Consider the Ant, O thou sluggard.
"If you want a thing bad enough
Go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it."- Les Brown.
If you really want something, you have got to go all out for it and do whatever you can to get it. There is no shortcut to success and definitely no break between the hustle to succeed.
Success stories are always woven around a mystery that tells us about how through thick and thin and against overwhelming odds, the individual broke forth.
You cannot sleep or be found sleeping when you should be working.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.- Proverbs 6:6-8.
Winning takes much more than skills, talks or knowledge. It takes more of consistent tenacity of courage to turn out excellently.
Skills and knowledge don't make for wealth; the smart application of the skills and knowledge of a thing coupled with a determination to see the color you want is what holds the day.
If you'll simply go after that thing that you want with all your capacity, strength, sagacity, faith, hope and confidence with a stern pertinacity, you should come out at the top a winner.