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GETTING AHEAD OF THE GAME 10/31/16

The chances to really stand out are all around us, yet they always seem to slip away from our control.

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GETTING AHEAD OF THE GAME 10/31/16
Sean McGill

How does someone get ahead of the game? Do you go to the best school? Learn a new trick? Talk with people who are not otherwise uneducated? If you wish to get ahead of the challenges that face you later on, or the competitors that have similar intentions you must be willing to make some sacrifices. Of course, how do you hope to get better without something in exchange? Depending on whatever the competition may vary it comes down to what you alone are capable of.

Some of us are willing to spend restless nights trying to enhance our abilities, take on direction from people who already made it to the top, or maybe even savagely sabotage others to achieve what is rightfully ours. All rather lacking real results at times. Mostly due to the fact that these require you to compensate something much more significant. This doesn't have to be the case, however. It is the limits that you put on yourself that ultimately upheld you from gaining ground because somewhere in your reasoning you felt as though (at one time or another) that you are not capable of succeeding. While, this may seem to be a practical way of assessing of what is possible. It is no way or fashion the best tactic to establishing yourself as a prominent individual in the competition you are being faced with.

Failure is inevitable. So is the chance of success. Instead of reasoning with this ultimate resolution of what may happen, we lower our standards rather poorly to more meager means of getting where we want to be. It is not only hurting our chances of possibly living our dreams but in its course damages the very focus we put ourselves towards. Reason being is that we much rather cater towards other redundant matters that are strangely enough more pleasing to tend because it separates us from what is our current reality of the situation. Oddly enough this becomes more and more of a constant variable as we continue to live out our lives. This issue wanders in such things as games, movies, social media platforms, gossip, sports, etc. We love all of it because of the pleasure that comes out of it giving a unique stimulate, that could not be achievable by giving something else a chance profoundly due to the probability of success. It must be a mission to challenge yourself in your field of expertise every day no matter what the cost may be. We have no limits.

No matter what the odds may look like, the end goal is to just take the chance and learn from it. This not only adds up in your favor but greatly enhances your character with how people view you in comparison to whoever may wish to oppose you.

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