One's worth in his own eyes is the only thing that can influence what he gets. Let us call this worth as self worth.
We all think superfecially, we are worthy of everything. But, at lower levels of one's self, the self worth has limits. As guilts accumulate within oneself, gradually, his worth in his own eyes starts deteriorating in a lower level of subconsciousness.
It is also possible that, one accumulates prospor much more than self worth. But then, either he won't be able to enjoy what he got, or his worth deteriorates drastically after enjyoing it.
Why are so many people not able to utilize the good opportunities ahead of them, and why some others do..? People don't utilize a good opportunity because, they dont feel that they are worth of its outcome.
Why all rich men are not happy? This is because, while they think that they are worth of richness, they mayn't feel they are worth of happiness. Thier self worth for happiness may deteriorate, when they accumulate a sense of sin during the accumulation of richness.
So, how to get the worth? With no bar to religion and beliefs what gives a worth to any person, is his view on how much he has contributed to evolution. More reasons he has for thinking that he has contrbuted to evolution, more he deservers.
With culture and religion in mind, more and more so called 'sin's one does, his worth deteriorates. 'What is Sin' only depends on belief. An adivasi thinks that, killing a cobra is OK if it is done for self-defense, there is no sin accumulation. He will still consider him to be of same worth after killing a cobra. Consider a situation when the same action is performed by a hindu, who believes that killing cobra for any reason is a sin. After killing the cobra, he starts thinking that he has sinned. Hence self worth decreases. Beliefs are bound to the nervous system. Something worth of quoting here is 'anyone can forgive your sin, but not your nervous system'.
So, increasing worth in our own eyes should be the only motto of life, the rest will follow according to the accumulated self worth.