A recent national survey listed Virginia Beach as this year’s 3rd hardest working city in America. I live and work in Virginia Beach and I work hard. My day starts between 2 and 2:30am. I spend about an hour checking emails, drinking coffee and preparing a few sandwiches to take in to work. I then shower and shave and take the 20 minute drive into work. I usually arrive between 4 and 4:30 am and leave the station around 1 or 2 pm. Then my work follows me home on my smartphone. After eating lunch and watching a little TV I start more work-related activities like preparing scripts, writing blogs (like this one) or some other work-related task. I generally take a power nap around 3 pm, join my family for dinner around 6:30 and I’m usually in bed between 7:30 and 8 pm. Even then my work sometime keeps running through my head at weird hours throughout the night. I find happiness and joy in my work. I believe lasting success only comes when you put in the work. Hard work is always the starting point.