If you come from a family of five male children and your youngest brother died of leukemia when you were just twelve years old, another killed himself in a drunk driving accident after drinking two bottles of vodka, a third also died from alcohol abuse and you have not seen or heard from your only surviving brother for years then I guess you would think yourself entitled to make excuses for not making anything of your life .

Sorry to rain on your parade but - NO, YOU DON’T; because that is the short version of Ed Mercer’s childhood. In ‘Mr Costa Rica’s’ own words “We all have the ability to become successful regardless of the circumstances in our life. I have always had my eyes wide open and I have come to realize the reasons for success or failure. I have never felt sorry for myself and I have never allowed tragedy to damper my outlook on life.”

Life deals everyone bad cards at some stage, and the measure of the individual is how they meet them. You can wallow in self-pity, make excuses for being a failure and blame everyone else but yourself - OR - you can meet life head on, treat every event as a lesson and decide to succeed in everything you do – big or small. Life is for living – so don’t put yourself in the grave until God decides it’s time.

If you want to know how Ed took a bad start and turned it into 23,000 acres of prime Costa Rica real estate, a place in the environmentalist’s Hall of Fame, and not a little hard cash, he is offering to mentor 100 people to become millionaires in less than 18 months – listen to his offer at http://edmercersmillionaires.com and decide if you have what it takes to be the next Mr Billionaire?

Peter Clarke