After a storm comes a calm.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
I can, therefore I am.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Who seeks shall find.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.