Most people have decided to live their life practicing in preparation for the real performance.

"I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is not something that happens to you. Happiness is inside each of us now. We are motivated from within. We only have to allow happiness to surface.

Happiness = K (Knowing who you are) X D (Discovering your life's work) X L (Learning not to tolerate what's not important). That's the formula for success and happiness....know yourself, your true calling and that you get what you tolerate.

In medicine, you look at how "well tolerated" a drug will be related to its side effects. At work and home, many people evaluate new opportunities related to what can be well tolerated. Yet, after life, most people don't want their tombstone to read, "He tolerated stuff for other people because they paid him." Especially, when we realize that we can have more fun doing work that engages our passions. Life is too short for doing work you don't enjoy for people you don't respect.