A quote from Mary Tyler Moore in Andy Andrews’ Storms of Perfection Volume II: “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” We don’t enjoy enduring difficulties, but it is what we learn during those times that builds the strength and endurance within us to face the future boldly and achieve the goals ahead. I was raised to believe that anything worth having is worth working for. If everything comes to us “on a silver platter,” we don’t appreciate it like we do the things we work for.

Harvey Mackay is an author and businessman featured in Storms of Perfection Volume II. He states in his letter to Andy Andrews, “I have learned that in order to increase the number of my successes, I have had to accept an increase in the number of my failures. I think any success worth having is like a 100 rung ladder. There’s no use trying to jump on in the middle; take it as a bottom to top proposition, one step at a time. Yes, to the faint of heart each of the first ninety-nine of those steps represents a failure of sorts. But to those with the determination to stay the course, success is inevitable.”