Comments on: Success Finds Hard Work, Talent & Passion

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:55:11 +0000

I don’t have any special way to identify your strengths other than to live your life and find out. Think back to the things you enjoy doing and are able to do well, figure out why, and that should go a long way to identifying what you’re good at. I don’t think it’s possible ahead of time.

By: Nacie Carson

Nacie Carson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:48:00 +0000

Hi Jim,

Your post is right on, and something I’ve been considering myself a lot lately. I’ve been thinking about how it is important to focus on improving your natural talents to truly reach success, but your absolutely right: the key to this equation isn’t hard work or talent, it is passion.

If you have any, I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on how you can accurately identify your strengths or “talents”?

By: James Jose

James Jose — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:34:52 +0000

First time maybe ur are lucky but to repeat sucess u need much more than that…am sure a lot more will be added by the esteemed readers….

Wonderful points!!!

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:38:59 +0000

Great article! A lot of the “overnight” successes didn’t happen overnight. There was a lot of hard work & sacrifice involved. Thank you for the inspiration. I subscribed.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:27:02 +0000

Great.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:25:28 +0000

Your sister reads them too…=)

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:24:00 +0000

You’ve definitely been inspirational. Congrats on another year blogging.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:06:49 +0000

Very true, Jim. Hard work and skill can be learned, but passion is something you can’t teach – you either have it or you don’t.

I admire anyone who goes out there and chases his or her dream. It takes dedication to do that.

By: MoneyNing

MoneyNing — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:02:37 +0000

Great post! It’s always easy to assume that people who are successful got “lucky” but it’s amazing how much hard work the “lucky” ones put into what they truly love.

Cheers for passion, talent and hard work!

By: jim

jim — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:39:05 +0000

Thanks MBH

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:35:09 +0000

Very good post Jim.

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:34:21 +0000

Amen Jim. Too often people think it happens overnight, but it takes years to start seeing good results – and that’s only if you stick with it for that long.

Readers sometimes leave nasty comments saying that we don’t work because we happen to be able to do this from home; however, I can say I have not worked this much or this many hours at any “real” job I ever had. Great post.