career

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself__ou are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

Don__ do it! Don__ you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.

After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business.

Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one." --Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.

Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don't allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies . . . I'm not asking you to cut people out of your life, but I am asking you to invest your time with people who will push you to be your best. Winners love to see other people win.

Vested in fear, frightened of failure, but beyond that I choose to surrender to my fated success.

And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that theirs are limitless. Once you commit to something, though, that ceases to be true. A former student sent me an essay he wrote, a few years after college, called "The Paradox of Potential." Yale students, he said, are like stem cells. They can be anything in the world, so they try to delay for as long as possible the moment when they have to become just one thing in particular. Possibility, paradoxically, becomes limitation.

When you're vested in fear, frightened of failure, yet in the surrender is where you find your success.

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. _Our worldly power results from our personal power. _Our career is an extension of our personality. People who profoundly achieve aren't necessarily people who do so much, they're people around whom things get done. Mahatma Gandhi and JFK were great examples of this. _Their great achievements lay in all the energy they stirred in other people,_the invisible forces they unleashed around them. _By touching their own depths, they touched the depths within others. _That kind of charisma, the power to affect what happens on the earth, from an invisible realm within is the natural right and function of the son of god. _New frontiers are internal ones, the real stretch is always within us. _Instead of expanding our ability or willingness to go out and get anything, we expand our ability to receive what is already here for us. _Personal power emanates from someone who takes life seriously. _The universe takes us as seriously as we take it. _There is no greater seriousness than the full_appreciation of the power and importance of love. _Miracles flow from the recognition that love is the purpose of our career.