When You Love Your Job, Success Will Follow

How often do you hear stories about people who've accepted positions at companies they didn't care about and for roles they despised, only to make a lucrative career out of it? You don't. Because this kind of thing doesn't happen. The truth is, one of the keys to success is to actually love what you do. This doesn't mean that you have to love every aspect of your job all the time, of course. There will be days when you'll dread getting out of bed in the morning. There will be projects that will test your patience and aptitude. There will be difficult situations that arise with employees, other executives, and even clients. Every working professional experiences similar ups and downs, but here's the difference: when you love what you do, these hurdles are just temporary setbacks to overcome that will push you to grow as a leader. But if you don't enjoy what you do, these hurdles gradually accumulate and weigh heavily on your shoulders, eventually squeezing you of all of your happiness and self-regard.  People like Brandon Stanton and J.K. Rowling are telling examples of this. Both Stanton and Rowling were adamantly passionate about the projects they were working on but were ignored and rejected for years. Such consistent rejection would have caused most people to abandon their projects in pursuit of something else. Still, Stanton and Rowling's passion left them determined to find success somehow -- and that's exactly what happened. Stanton went on to create Human...
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