Every goal takes time to achieve. The time spent seeking a career and financial success is not spent on your relationships and your health. Ask me how I know.
It's not even career and financial success, it's about competence. There are billions of activities in the realm of possible activities pursued by a person and each one takes time to get to the top percentile performace.
People think money is some magic trick card that lets you skip the process and compress time. In reality the closest thing that it does is bringing you to the front row to watch the top performers who have dedicated time to their craft do their thing.
Key word being watching. Money can buy you the most expensive suite at the Super Bowl, but it won't get the ball in your hands with 2:00 on the clock needing a TD to win it. That right belongs to the person who spent years and dedicated infinite hours to the pursuit of excellence in the realm of throwing a football to moving targets.
How do you know?
In this case, It happened to me and I saw the same happen to several coworkers as well.