an informative blog and educational materials that cover various aspects of resume writing, job search strategies, interview techniques, and career development guidance. These resources provide users with valuable insights and advice to help them create impressive resumes and enhance their job search efforts.
• Download and sharing options: Upon completing their resumes, users can conveniently download their documents in multiple formats, including PDF and Word. Resume Companion also makes it easy for users to share their resumes online or print them offline.
• Customer support: Resume Companion values user satisfaction and offers customer support to assist with users’ questions or concerns while utilizing the platform. Users can access support through email or the platform’s contact form.

Resume Companion provides a cost-effective solution for individuals seeking an all-inclusive service. It’s vital to remember subscription renewal is required to access future editing services. In summary, Resume Companion offers a wallet-friendly option for those who desire a user-friendly resume-building experience without needing advanced writing abilities.

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Our Ranking Methodology for Best Resume Writing Services

To comprehensively and objectively rank the top resume writing services, it is essential to have a thorough methodology. The first step in this process was conducting extensive research and analysis. This involved gathering a comprehensive list of reputable resume-writing services from multiple sources such as online searches, customer reviews, industry directories, and personal recommendations.

• Feature analysis: Evaluate the functionalities provided by each resume builder, considering elements like template variety and quality, customization flexibility, user-friendly editing and formatting options, import/export capabilities, spell check and grammar tools, and integration with job search platforms and professional networks.
• Template collection: Examine the assortment and quality of templates. Look for a wide range that suits various industries, job levels, and design preferences, considering these templates’ aesthetics, readability, and contemporary design.
• Editing and customization: Scrutinize the adaptability and user-friendliness of the editing and customization tools each resume builder provides. Assess the capacity to add or modify sections, reorganize content, and tailor resumes to specific job requirements.
• User interface and experience: Analyze the user interface and the overall user experience each resume builder offers. Evaluate the ease of navigation, instruction clarity, guidance or prompts, and the platform’s responsiveness.
• Integration with job search platforms: Determine whether resume builders offer seamless integration with popular job search platforms and professional networks like LinkedIn or ATS systems. Consider how well the resumes can be transferred and their compatibility with these platforms.
• Additional resources: Evaluate if the resume builders provide extra resources such as sample resumes, tools for creating cover letters, interview tips, or career advice. Consider the breadth and practicality of these supplementary resources.
• Mobile-friendliness: Gauge the mobile-friendliness and responsiveness of the resume builders, recognizing the growing trend of mobile job searching and application processes.
• Customer support: Reflect on the accessibility and quality of customer support services, encompassing options like live chat, email support, or knowledge bases. Assess the responsiveness and helpfulness of the support team.
• Pricing and value for money: Appraise the pricing plans presented by the resume builders in terms of the value they offer based on features, usability, and overall service quality.
• Industry reputation: Consider the standing and trustworthiness of the resume builders, considering factors such as awards, recognition, partnerships, and user feedback from reputable sources.

Buyer’s Guide: Why Use a Resume Builder?

Crafting a well-crafted CV comes naturally to particular job seekers. However, even the most seasoned experts may need help in resume writing. If you find yourself in need of help with creating a compelling resume, here are several ways in which the best online resume builder can be beneficial:

Resume builders provide users with pre-designed templates and helpful tips, streamlining the process of writing a resume and alleviating stress.

Offers Writing Tips

Promoting oneself requires considerable effort. Only some people possess writing skills, even if they enjoy self-promotion. To showcase one’s experience and knowledge effectively, a resume builder can help select the most appropriate words and phrases.

Improves Design

In every field, there are unique standards for an impressive resume. If you need to gain knowledge in design or the tools, resume builders can provide free templates to enhance your resume’s visual appeal and quality.

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Recruiters often use ATS systems to scan resumes. A good resume builder will help with formatting to ensure that your resume is easy for these systems to read.

What’s the Best Resume Builder?

The ideal resume builder for each individual may differ according to their specific requirements. If you prefer a tool that offers step-by-step guidance in creating your resume, we suggest using a builder that provides helpful tips and recommendations. If you prefer a resume builder that auto-generates a summary, we recommend using a tool that extracts information from your LinkedIn profile.

For those who enjoy having creative control over their resumes, we suggest using a platform with features. By selecting the resume builder that aligns with your needs and suits your industry and personal style, you’ll significantly increase your chances of capturing the attention of hiring managers.

Resume Builder vs. Resume Writing Service: What Matters for You

When it comes to crafting a resume, there are three options available. You can opt to create it independently, use a resume builder tool, or enlist the services of a professional resume writer. Your best choice will depend on your writing abilities, available time, and financial resources.

Do-It-Yourself

You have the choice to construct a resume entirely by yourself. The benefit of this option is that it costs nothing but requires a significant amount of effort. Along with composing all the information, you must possess graphic design skills.

This approach works well if you have these abilities, but with them, your options for creating a resume are unlimited. To overcome this limitation, you can use a resume builder or enlist the help of a resume writing service.

Resume Builder

A tool for creating resumes allows you to input your details into a template, resulting in an original appearance and layout with no design work. The top resume building tools also offer suggestions on enhancing your resume and tailoring it to match the specific job you are applying for.

While you are still responsible for writing the content, once it is written, you can quickly transfer that information into any other template with just a few simple clicks. Some of these services are free and many like to promote themselves as such, but most require a small payment to download your finished resume.

Professional Resume Writing Service

Professional resume writing services are expensive, but they offer the convenience of handling all the work for you. An experienced writer will gather relevant information about your background and transform it into a unique and engaging resume.

