Saw this quote the other day written on the whiteboard at an associate's desk...
"Energy without focus dissipates into aimless busyness or wasteful failures".
-Heike Bruch
Many of us have the desire to be successful...it's almost automatic. I would still argue that for most of us, "successful" is far too ambiguous. It's much more difficult to achieve a goal if that goal is vague and underdeveloped. Find out what that goal is first...make it relevant and honest and then shoot. Work hard...but work smart.
KD