Sometimes that means finding a problem we hate. Sometimes that means finding a problem we love. In either case, the staying power is our passion … we must never let our pilot light go out, and we must find ways to fan our flames.

Our values add the fuel to our fires. When we connect with them, we amplify what we’re capable of.

Great articles, always, JD.

Thanks for sharing.

I think hard work gets a bad wrap. The key threats are:
- Your ladder up against the wrong wall
- “If-Then” thinking
- Out of balance
- Wrong strategies/tactics
- Meaningless void

But if you know how to deal with the key threats, then the upside is enormous. Hmmm … maybe one of my future books I should write is — “The Upside of Hard Work.”

If you “invest” your time in your passion work and “pull” yourself forward with your values, it’s a recipe for success (you never lose by spending more time in your values.)

@ Giulietta — You know what it means to make things happen.

Will is a powerful thing.

You found a key lesson in life — don’t sign up for stuff that sucks your life force out.

@ Ashok — Thank you.

There is more time ahead of us than behind us.

I have been reading your articals from more than 1 yr.
Really i have learned lot from it.

–Ashok.

If I believe in something I will get it done, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes. If I don’t, I won’t. This helps me keep myself in moral alignment. I don’t sign up or put myself in places where I’d be doing something I don’t want to be doing. It took me quite awhile to figure this out.

G.

William J. O’Neil, founder of Investors Business Daily, echoes the value of hard work as a differentiator in his book How to Make Money in Stocks.