The process typically takes a few days, and the level of originality in the outcome largely relies on your choice of company and writer. However, we will not delve into these services further in this guide.

Are Resume Builders Worth It?

Definitely, without a doubt. An effective resume creator will guarantee that your CV is formatted correctly to navigate Applicant Tracking Systems and ultimately reach the hands of recruiters.

Is It Unprofessional to Use a Microsoft Word Resume Template?

Relying on a template will not set you apart, and there is a high likelihood that your application will be dismissed because your resume is identical to those of other job seekers.

Final Thoughts

Choosing the right resume builder is crucial in today’s competitive job market. Creating a professional and impactful resume that stands out from the crowd can significantly impact your job search. With the right tool, you can save time, improve your chances of landing an interview, and ultimately secure your dream job.

When selecting a resume builder, consider your specific needs and priorities. Look for features like customizable templates, industry-specific examples, and the ability to export your resume in different formats. Consider user reviews and ratings to ensure you choose a reputable and reliable platform.

Remember, an exceptional tool for crafting resumes should give you the power to present your skills, experience, and accomplishments effectively. It should simplify and expedite creating a resume without hassle. Investing in a reliable resume builder is investing in your professional future.

Therefore, explore the different options available for resume builders. Test out their free trials or demos and choose the best fit for your objectives. Our top recommendation is Super Star Resume . This meticulously designed resume can open doors to exciting career prospects and be a dependable companion on your journey toward success.

Ahad Waseem is a business, blockchain, and cybersecurity writer who often takes on art, politics, and economics too. As a linguistic engineer who writes to solve problems, he’s written for various tech and business publications. When he’s not writing, he’s probably on horseback, caring for his houseplants, or training Bonsai trees. He can be reached at [email protected] . McClatchy’s newsrooms were not involved in the creation of this content. We may earn a commission if you make a purchase through one of our links.

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How do I update my resume to help land that job? Ask HR

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR professional society and author of "Reset: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval.”

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Question: Since leaving a job I have had for almost a decade, I have primarily conducted my job search online. I have used the same resume design since I started working 12 years ago. Should I update my resume design to be more effective? What do you recommend for building a modern resume? – Sandra

Answer: Updating your resume design can indeed be a wise move, especially if you've been using the same format for a long time. A fresh, modern design can help your resume stand out and leave a positive impression on recruiters and hiring managers. Here’s what I recommend for building a modern resume:

◾ Clean, professional layout: Opt for a layout that’s visually appealing and easy to read. Avoid cluttered designs and overly decorative elements that may distract from your content.

◾ Font selection: Stick to standard, easy-to-read fonts such as Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman. These fonts are widely accepted and compatible with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), ensuring your résumé is easily scannable by both humans and software.

◾ Incorporate keywords: Tailor your resume to each job application by incorporating industry-specific keywords and phrases relevant to the position. Many companies use ATS to screen résumés, so this will increase the likelihood of your resume being noticed.

◾ Organized sections: Structure your resume into clear sections, including Contact Information, Summary or Objective, Work Experience, Skills, Education and any additional relevant sections such as Certifications or Volunteer Work. This organization makes it easy for recruiters to quickly find the information they need.

◾ Summary/objective statement: Start your résumé with a summary that highlights your key qualifications and career goals. Keep it concise, focusing on what sets you apart and what you aim to achieve in your career.

◾ Accomplishment-oriented experience: When listing your work experience, focus on highlighting your accomplishments, rather than just listing job duties. Use quantifiable achievements whenever possible, to demonstrate your impact, such as increasing sales by a certain percentage or leading successful projects.

◾ Skills section: Dedicate a section to showcasing your key skills and competencies, including both technical skills and soft skills relevant to the job. This section provides recruiters with a quick overview of your capabilities.

◾ Proofreading: Before submitting your resume, thoroughly proofread it to ensure there are no grammatical errors, typos, or formatting issues. Consider having someone else review your resume for feedback and additional insights.

By updating your resuméewith a modern design and incorporating these key elements, you can increase your chances of making a strong impression in today’s competitive job market. Good luck with your job search!

Ghosting a job Is it bad to ghost low priority potential employers? Ask HR

I've been denied PTO requests on multiple occasions, which is becoming increasingly frustrating. Most of them are denied on the grounds of staffing needs. Do I have any recourse in fighting these denials? What can I do to ensure PTO approvals? – Chanette

You may indeed have some recourse in addressing these denied paid time off requests. Start by reviewing your company's PTO policy and procedures. Many employers have specific guidelines regarding PTO requests, including deadlines for submission and limits on the number of employees who can be on leave simultaneously, to ensure adequate staffing levels.

First, check if your PTO requests were made in accordance with company policy. If they were not, ensure that you adhere to the established procedures for future requests, to increase the likelihood of approval.

However, if you followed company policy and your requests were still denied, consider discussing the matter with your manager or the human resources team. Seek clarification on the reasons for the denials and inquire about potential strategies to improve the approval rate for your requests.

It's also essential to consider whether your state mandates sick leave, and if your company uses PTO to fulfill those requirements. If so, your employer may be obligated to approve leave requests that align with qualifying reasons for sick leave under the law. If you’re uncertain about your state’s sick leave requirements, consult your HR team for clarification.

Ultimately, unless there is a contractual agreement or policy stating otherwise, employers typically have discretion in managing PTO usage. However, by following company procedures and addressing your concerns with management or HR, you may increase the likelihood of having your PTO requests approved more frequently.

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