Attitude doesn’t matter……

October 30, 2007 | 10 Comments

Motivational gurus have made trillions of dollars telling us that having a positive attitude is the key to success. Wrong! You can be positive all you want and still be positively wrong, positively lazy and positively stupid. I don’t always have a great attitude. In fact, many times I have a really crappy attitude. That makes me a real human being. Things go wrong and affect my attitude. Luckily, I am not paid to be positive. You aren’t paid for your great attitude either. You are paid to do your job. I’ll take Mr. Crappy Attitude who gets the work done, and you can have Mr. Positive who believes that there are no problems, only opportunities. I’ll go with the guy who knows a problem when he sees it, gets ticked off by it and solves the problem!

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3 Reasons People Aren’t Successful

October 21, 2007 | 5 Comments

Want to know why most people are not living lives of success, happiness and abundance? There are only three reasons: They are stupid. They are lazy. They don’t give a damn.

I dare you to come up with a reason other than those. Let me explain. Few people are actually stupid. Everyone knows enough to be successful at something. So it is rare that someone is really too dumb to be successful. The problem is not that we don’t know, the problem is that we don’t do what we already know . . . which means we are lazy. How sad to know how to be successful and be too lazy to do it. It must mean you don’t care enough to be successful - in other words, you don’t really give a damn! How do you explain that to your family? How can you look yourself in the eye? Was that rerun of Seinfeld really all that important? Could you really afford to take that nap? Don’t you care enough to do all you can?

Face it. You could do more. Stop telling yourself how busy you are. Stop the excuses. Just admit to yourself that you could do more than you are doing. You could turn off the TV, come in a little earlier, stay a little later, and work a little harder. The issue is not could you but will you?

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Success - Hard Work - Laziness

October 5, 2007 | 7 Comments

What does it take to be successful? As a guy who speaks to over a hundred thousand people per year about success, I get asked this question a lot. Rarely are the people pleased with my answer: Work. Yep, that’s it. Work. It’s not attitude or passion or loving what you do. Those things help, but they aren’t the key. It’s good old-fashioned work. How do you know you are working? When you are breaking a sweat, either mentally or physically.

Now don’t automatically think that working hard will make you successful. It won’t. I know lots of people who work very hard, much harder than I do, and don’t really find any financial success. On the other hand, I don’t know of anyone who has experienced real financial success who hasn’t worked hard to achieve it. And don’t offer me lottery winners or people who have inherited their money – they don’t count. I’m talking about regular people like you and me. For us, it takes work.

“But Larry, I go to work every day and work hard!” I doubt it. Most studies say that workers waste at least two hours a day goofing off. They admit to doing less than their best on the job and less than their best for the customer. Work is just that place where you dress slightly better than you do at home. And those people you work with – they aren’t co-workers, they are only co-goers.

We have become a nation of spectators. It’s easier to watch Friends on TV than it is to be a friend in real life. It’s easier to watch people lose weight on TV than it is to get off our huge butts and lose it ourselves. It’s certainly easier to watch people paint a room or clean out their closets than to do it ourselves. And it’s even easier to watch someone else correct their out-of -control children that to discipline our own. I find this sad.

Most people settle for much less than they have to because they are just too lazy to work for what they really want. They do a half-assed job when they are on the job and then put little effort into living their dream when they go home. Life, happiness, prosperity and success all take effort. If it feels easy, you are going the wrong direction. Remember: It’s called work for a reason.

Posted by Larry Winget | Filed Under Money & Personal Dev