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“Better questions to ask regarding a career or job choice would be: What was I born to do? What would be my greatest contribution to others? What do I really love to do (and when I’m doing it, time just flies by)? What are the recurring themes that I find myself drawn to? How do I want to be remembered?”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Next time you meet someone, try asking, “How are you making the world a better place?” rather than the normal, “What do you do?”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” —Mark Twain”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“If failure is not a possibility then winning is not so sweet.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action—which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don’t get stuck along the way.” —Dan Miller”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination.” —Dan Miller”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“As Thomas Merton put it, “A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“A Prayer for Joy” Help me, O God, To listen to what it is that makes my heart glad And to follow where it leads. May joy, not guilt, Your voice, not the voices of others, Your will, not my willfulness, Be the guides that lead me to my vocation. Help me to unearth the passions of my heart That lay buried in my youth. And help me to go over that ground again and again Until I can hold in my hands, Hold and treasure, Your calling on my life. —Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you. So carve your name on hearts and not on marble.” — C. H. Spurgeon”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love 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. —James Michener”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. All work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God. —Kahlil”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Research shows that if you are under thirty years old, there is a 90 percent chance you will be fired sometime in the next twenty years.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Hill once said: “Failure seems to be nature’s plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.”4”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” — Leonardo da Vinci”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love

“Your only “security” is knowing what you do well. Knowing your areas of competence will give you freedom amid corporate politics and unexpected layoffs. Wayne Gretzky was once asked why he was such a great hockey player. He responded with an eloquent morsel of wisdom: “I simply went to where the puck was going to be.” An average player would go where the puck was or is.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Henry Ford said, “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”3”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“The fruits of a fulfilling life—happiness, confidence, enthusiasm, purpose, and money—are mainly by-products of doing something we enjoy, with excellence, rather than things we can seek directly.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” —Leonardo Da Vinci”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” —Henry Ford5”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“every problem brings with it the seed of a solution,”
― Dan Miller, Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate

“(Speaking of driving time—join the Automobile University. If you drive twenty-five thousand miles a year at an average speed of 46 mph, you will spend about the same amount of time in your car as an average college student spends in the classroom. The question then is, what are you doing with that time? You can listen to any one of thousands of programs and transform your success.)”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God” (1 Pet. 4:10).”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Being positive will inject in you a sense of peace and tranquility amidst the troubled waters.”
― Dan Miller, Positive Attitude - Key to Success: You can't live a positive life with a Negative Mind

“Perhaps the unwelcome event you’ve encountered is just an opportunity to help you know how to stand up stronger.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Sanctified ignorance, the belief that if we love God and commit our lives to Him everything will just work out, is an immature theology. If you get up each morning with a clean slate, being open to whatever may happen that day, you will live a life of mediocrity. It is not the path of accomplishment, of excellence, of maximizing our impact and witness. The path of least resistance—just going where it seems easiest to go—creates very crooked streams and very frustrated people. The truly godly life is one of focused purpose, having, like the apostle Paul, defined the goal and created a plan for its accomplishment.”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“Would it be unreasonable to expect to find fulfilling, enjoyable, spiritually significant, income-producing work?”
― Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal