



You can choose among different paths, depending on your personality, skills, temperament, and what you really enjoy. The good news is there is no single best way. Millions of people do very well financially working for someone else or by specializing or both. Others become successful in business or as entrepreneurs by mastering a wide variety of skills. Some do several things. They start their own businesses and then specialize at becoming very good performing a service or developing a product that people really want and are willing to pay for.
Clarity is probably 95 percent of success. The greater clarity you have about who you are and what you want, the easier it is for you to succeed under almost any condition or circumstances.
Thomas Carlyle wrote, “The man with no goals makes little progress on the smoothest road, whereas the man with clear goals makes progress on even the roughest road.”
When you take the time to stop and think about what you really want and how to get it, you can save yourself years of hard work going back and forth making little progress. Forget about the mistakes of the past and focus on the future. There is a Turkish proverb that says, “No matter how long you have gone down the wrong road, turn back.”