Four steps to succeed

I heard someone said that there are four steps to succeed: Stand the loneliness,  withstand the temptation, understand how to give up and learn to choose. I was impressed by these four steps. Everyone's life is different, we cannot always stay together, someone afraid loneliness, so they decrease their moving speed or change their direction to stay with others.  Time is precious for everyone, cause it's limited. how to save our time?  We cannot always care about others, we need to find our own way rather than follow others. We should very clear about what what we really need, what is our dream. If we are clear about this, no temptation will seize us. We also will know how to choose, what we can give up, thus our lives won't be too stressed.