[Dale Wiley]

I picked up a couple of magazines early last month at San Diego airport and flopped them on my coffee table when I got home. I was cleaning the house yesterday and picked on up to look at and came away with some good ideas.

These are from Entrepreneur magazine October 2005, a regular feature called Be your own boss / success coach.

It is not about the number of hours we spend on a goal, but the ultimate outcome of our efforts.

Remember that time is not an adequeate measure of hard work. It is simply the action of applying effort to produce favorable outcomes.

Hard work does not have to be associated with pain or long hours.

We have been taught that to attain economic freedom and professional success, we must spend many hours with our noses to the grindstone.

No one else can define the number of hours you must spend working, it is an individual choice. The true measure of your hard work is the personal awarness that you have worked to the best of your ability to complete a goal.

These are some pretty simple concepts, but some that I have ignored and are trying to correct.