"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."

                                                                            -Hardy D. Jackson

I read this quote on a friends Facebook page just now and it rang my bell.  It reminded me of something one of my mentors, Rick Thorpe, said to me almost 20 years ago and I wanted to share it with you.

"Do something you love every day of your life and you will never work a day in your life."

I have used his words as a compass ever since and I like this new take on it from Hardy.  I really do believe that one of the secrets to success is to align yourself with something that you can fall in love with.  When you love what you are doing you're going to do what it takes to be great at it.

Not to say that everything that you do you're going to love.  We all have to do a lot of things that we don't love.  Think pareto principle or the 80-20 rule.  Just make sure that the love component is on the 80 side of that principle.

So what if you're not doing something you love?  What can you do about it?  My recommendation is to start asking yourself some questions...

When have you been most happy?  What was it about that time that you enjoyed most?

What if you could do anything?  What would you do?  What is it about those things that you love?

What do you love about what you do now?  Where could that make up 80% of your time?

If you could change anything about your life now what would that be?

Those questions are the beginning of creating something fresh in your life.

But what then....well come on back and visit us because helping you get the most out of you is what I love.