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The principles of self creation

The person who receives no pay for their services except that which comes in the pay envelope is underpaid no matter how much the money that envelope may contain.
-Napoleon Hill

Work that you do merely for the sake of earning a living is seldom enjoyable. Time passes slowly, and boredom and weariness are inevitable in such circumstances.

It is possible, however, to be engaged in work that you love, work that gives you personal satisfaction and which you approach in a spirit of anticipation and excitement. When engaged in work that you love, you can labor for unbelievably long periods of time without noticing the clock, because you are focused on the challenge and the satisfaction you are getting.

Your endurance, therefore, depends very largely on the extent to which you like, dislike, or love what you are doing.

You are the most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that you love, or work that you perform on behalf of some person whom you love.

Whenever the element of love enters into any task you perform, the quality of your work becomes immediately improved and the quantity increased, without a corresponding increase in the fatigue cause by that work.

Work is love made visible.
-Kahlil Gibran

The motivating power of loving what you do

When you are engaged in work that you love, it is no hardship to do more work and better work than that for which you are paid. For this reason you owe it to yourself to find the sort of work you like the best.

Most successful people have a passion for what they do, which is what motivates them to put greater effort and time whatever it is that they want to achieve.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill

A man who cannot reach a decision promptly once he has all the necessary facts, cannot be depended upon to carry through any decision he may make.

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