@lillycoyote I disagree. Most people understand what it takes to be healthy and maintain their weight. Just knowing it doesn’t mean they will act on this knowledge. All people want to be healthy… its impulse is toward more and fuller life. So why do so many people engage in unhealthy habits? If everyone knows how to be healthy then why isn’t everyone? They want the unhealthful act more than the health it forsakes.
So why isn’t everyone successful? Easy… people are generally lazy, are unwilling to change themselves, unwilling to cease whining, making excuses or they think they are willing when they only offer half-hearted measures, then they wonder why they failed and blame their circumstances.
So no, I don’t think, assuming there was a “formula” or that hard work was it, that everyone would be successful by any stretch of the imagination. The real question is why not.
I liked @Nullo ‘s answer… hard work in the right direction.
Also wasn’t is Jefferson who once said “I find the harder I work the more luck I have” ?