Your success at work will largely depend on yourself – how well you know yourself and how you take advantage of your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.
While timing, luck and upper management will always play a part, it is you who ultimately is in control and thus can lead to your most rewarding success or be the root cause of your greatest failures. It should feel encouraging that you are in control instead of others, but in order to have the most opportunity for success, it is critical for you to have a positive mindset from the beginning and to maintain it even when it is seems impossible.
