Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion.