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99.
Love Your Work
One of the timeless secrets to a long, happy life is to love
our work. The golden thread running through the lives
of history's most satisfied people is that they all loved
what they did for a living. When psychologist Vera John-
Steiner interviewed one hundred creative people, she
found they all had one thing in common: an intense
passion for their work. Spending your days doing work
that you find rewarding, intellectually challenging and
fun will do more than all the spa vacations in the world
to keep your spirits high and your heart engaged. Thomas
Edison, a man who recorded 1 ,093 patents in his lifetime,
ranging from the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb
and the microphone to the movies, had this to say about
his brilliant career at the end of his life, "I never did a
day's work in my life: it was all fun.
When you love your job, you discover you will never
have to work another day in your life. Your work will be
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play and the hours will slip away as quickly as they
came. As novelist James Michener wrote:
The master in the art of living makes little distinc-
tion between his work and his play, his labor and his
leisure, his mind and his body, his information and
his recreation, his life and his religion. He hardly
knows which is which. He simply pursues his
vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving
others to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him, he is always doing both.
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98.
Collect Quotes That Inspire You
If you have read The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari or any
of my other books, you know that I love using quotations
from the world's great thinkers. I never knew why I loved
these as much as I do until one of my mentors, after read-
ing a manuscript I'd written, said, "You love quotations
for the same reason I do, Robin. A great quote contains a
wealth of wisdom in a single line. "
So often in my readings, I come across just the right
quote, which contains the ideal answer to a challenge I
am facing. And my mentor was right. The value of a great
quote does lie in the fact that it contains a world of
wisdom, wisdom that may have taken the author many
years to arrive at, in a line or two.
Over the next few weeks, start your own collection of
quotations, words that you can keep referring to when
you need some instant inspiration or advice about how to
deal with those curves life sometimes sends our way.
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Another effective way that I use quotes is to paste them
in places where I know I will see them throughout the
day, such as on my bathroom mirror, on the refrigerator
door, on the dashboard of my car and throughout my
office. This simple discipline keeps me focused on what's
essential during busy times, positive during trying times
and centered on the principles of real success. On my
personal computer, I have now collected hundreds of
quotes from great leaders, thinkers, poets and philoso-
phers on subjects such as how to deal with adversity, the
meaning of life, the value of self-improvement, the
importance of helping others, the power of our thoughts
and the need for a strong character.
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