I realized that the most successful people in the world are those the society at one point regarded as foolish, stupid or what have you. This people go against the norms and dictates of the society to get to where they are presently.

People like Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Kirk Kerkorian, Amancio Ortega, David H. Murdock just to mention but a few, defied the norm to get to where they are presently. Some of us wish to be them, some out of stupidity have made themselves dropout using the above mentioned billionaires as excuse. What a shame.

Those men have something extraordinary, they had a dream, guts, zeal and passion. They had a dream, they damned all consequences just to follow their dreams. Some saw opportunities and without delay took it with both hands. Bryan Tracy would say "Leap and the net would appear".

My question is what is stopping you from grabbing that opportunity? Is the fear of failure? But how can you fail when you've not really started. You only live once, opportunities will come but what counts is our ability to take them without hesitation

I will leave you with a stanza in a poem by Longfellow:

Those heights by great men, won and kept,
Were not achieved by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were tolling upwards in the night.

In conclusion, I want you to know that all great ventures entail great risks, the willingness to go boldly where no one has ever gone before. the key to success is for you to set one great, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.

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Nice write up.