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• A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it.

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  Dream, Goal

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

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• How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

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  Struggle, Focus, Excellence

  Dan Miller (2007). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

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  Successful, Errors, Differences

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?” Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?

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  Scratches, Credit, Wow

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• Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.

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  Opportunity, Transition, Looks

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.28, B&H Publishing Group

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• Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

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  Motivational, Expectations, Be Careful

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• Meaningful work is within your grasp.

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  Meaningful, Meaningful Work

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• You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence.

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  Moving, Circles, Careers

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love: An Interactive Study”, p.9, B&H Publishing Group

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• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

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  Independent, Thinking, Government

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• In today’s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.

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  Creativity, May, Today

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• Opportunity lies between your own two ears

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  Lying, Opportunity, Two

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• I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and haven’t looked back. I’m fond of hackysack, racquetball, BBQ grilling, hanging out with my wife and friends

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  Moving, Bbq, Hands

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• In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

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  Thinking, Alaska, Working Together

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• The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

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  Relationship, Blessed, Heart

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• To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

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  Jobs, Inward, Looks

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.74, B&H Publishing Group

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• My underwear is my own person buisness.

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  Underwear, Buisness, Persons

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• Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.

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  Determined, Ability, Wells

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.164, B&H Publishing Group

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• True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm.

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  Enthusiasm, Selling

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• Continual learning is the key to continual living.

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  Motivational, Keys

  Dan Miller, Jared Angaza (2012). “Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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