INTRODUCTION

This book is about success and what it really takes to earn it. It's time someone told it to you straight: you've been bamboozled for too long.

There is no magic bullet, secret formula, or quick fix to success. You don't make $200,000 a year by spending two hours a day on the internet, lose thirty pounds in a week with a "Hollywood diet," rub twenty years off your face with a cream, fix your love life with a pill, or find lasting success with a get-rich-quick scheme. It would be great if you could buy your success, fame, self-esteem, good relationships, health, and well- being in a nicely clam-shelled package at the local Walmart, but that's not how it works.