Once you fully understand that 'success' just comes down to cause and effect, and that luck has nothing to do with it. Once you fully 'get' this and begin taking action as if this were a certainty no different from gravity, nothing will stop you.
Gifts to self:
•permission to fail
•commitment to give 10x effort
•authority to think independently
•right to make decisions considering self FIRST (not exclusively!)
•right to fire people from your life
•obligation to know what you want and pursue it unapologetically