Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

DETERMINE WHAT YOU ENJOY DOING
Self-made millionaires almost invariably say that their secret of suc-
cess was that they found out what they enjoyed doing, and they did
Commit to Excellence
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it with their whole heart. Most successful people feel that they don’t
really work at all. Some of them say, “I haven’t worked a day in my
life.” Their work and their play are intermingled. They don’t know
where one begins and the other ends. When they are not at work,
they think about it and talk about it. And when they are at work,
they lose themselves in it.
There are more than 22,000 official job categories in the United
States alone. Among these 22,000 categories, there are subcate-
gories that bring the number to easily 100,000 different jobs that
you could be doing. And most of the jobs that people will be doing
in the twenty-first century have not even been invented yet.
Of the many thousands of jobs that exist, there are numerous
jobs at which you could work and earn an excellent living.Your goal
must be to select the ideal job for you, the one that gives you the
greatest joy, satisfaction, and rewards, and then channel all of your
energies into becoming absolutely excellent in that one area.
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