No Excuses

Fundamentally my success in life depends on adhering to the maxim, "no excuses." Yes, all people and most circumstances are outside of my control. So many factors and dynamics influencing and impacting each contour in the path I tread. Nevertheless, however complicated my next step may be, it is I who must take it.
"I wish I could have taken this other route that someone else took, or made such and such a choice that was available last year, or faced fewer obstacles or had less clowns working around me or ogres above me." Wishful thinking. Uncontestably and unverifiably true on the one hand, but in simple denial of the facts and the realities of the choices not being made on the other.
When it comes right down to it, I have no excuses. I am responsible for what I can do and must do it, whether easy or difficult, straightforward or complicated, delightful or painful, energizing or draining. No excuses.