"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
-- Joseph Joubert

successful in your math classes.  I’m talking about being successful IN

EVERYTHING! 

Do you want to be successful?

          You may think that this is a silly question.  No one daydreams about

being unsuccessful.  Let’s see…  I’m hoping to barely get by, live pay check to

pay check, have a job I don’t like and be, generally, unhappy.  Hey, maybe

I can even be homeless or addicted to something! 

           No way!  No one really thinks that.  No one dreams of mediocrity,

unhappiness or a lack of fulfillment and contentment.  But, it happens to

people anyway…  In fact, it happens all the time…  It’s happened to people

I know.

This may be the most important thing I say in the whole book… 

Having success is a decision
we can make for ourselves.

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