I’m 21 and I had to grow up at accelerated rates because of multiple circumstances in my life. One of them was divorce of my parents, my mother had no money and my father didn’t seem to care about me and my brother. And to make it clear “no money” means that we didn’t have enough even for food.

Now, I’m not saying these things so you can feel pity for me. I’m telling you because somehow I managed to survive, I found a Way.

Today I make 2000 euros a month, I know it’s not a fortune but at least I have a budget that is 4 times more than average budget in Greece and this amount grows every minute even as I write this article. By way my father make less money than that.

How did I manage to make it while I didn’t have a quarter of a penny in my pocket? ATTITUDE is answer, I never ever stopped learning about anything that could be learned and that made me look like Guru in my circle of influence. Even with no money I had most beautiful girls and highest grades of all. When someone had a problem I was one who solved it.

The only reason some people enjoy success while others fail is because those who succeed persist in holding vision of what they want.

They succeed, in first place, by creating a vision.

Then they persist in that vision. As it sinks deeper into their minds, it becomes a driving obsession. It becomes their most cherished value. And they spend all their time in trying to materialize that value. This drives them to training themselves to achieve their goal.

Most people believe that success is a result of a realized talent. Talent is what people see. They see a bewildering array of skills and conclude—incorrectly—that talent made person brilliant. Others attribute it to motivation. Again, this is effect, not cause that arises from a vision.

I contend that talent is cultivated from vision, and that as vision deepens, as action toward learning and implementation proceeds, skills develop and accumulate. The end result of numerous small skills is a prowess or flair for doing something that we call talent. Personal development happens incrementally, in small quotas, in chunks.

How did Albert Einstein become greatest thinker world has ever known? What is wisdom we can gather from looking at his success story? How did a patent office clerk achieve success as a celebrity? The simple answer is that he was a genius. He had more brain cells. He had more ability to think.

Yet a history of young Albert Einstein showed that he was not a brilliant student. In fact, his teacher once sent a note to his parents suggesting that he was wasting time attending school.