The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

put away where they belonged. There was a familiar order to the place, a pattern that felt like ho ...

going, in order to get there. It seems obvious, but so many people chase after a dream without any idea ...

she can send her kids to school—is she poor? I don’t say this to make light of those who live on ...

Success Isn’t About You I always thought pursuing a dream was about you, that it was inherently ...

with having all that savings: I wasn’t motivated to work. After seeing work as a means of making a ...

camp just outside of Mombasa, Kenya. Work, it seems, was never meant to be something we do just to ...

to earn a living for thirty years to turn around and spend the next thirty giving it away. If signific ...

never be able to appreciate music the same way he does. In one scene, the two get in a fight when the f ...

“Mr. Holland, we are your symphony.”^1 Gertrude then asks him to come onstage as the curtains pull ba ...

much of a life at all. In your pursuit of a worthwhile vocation, you will be tempted to rush ...

The truth was I wanted to be like a lot of different writers, but what I really wanted was what ...

we’re afraid of being our true selves. But the lucky ones discover a different path. Or r ...

what is expected of us, or we listen to that voice of intuition deep inside promising something more ...

homes was nothing short of incredible. The homes were shacks with dirt floors. The children sl ...

putting off starting for “someday,” which never comes. This is common, and we tend to excuse our lack of act ...

other than that, you may stop short of the goal. You can, in fact, not live up to your potential. M ...

Stephen King wrote in his memoir that for years he approached his craft wasted, treating his ...

Several years ago, I wrote a list of dreams and goals with dates assigned to each. On that list ...

rooting for me from the very beginning. As you strive to achieve your life’s work, be careful of at what co ...

Stephen King quote. Life is not a support system for your work; your work is a support system for ...