Some thoughts

No road is without bumps and no matter which road you have decided to take. Lots of detours and unexpected events are expected in the journey. Some people may travel in the same direction as you but they move so fast that you simply cannot catch up with them. However, you must know exactly where your final destination is and make every step confidently. A lack of intellectual ability should not be used as the excuse for most of the problems that we are facing, a lack of effort perhaps a better explanation why we cannot achieve what we want in life but stagnate at a middling level of competence after so many years of hard works. Or perhaps the approaches that you have been using so far are not effective even though you are a supermotivated person who works to exhaustion everyday doing what you really want to do.

I am pondering a lot on how to keep myself motivated and continue pursuing my career objective in spite of everything that has happened in a year's time. I must admit that it is not easy to be confident when there are thoughts deep inside your mind telling you that what you are doing now are not practicable and changes are of palpable urgency. Without many people to talk to and without access to the helpful resources that may help you to move forward, very likely you may choose the easiest way out and save yourself from all the challenges that can make a difference on your current situation. After one or two times of taking the easiest way out, it is very likely that it becomes a vicious cycle that you simply cannot pull yourself out and instead, full of all kinds of negative thinking that hinder you for any possible changes.

To stay positive and to stay on track towards the direction that I set, I should try my best to challenge myself every day. Be it rain or shine, whether or not there is support or encouragement from others, my attitude and what I do play the biggest part in changing the current situation. If I keep trying to search ways to change my situation for better, I stand a higher chance of finding them. If I stop and pessimistically think that they cannot be found then possibly nothing would happen and everything remains the same. A person’s mind set is important, a fixed mind set doesn’t help in making the existing situation any better and you are  more likely to interpret these setbacks as evidence that, after all, you don’t have “the right stuff”— you’re not good enough. By blaming on others, you can get yourself off the hook, stay contented with the status-quo without forcing yourself hard enough to make a change. On the contrary, a growth mind set always encourage one to look at everything with positivity and go all out to work and learn when an opportunity is given with the thinking that if you try hard enough and if you believe you can do it, you can achieve what you want.

**With ideas and lots of quotes from Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit: The power of passion and perseverance.

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