What do you need in order to achieve?

I love TED.com. For those of you who are not familiar with it, TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design. Their tag line is, "Ideas Worth Spreading." Each year, TED holds a conference where thought leaders from various disciplines share their "Ideas Worth Spreading." There is a documentary about TED filmed at their 2006 conference called The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED that you can check out here on Hulu.   

I looked through the TED videos I have favorited over the past few years today, and rediscovered a presentation from the 2006 TED conference by Tony Robbins. He has a lot of great thoughts, but a particular one resonated with me.

Robbins says that emotion is the force of life. He believes the defining factor for achieving things in life is not resources, as people usually cite. The defining factor of achievement is resourcefulness, which is driven by emotions.

Resources           versus           Resourcefulness
- Time                                      - Creativity
- Money                                   - Determination
- Technology                           - Love
- Contacts                                - Curiosity
- Experience                            - Passion
- Management                         - Resolve

On job search and career advice sites, you usually only see articles about resources - networking for contacts, formatting resumes in Word, how to share your experience, etc. You don't hear about the importance of your resourcefulness, though. I believe it is the key, though, like Tony Robbins says. It is because of the resolve and determination you have during your job search, the creative ways you carry out your job search, and the passion you have for a job or company that you are successful in securing a job you will love.