Desire alone is not sufficient but commensurate effort is also needed in order to succeed. If you carefully observe successful people, there is hard work and sustained effort behind their success. Everyone gets opportunities in life – big or small. If you let go, that opportunity will not come back. To enhance one’s status or to make a mark, a firm determination, burning desire to achieve, a clear goal, an appropriate attitude and a good planning together with adequate effort are required. A solid plan with necessary minor changes as you progress will help you to achieve the goal. Failure is for want of understanding and due to deficiencies in planning. Learning from failures, maintaining good human relationships, observing humility will make victory easier. For a successful person, retaining what he has achieved is equally important. One should gain in wisdom along with success as otherwise with complacency and overconfidence, he is likely to miss what he has achieved with great effort. Developing a well rounded personality will go a long way in facing the life with enthusiasm and confidence. There are many little things that can make a real big difference in one’s progress. An attempt has been made to cover some of them here.