You have to be willing to work hard and stay focused on your goals.
The challenge is to make the ordinary extraordinary.
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
"The best stories are those that refuse to be finished."