There is always hope, where there is a stout heart and a willingness to strive, learn, teach and share.

First step: Understanding people!

Observe things around you. Analyse people from all walks of life, and how people re-act to situations.

Second step: Learning from the best:

If you are aware of people’s behaviour, you will be able to see how the successful do things. And what held the poor back from being successful too.

If you’ve been a sports person, who’ll know how important working as a team and collaboration is.
What is to be a coach and managing people and the philosophy of interaction between people!
It teaches you how to encourage people and build bridges between people and various departments or groups.

If you’ve haven’t had any proper education, this shouldn’t stop you from seeking knowledge.

Keep note books and fill them up with things you have learnt. Each note book: to cover one theme topic. This becomes your own personal library and can be used for revision!
Remember research includes testing and trying out things for yourself. In the process you learn new skills and techniques.
If you're 'spoon-fed' info, you don’t learn so much. We learn a lot more from experiencing something for ourselves.

I once heard of someone who didn’t have much money, but still took music lessons (once a week). This is how he afforded to pay for his music lessons:

He only had enough money for his first lesson.
Then after each lesson he went home and taught their neighbour’s children (for the other four days of the week).
He would teach what he had just learnt. He charged each child a small fee. When adding up their fees together, he had enough for his own next lesson and a little over for his food and boarding.
But while teaching the others, he got practice in. It was like doing revision on his lessons. If there was a problem, he could go back to his expensive teacher and ask advice.
Having experienced what is like to teach, he could appreciate what his teacher had to handle. That made him value his teacher more and what he was learning.
Conclusion: He was striving and working hard to earn his living and become successful.

Taking up challenges and having to make changes in our lives teaches us how to cope, take risks, and overcome fear.

The more experiences you have to undergo, the stronger you are, and learn how to handle things no matter what you have to face.
Your courage and how you handled your experiences inspires others. And naturally you stand out as a leader, because you were willing to tuck in and do what was necessary, even against great odds.

Having learnt so much, it’s your obligation now to share what you have learnt.

It’s the law of the universe! The more you give, the more that comes back to you.

It’s like when you water the garden, somehow you always get wet too!!