<p><img decoding="async" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/paul-j-meyer.jpg" class="alignleft" title="Paul J. Meyer - motivational speaker and author" border="0" />Work is Pure JOY!</p>
<p>Work polishes silver and gold . . .it refines character.<br />
Work rows &#8220;Life&#8217;s Boat&#8221; upstream.<br />
Work weeds the garden and the mind,<br />
Work lifts weights and spirits,<br />
Work overcomes adversity and defeat,<br />
Work is an exciting thrill!<br />
Work is the action in motivation.<br />
Work is the breath of life.<br />
Work is the reward for being alive.<br />
Work mines coal from the earth and uncovers diamonds!<br />
Work moves the wings that put the eagles high in the air.<br />
Work brings reality to the dreams of inventors.<br />
Work &#8211; intelligent work &#8211; has made America the most prosperous nation in the world.<br />
Work, when applied toward a meaningful goal, develops human potential. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/07/motivation-tip-the-exciting-thrill-of-work-by-paul-j-meyer/" title="Permanent Link: Motivation Tip: The Exciting Thrill of Work by Paul J. Meyer" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1141,"date":"2012-07-17T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:42:57","slug":"motivation-tip-the-exciting-thrill-of-work-by-paul-j-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/07\/motivation-tip-the-exciting-thrill-of-work-by-paul-j-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation Tip: The Exciting Thrill of Work by Paul J. Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/paul-j-meyer.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Paul J. Meyer - motivational speaker and author\" border=\"0\" \/>Work is Pure JOY!<\/p>\n<p>Work polishes silver and gold . . .it refines character.<br \/>\nWork rows &#8220;Life&#8217;s Boat&#8221; upstream.<br \/>\nWork weeds the garden and the mind,<br \/>\nWork lifts weights and spirits,<br \/>\nWork overcomes adversity and defeat,<br \/>\nWork is an exciting thrill!<br \/>\nWork is the action in motivation.<br \/>\nWork is the breath of life.<br \/>\nWork is the reward for being alive.<br \/>\nWork mines coal from the earth and uncovers diamonds!<br \/>\nWork moves the wings that put the eagles high in the air.<br \/>\nWork brings reality to the dreams of inventors.<br \/>\nWork &#8211; intelligent work &#8211; has made America the most prosperous nation in the world.<br \/>\nWork, when applied toward a meaningful goal, develops human potential. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/07\/motivation-tip-the-exciting-thrill-of-work-by-paul-j-meyer\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Motivation Tip: The Exciting Thrill of Work by Paul J. Meyer\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}