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99. 
Love Your Work  
One of the timeless secrets to a long, happy life is to love your work. The golden thread running through the 
lives of history’s most satisfied people is that they all loved what they did for a living. When psychologist Vera 
John Steiner interviewed one hundred creative people, she found they all had one thing in common: an intense 
passion for their work. Spending your days doing work that you find rewarding, intellectually challenges and 
fun will do more than all the spa vacations in the world to keep your spirits high and your heart engaged. 
Thomas Edison, a man who recorded 1,093 patents in his lifetime, ranging from the phonographs, the 
incandescent light bulb and the microphone to the movies, had this to say about his brilliant career at the end of 
his life, “I never did a day’s work in my life: it was all fun.” 
When you love your job, you discover you will never have to work another day in your life. Your work 
will be play and the hours will slip away as quickly as they came. As novelist James Michener wrote: 
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 life 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. 

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100. 
Selflessly Serve 
Albert Schweitzer said, “There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the 
greatest creed.” And the ancient Chinese believed that “a little fragrance always clings to the hand that gives 
you roses.” One of the greatest lessons for a highly fulfilling life is to rise from a life spent chasing success to 
one dedicated to finding significance. And the best way to create significance is to ask yourself one simple 
question, “How may I serve?” 
All great leaders, thinkers and humanitarians have abandoned selfish lives for selfless lives and, in doing 
so, found all the happiness, abundance and satisfaction they desired. They have all understood that all – 
important truth of humanity: you cannot pursue success; success ensues. It flows as the unintended but 
inevitable by – product of a life spent serving people and adding value to the world. 
Mahatma Gandhi understood the service ethic better than most. In one memorable story from his life, he 
was traveling across India by train. As he left the car he had been riding in, one of his shoes fell to a place on 
the tracks well beyond his reach. Rather than worrying about getting it back, he did something that startled his 
traveling companions: he removed his other shoe and threw it to where the first one rested. When asked why he 
did this, Gandhi smiled and replied: “Now the poor soul who finds the first one will have a pair he can wear.” 

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