This is being written for all the excuse makers in this world … and there sure are plenty of them. If you’re part of this majority, I can promise you that by the end of this article, you and I won’t be friends. But that’s fine as long as you still consider the point I am about to make and then go implement it in your life.
I’d rather shake you and give you some food for thought which can make a positive impact on your financial goals… rather than “be your buddyâ€.
Excuse makers are an absolutely disrespectful bunch!
And their disrespectful attitudes are a dime-a-dozen in the “make money†(ie: business) markets.
To jump right into it…
They’re often heard saying things such as “Someone like you can make money with [this] because you have a __________ (lot of customers, large subscriber list, high traffic website, popular blog, well known name and
credibility, years of experience…), but for someone like me [this] would never work.â€
The [this] is irrelevant. It could be a new marketing technique or a new affiliate program. It could be a network marketing opportunity or a new internet business model… doesn’t matter, the excuses are the same and idiotic in every case.
Let wishful thinkers be wishful thinkers. Everyone has the right to live their life (or exist, in most cases) as they please.
What needs to end, however, is how this same group can quickly blow off somebody’s years of dedicated work and effort in building an appropriate asset and just dismiss it as if they were born with it; As if somehow these assets just came to them.
Imagine being overweight… severely overweight.
Overweight to the point where your doctor has a serious talk with you about the strong possibility that you will not be around in 12 months if you don’t make a change.
So you do. You decide to make a change in a big way.
You drop old bad habits…
You pick up better ones.
You get educated… study up on how your body handles food, what weight loss techniques actually work and which ones are just hyped up fads. You learn about nutrition and healthy living.
You call in professionals and work with a fitness therapist, nutritionist and weight loss coach towards your now, clearly mapped out goals.
You invest time and money. And you struggle. Boy, do you struggle.
There are times when you feel like crying and just throwing in the towel because you’re frustrated at the slow (or what seems to be, no) progress.
Your friends tell you they support you, but you can tell that not one of them actually believes in you.
You sacrifice dinner parties because you don’t want to be tempted.
You sacrifice a two-week tropical holiday that you had your heart set on, because you now decided to invest that money into professional help (your coaches), education (books and resources) and a healthier diet (which does tend to a cost a little more than junk food).
And you work, work, work at it.
There are days when all you would rather do is stay in bed, give in to your cravings, and do what all of your “friends†and coworkers expect you to do: quit.
But you don’t… you work, work, work at it some more.
Over the course of the next 12-18 months, you have made remarkable gains.
And you STILL work at it, when others would give up after having achieved just a few milestones… you decide to get your body to the weight you know it should be at and get your health to its optimum levels.
So you work some more.
Then one day, you head down to the local gym to go through your daily workout. While there, you see another member who you’ve never met before but looks nearly identical in terms of weight and low-energy and poor health as you did 18+ months ago.
You can see that she is struggling. By now, you’ve practically had a Master’s Degree worth of book knowledge, thousands of dollars worth of professional coaching and, of course, 18+ months of hands-on experience thanks to your determination. So you decide to go over and offer a few pointers to this other member.
You say hello, quickly introduce yourself and then tell her that if she is “open to a couple of suggestions†here’s what you recommend… you tell her about the routine you recommend she starts with, and the books you recommend she reads and the milestone’s she should work towards.
You tell her all the things that you KNOW will help, as well as some tips (based on your experience) that she should try.
This person then looks back at you and says "Sure, if I was your size and in your condition, all of that might work… but for someone like me, that would never work."
You were just spat in the face.
continued in Part 2