Today
our motivational quote is dedicated to William Post iii –
Sofer,
I have covered motivational stories of various personalities who fought with
the hard times and finally became successful in their life. But today I will
tell you a different kind of story which will prove that in terms of making it
big we cannot depend on luck entirely. Hard work and perseverance are the main
keys to success. Of course, luck will play a crucial factor for many cases; but
luck without hard work will eventually lead to failure. A similar kind of
incident happened with William Post iii. Today William's story will be our
focus of discussion.
The backstory of William Post -
William
Post iii was born on 5th April 1939 in Pennsylvania USA. Early in his life, he
lost his mother, because of which he had to spend most of his childhood in an
orphanage. In his entire youth, he tried several occupations such as Cook,
Track driver, etc. but did not find any satisfaction in them. Also, these jobs
were not giving him enough earnings to spend a decent life.
Story of Lottery winning -
Being
depressed with his life, William thought that there is only one way to change
his life was to win a big lottery. So he sold his ring to his landlady and
bought 40 lottery tickets. This time luck favored his decision and he won a
whopping $16.2 million.
Once
he won such a huge amount of money, William thought that now he can do all the
things he deemed all his life. To leave a peaceful life he bought a huge
mansion purchased a wine license, a beautiful restaurant; even bought an
airplane. But very soon William ran out of his luck, all of a sudden he found
out that his brother planned to eliminate him to inherit all of his wealth.
Also, his landlady took William took him to the court stating that William
promised her a share of his winning. William lost this case in the court and as
per the judgment had to pay one-third of his winning. But, William denied
paying anything to the lady, so the court again decided to freeze all of
his winnings. He soon sold all of his assets and filed for bankruptcy.
This
was not the end of William's misfortune, apart from losing all of his money,
William had to go to jail as it was found that he fired gunshots towards one of
his lenders. After some time, William got released from jail and again started
his life from the scratch. William died in the year 2006.
Conclusion -
Only
if William could have planned it better, he would not have suffered so much at
the end of the days. In his case luck gave him a huge favor but without any
experience and proper planning, he was not able to capitalize on it. Once he
won such a huge amount instead of buying unnecessary luxurious things if he
could have found out ways to invest some portion of it he could have lived the
life he dreamed all of his life.
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