Sort of like a rocket

One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

- Epictetus -

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I've done many things in my life many of which were difficult to do, required courage, persistence and effort, meant I was at risk physically or emotionally and things that didn't always, or often, come easily.

Along the way I've taken instruction, learned through practical means and through text books, lectures and by observation. I've made many errors, learned from them and made other errors in a continual cycle which has, thankfully, carried me forward in my professional and personal life and helped me become the man I am today. Not a perfect one (they don't exist), far far from perfect...but capable, confident in certain ways, reliable and dependable; in short, I'm spectacularly average.

Recently, a blip came on my radar and, because of its persistent beepyness, (figuratively speaking), I decided to take a closer look which, unsurprisingly considering its nature, caused me to want to drill down on it a little further.

This blip will/would take my professional career in new (and also familiar) directions and considering the nature of the industry is of great importance to the country considering recent and ongoing rumblings coming from other countries. The prospect of it is exciting at the same time as being daunting and it'll require my best; I don't mean close to it or somewhere in the vicinity, I mean my absolute best, and then some more besides.

I'll be challenged, pushed to my limits and beyond and...I'm confident I'm up for that challenge.

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I measure success in different ways and I assume you, or anyone other than me, will do the same in their own way. Success, to me, isn't an all encompassing thing and needs perspective.

What's success on the Hive blockchain for instance? For a person starting for very the first time today it's probably different to me being in my seventh year. It's subjective and situational.

I tend towards seeking continual improvement rather than the all-encompassing and generic thing called success and I set mini-goals along the way for something to aim at and as markers of performance. Simply seeking success seems a little indistinct to me, loose and undefined.

Seeking to attain a set goal within a pre-determined time by following a strategized plan with mini check-measure goals along the way is preferrable and has helped me accelerate (sort of like a rocket) towards attaining goals, gaining desired results and excelling, (continually improving), in the process. It's meant a better life, more designed and shaped into what it is I've decided it to be.

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I don't believe a person can rocket to success; sure, it may seem like they have attained overnight success at times but when one scratches the surface they'll undoubtedly find a lot of hard work, effort, study, training, trial and error and of course, failure as well.

They're all-important elements to success, including the failure, and without them one won't rocket to success, one will probably fizzle out like a spent sparkler. No folks, rocketing to success always takes time and effort, including here on the Hive blockchain and remember, what exactly defines success in the first place? A person must know that answer in respect of themselves before any rocketing can take place.

I look back on my successes and failures and know that I'm largely responsible for them. Yes, happenstance and the right-time-and-place or wrong-place-and-time paradigms has played their hands, but I've worked for it too, the success; I'm proud of that work, and despite some of my failures being absolute, and occasionally catastrophic, I've rebounded, excelled at being the person I needed to be, to stand the fuck up and go again. That's what it takes to move forward, like a rocket.

I don't know where that blip on my radar will take me, possibly nowhere, however I know that should I decide to chase it down I'll do so with the same vigour, effort and diligence at which I approach most things and that'll deliver a result.

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Now...who out there among you is a rocket man, or rocket girl?

Have you ever had to work hard to achieve outstanding results in your professional or personal life and if so how have you done it, what did you bring to the table, what worked and didn't and how did you handle the failures? For that matter, how have you handled the success? What does success even look like to you? Conversely, if you're a fizzled out flaccid sparkler, what has caused this, why have you chosen that path and do you feel there's a better way forward?

Feel free to comment below about anything above, I'll respond in kind.