John Chow’s blog today was great timing. I need encouragement sometimes, I’m pretty cocky about my abilities on any given day, and about my status in life, and my take on the world. I’m one of those people who doesn’t really care what you think of me.
Really.
Everyone in the world thinks they had it hard growing up, those who don’t, great, but most of us that saw any strife at all think we had it pretty rough. I don’t think that how we are raised or how we saw people being treated in our past has anything to do with our future. So there’s no reason to let that bring you down to a level where you can’t accomplish things in life.

I know I have what it takes to be successful. I just have to beat the procrastination bug. And I really think that inside if we have the right motivation, we can all be successful in our own right.

I have a hard time getting motivated sometimes just like everyone else, I would rather watch a Mavericks game than work - like Sunday. I didn’t accomplish much on the site Sunday, there was a mid-day game, anyone who knows me knows that the world stops when a Maverick game is on. I’m (not) working on that. :) This helps. :)

But like John Chow’s blog today, I feel that success is personality driven, I believe you need drive and the willingness to learn everything you need to know and you seriously need to be confident. If you have no skill, or ability, soon enough you’ll know, but if you do, you gotta back it up with your attitude. Attitude is everything. We all have what it takes, we just don’t always recognize it. I’ve been a survivor for a long time, and it’s important to note, being a survivor doesn’t have to mean life is harder for you than everyone else and you walk a tougher road, it just means that you can survive what’s put before you, because you WANT to. It’s also important to note here that everyone has a choice, you’ve chosen to read this blog. You choose to go to that job everyday and do that work and listen to those people talk around you, to you. Whether you enjoy it or not, it’s a choice. In all walks of life, we find determination and tenacity brings us to the goals we so desire to see achieved.

In the end we all choose our paths, and we either embrace new things and go with the new, even be part of it or we stay in our chosen time period and ignore the possibilities.
But the question remains the same..what do you want out of this life?