No matter what you want to achieve, understanding the laws that God put in place and acting accordingly will help you reach your goals.  Owing to individual natural tendencies, different people will live out their lives in different ways.  Some will aspire to very little, only being motivated by the desire for physical pleasure.  Others will want material success and worldly power.  Still others will have a philosophical or religious inclination and will seek God for the reward they get in this life and the next.   Then there are the rare few who seek God for the purpose of realizing their own true soul nature.  Regardless of the goal, success is only achieved in this world by applying the proper actions to reach that goal.  Wishing and praying for it without acting will get you nothing.