Fly the friendly, low-fat skies of United!

April 23, 2009 | 53 Comments

Let’s say you have a designated parking spot in a lot that you pay for and some guy rents the space right next to you where he parks his Ford F350 dually taking up his space and half of yours. You can’t get your doors open. Your car gets dinged every time he opens his door. Your car no longer fits in the space you pay for because his hangs out in front, in back and on both sides. Would you cry foul? Sure you would. Would you eventually go to the parking lot owner with the argument that his car is so big that it takes up his space and yours too and that isn’t fair? Yes you would. And you would expect the parking lot owner to take action on your behalf. Your argument would be if the car he drives by choice takes up two spots then maybe he should pay for two spots! And you would be right!

United Airlines has decided if you hang over into the seats around you, then you have to buy a second seat. Fat people and their support groups around the country are screaming, “Unfair!” What’s unfair about it? If you take up two seats, you pay for two seats. Just like when you take up two parking places!

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Posted by Larry Winget | Filed Under Money & Personal Dev 

How do you eat an elephant?

April 15, 2009 | 14 Comments

One bite at a time! Old joke. Sage advice. And it applies to what most people are going through right now in terms of their lives, their health, their relationships and their money.

People are looking for miracles of a large scale to fix their problems. That simply isn’t how it works. There are no quick fixes – no miracles – no overnight successes – no silver bullets.

When you suddenly look in the mirror and see a big fat person looking back at you – it should hit you that you didn’t get fat overnight. But seeing yourself like that can create a sense of urgency in you that demands action. At that point, you want the old you back as quickly as you can find them so you start on a program to get back to the old self you used to be. Sadly, many people go to drastic measures and expect all the fat to drop off immediately. So they indulge in ridiculous diets that put their health at risk or have liposuction or gastric bypass surgery. Any sane person realizes that long-term weight loss doesn’t work that way. That is why most of those approaches don’t yield long term change. You didn’t gain the weight overnight and you aren’t going to lose it all overnight. It is going to take time. Planning. There will be ups and downs. There will be setbacks. You will be disappointed and disillusioned. You will want to give up. But you know if you just keep your head down and stay focused, eventually the weight will come off.

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Get Negative To Get Ahead

April 10, 2009 | 25 Comments

Get Negative to Get Ahead

You read it right: get negative! I am so tired of listening to the motivational idiots and the self-help bozos and all of metaphysical new-agers talk about the power of a positive attitude that I could puke! Just put on those rose-colored glasses, dust off the smiley-face button, plaster that big fake smile on your face and get after it and you will be happy, healthy and successful. Really? How’s that worked for you so far?

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve!” Thank you Napoleon Hill. What if the mind can’t conceive anything and you believe you are an idiot? What are you going to achieve then?

I saw so many people on facebook right after January 1, talking about their resolutions and saying, “If I can believe it, I can achieve it!” Which is another favorite line of the positively handicapped and in my opinion, the positively disillusioned!

Here is the way to make real positive change in your life: GET NEGATIVE! Yep, get negative. Take a realistic look at your life. Slip off the rose-colored glasses and instead use a magnifying glass. Look closely at your results. Recognize and own up to the fact that it was your actions that produced those results. If your results are bad, then your actions were bad. If your results really sucked, then the actions that created those results really sucked. At that point, get negative. Go through every stupid thing you have done. Identify each stupid thought, every stupid action, and feel horrible about every asinine result. Cry about it – tie some emotion to your stupidity! Get so negative about how stupid you have been that you make yourself sick!

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Posted by Larry Winget | Filed Under Money & Personal Dev