Quitter
The first step, obviously, is that you have to value the work. It’s your right and responsibility to use your creativity. Stake your claim. You’re doing that. But then treating the work as if it’s something that should just happen because it matters to you is a recipe for failure.
Jessica Abel • Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life
money, prestige and power are the rewards of working with passion over a long period of time; they cannot be the solitary aim of your work. Love of what you practice is critical to enjoying the journey and ultimately achieving your ambitions
Nir Eyal • What A-Players Do That You Don’t
What you do next though is what forms your character. It’s what determines the course of your life’s work and what makes a legacy. It’s the difference between someone who creates something memorable and meaningful and someone who just gives up.
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
Although my podcast and writing were starting to feel much more important, they still had to coexist with the consulting project. So I came up with a mantra for future decisions: “Coming alive over getting ahead.” It was a reminder to choose work that lit me up, rather than work that merely serves to earn more money.