" I never let school interfere with my education"
- Mark Twain

• As a self-educated individual, be persistent in your quest to, by your own individual standards, be successful.
  
  
• Stay self-motivated. Maintain relentless determination. Keep consistent in your ambition. Live by the "figure it out" principal and do just that.
  
  
• Pursue practical, initial experience in your field of interest, whether it be in the form of an internship or a volunteer opportunity.
  
  
• Adopt mentors, set goals, mentally prepare your life agenda, tune in to your intellectual senses and take risks.
  
  
• Read, read, read.
  
  
• Seek out and attend speaking engagements by individuals who have become successful in the same trade or field you desire to break into.
  
  
• Realize that stepping into the networking circuit can prove to be a huge payoff. Do not be afraid to interface with the industry's elite. By doing so, you may eventually become one. (As said by Woody Allen, "Eighty percent of success is
  showing up").
  
  
• The choice to begin building a successful career starts when you choose to uproot, and apply, your talents and abilities to the fullest, not in part. (In
  the words of Abraham Lincoln, "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important that any one thing").