One Friday a Stanford student named Herb was offered a secretary’s job. He said that he couldn’t start until Wednesday. Later, the employer asked Herb why he didn’t start right away. Herbert Hoover, a future U.S. president, replied, “I had to find a typewriter and learn how to use it.”

President Hoover once said, “No difficult or simple job ever gets done until someone decides right now to do what it takes to get the job done. Unfortunately, too many people stand by ready to carry the stool when there is a piano to be moved.”

Many people hate their jobs and try to just muddle through each workday. Wise King Solomon wrote, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). It doesn’t matter what you do—school teacher, janitor, executive—approach every day as if your job is the most important job in the world.

Real success is the feeling of accomplishment that comes at the end of such a day.