Success is available to anyone who wants to pay the price for it;
it’s available to anyone who can afford its costly rate. Which begs the
questions: do you want it, and can you afford it?
The 9 Ingredients to Success:
1. Luck
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the
swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or
wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. – Ecclesiastes 9:11
…If you are born the son of Earl Woods, teacher and golf fanatic, you
have a much better chance at becoming Tiger Woods. This is indeed
self-evident; if you were born the child of actor Jerry and actress Anne
Stiller, your chances of becoming Ben Stiller (American actor) increase
significantly.
In some ways, we are all lucky: it may be where you were born, when
you were born, or a million other possibilities, but in some way, you
are lucky.
2. The Right Physical Attributes, or the Right Genetics
… but time and chance happen to them all. – Ecclesiastes 9:11
Once again, some things related to success are out of your hands. If
you’re 6 foot 6 inches tall, you have a much better chance of becoming
Michael Jordan. If you’re 6 foot 6 inches tall, you have virtually no
chance of becoming a gymnast. If you were born with vocal cords like
Celine Dion, you have a good chance of becoming a singer, if you were
born with vocal cords like mine, then, well, not so much.
