As 2016 is into full swing I have asked the question how can I take responsibility and make it a phenomenal year.

By making it a phenomenal year I want a year where desired results come quicker, where effort applied is not draining and has value attached, where my goals become reality and I progress from the realm of average to one of real success...where I get through my final 3 feet to reach my gold!

The real success I am referring to is success that brings with it...

For far too long I drifted through life thinking that i was doing all that i was capable of doing and that I was on the right track to having all that I wanted.

However I kept experiencing too many hiccups and adverse situations with seemingly one failure after another conspiring to keep me pegged down and sucking me dry of any semblance of good that I had.

I was really feeling like a victim and playing the part very well mind you!

This kept on happening...

Too many times, on our journey towards our goal,we experience hardships, difficulties and obstacles that seem to continue to knockus down and push us backwards...to such an extent that we feel we are going backwards.

You see that every challenge and obstacle we encounter is sent to prove us to ourselves! what I mean by this is that we will never get anything of value and substance without a corresponding effort. So when we start to progress along the path to our goal we need...

Significant change often comes after disaster or extreme adversity...at least that's how it worked out for me!

You see I thought that I had it all figured out from a young age, and was moving forward towards a substantial life. However I got to a stage of my life where the nagging thoughts and feeling of: knowing I can do more, be better, achieve more than I am and realize a greater potential than I was; started to become more and more persistent which lead me to put more effort...