On March 9, 2009, Annie Duke was interviewed for Poker News Daily.  Annie was the runner up of the second season of Celebrity Apprentice.  Some of the things Annie talked about are very interesting.

Ask to describe a typical day on the set of Celebrity Apprentice, Annie said:

…We’d usually leave for the task presentation around 6:30am or 7:00am. The tasks would go until about 11:00 at night. Then, you’d go back to the hotel. You’d go to sleep at 12:30am or 1:00am and then start over the next day. I’d say it was about three to five hours of sleep per night. On boardroom days, the task would be done at 2:00pm and the boardroom took place at 5:00pm. You’d be done by about 9:00pm or 9:30pm. Each task is two days long and they shoot three episodes per week.

It certainly sounds like the celebrities have to work very hard at each task.  I do believe that Clay Aiken is used to working hard.  He will do well!!

So…today this blog is about Clay and hard work.  Enjoy!!

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

~Unknown

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

~Steve Pavlina

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

~ Dale Carnegie

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

~Maria Bartiromo

Always give a hundred percent, and you’ll never have to second-guess yourself.

~Tommy John