I believe that the main reason people are not successful is because they do not believe they can be. Perhaps while they were growing up they witnessed parents who struggled to make ends meet, and began to view life as difficult. As a consequence, they came to believe that success was for “other people”.
Nothing could be further from the truth! I’m not about to say something foolish and condescending like, “everyone has the same opportunities”, because obviously they don’t, and it would be obtuse of me to suggest that someone like Paris Hilton isn’t going to have a far easier time of it than the average person. But what I will say is that none of that matters. If you truly desire to be more than you are now, you can be. You just need to want it and be willing to do what it takes to get there.
Too many people are resigned to their fate. If their parents had no money and worked for minimum wage all their life, they tend to follow the same path. They might dream about going to university and becoming something more, but their dreams remain dreams because they don’t know how to translate them into action. Without a belief that something is possible, there is no way to make it so.