What is really impact­ing your pur­suit of the results you want to achieve? If there is some­thing hold­ing you back in your life and cho­sen career, what can you do about it?

Cer­tainly the econ­omy — domes­tic and global — has impacted most of us, and will con­tinue to have a neg­a­tive impact for at least a few more years. But it is too easy to blame out­side influ­ences and avoid tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for what we need to do in order to reach our goals.

There are exter­nal fac­tors — includ­ing biases, prej­u­dices, reg­u­la­tory bar­ri­ers, and so on — that are out of our imme­di­ate con­trol. Yet there are things we can do that will improve our sit­u­a­tion if we per­sis­tently stay the course.

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