If you want to be wealthy and happy the rest of your life, just learn this lesson well. Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. I have found in my experience that income does not far exceed personal development. Now sometimes income takes a lucky jump, but sure enough unless you grow out where you are. Life has strange ways. If somebody hands you a million dollars, bet you become a millionaire quickly! So you get to keep the money, otherwise sure enough, it'll disappear. Somebody once said if you took all the money in the world, divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets. Success is something you attract, not something you persue. So instead of going after it, you work on yourself personal development. Because true happiness is not contained in what you get. Happiness is contained in what you become.