Pac Man, whats wrong with charity? Perhaps you can tell me what this articles writer is trying to acheive? If you want success, you should work for it. I personally think its great if you think that another person praying for your success is going to make you successful. I will profess that it will not. No tzaddik is going to make you more successful until HASHEM determines it is success you earn and deserve. Though perhaps having more people clamoring to heaven for your own success will get attention, I will suggest that perhaps there is more in your life to FIX that you CAN FIX that might be the real reason you are not finding the success you think you need. But that said, only you can know your degree of repentance, your merit and your influence of your own yetzer hara and its own “success” in your judgement and thinking. I will assure you that you can do no wrong by giving charity and that really is orthodox even if you dont want to admit that you can give to a charity and have a positive outcome for yourself as well. You can and will.
So fix your problems, master your yetzer hara’s influence and you will truly find good success.