Secrets

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing - Dale Carnegie.

That is probably why so few people achieve become successful. Mostly, people get along in life doing what's doable in order to survive. It's not that anyone likes to do a job they don't like for an entire lifetime, there simply isn't any choice.

Passing a judgement on what someone's doing for a living is easy. Just start pointing out the mistakes and criticize everything they do! Laying out expectations which can't be achieved and bringing out the worst in a person is relatively easy. Inspiring someone to perform at the desired levels and motivating to bring out their best is the difficult part which defines a leader.

What happens realistically is that people try to find happiness in what they do for a living rather than doing something which makes them happy. No one likes to dig their own grave; purposefully or otherwise. It's the societal compulsions which force a person to forego the options to choose.

It's also important to realize what it is that makes one happy. Contrary to what is popularly believed, not everyone knows what is it exactly that makes them happy. So how would it be possible to choose the work which would cause life long happiness? What you want to do can be very different from what you can do and what you are good at doing. It is the culmination of these three into one single thing which creates a happy and successful life.