"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces". Wilma Rudolph, American runner who, after contracting polio as a child, had to walk with orthopaedic support until she was 12, and then went on to win three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics (1940–1994) We all crave success now – we all want to win now. But success now is difficult to come by if we have not prepared properly to succeed, despite