The best way to succeed is to begin with a reasonably realistic goal and attain it, rather than aiming at something so far beyond your reach that you are bound to fail.

It's also important to make a habit of succeeding, and the easiest way to start is to succeed at something, however small, everyday, gradually increasing the level of your ambitions and achievements like a runner in training, who begins with short distances and works up to Olympic levels.

Try to think of success as a journey, an adventure, not a specific destination.

Your goals may change during the course of that journey, and your original ambitions may be superseded by different, larger ones.

Success will certainly bring you the material things you want and a good healthy appetite for the comforts and luxuries of life is an excellent goad to success, but basically you'll know you have reached your goal when you have gone that one step further, in wealth, fame or achievement than you ever dreamed was possible.

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