"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." -- E.M. Gray
To be successful, you must first and foremost know what you're called to do... your purpose. In order to know your purpose, you must know who called you. God has provided clear priorities and principles that govern the world and the situations into which He has placed you, including your: gender, parent, geography, socio-economic status, time in history, etc...
If you don't know your purpose, you don't have the strength to order your affections. They will organize themselves on the fly according to your impulses. Meanwhile, your values or standards, if you have them, will be powerless to propose any counter argument.
Failures fail because they don't make a habit of doing things they don't feel like doing. Their day is determined by their desire at that moment rather than their desire overall either because they have failed to define a clear. over-arching desire; or because in the moment, their immediate desires take precedent over their long-term desires.
Success is obtained by subordinating what you want at the moment to what you want overall. Success is saying, "No" to your immediate likes and dislikes when they interfere with your values.
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