Success?

What prevents your success?

              What prevents me from being  able to succeed in having success is "Me".  It's up to me to have a positive attitude, to have fortitude and the passion that drives me to push harder to obtain my goals.  There are obstacles that might interfere during this process like health, death in the family or financial issues could prevent my success.  How I choose to handle problems  that arise in my life is an important factor.  If I'm not careful, I could lose focus and it can delay or hinder me from moving forward.  The key is to not lose focus.  In terms of issues that come into play in life, I must have fortitude.  Fortitude is having the ability to endure.   It will give me the strength to continue.  

              Another key factor in connection with fortitude is having a positive attitude.  The very second I doubt myself would be devastating.  Having a positive attitude and surrounding myself with positive people will strengthen my ability to endure.  The last ingredient in achieving success is "passion".  Passion is the fire inside my soul.  Passion automatically paves the path of having a positive attitude that drives me to have fortitude.  It is all linked together  and I cannot succeed if one of the ingredients are missing.  

"If I trip and fall down, I would brush the dirt off and GET BACK UP"!  Failure is NOT an option.  This is how I visualize in obtaining success in anything I do in life.  In the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless was successful in leaving his old life of a young privileged man of materialistic excess.  "At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence (Krakauer, pp. 22)."  Once Chris graduated from college, he methodically planned his departure of his old life into the new life where his great Alaskan odyssey" begins.  He ventured alone on the road as a leathertramp.  After two long years he reached his final destination, Stampede Trail, Alaska.  

                It was on the Magic Bus #142 that led to his demise, Chris fulfilled his goals by traveling on foot with only the bare essentials he carried in his backpack.  His success was based on living off the land, hunting and gathering berries.  No phones, no T.V.'s or any electrical gadgets.  Chris was alone and "Into the Wild", his ultimate happiness.