It's the 'doing-ness', my friend. People like to 'have' but not to 'do'!
Because all the 'everyone' who does NOT do it (whatever activity that might be) simply only want the results of the particular activity but not the effort required to get the results.
Thus no engagement, only inertia.
THUS MOST PEOPLE DO NOTHING TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES.
Those are the people who want to be on the top of the mountain but are not willing to learn how to climb. They are not willing to spend money and time on learning how to climb and they are not willing to spend time and money to practice. They also are not willing to sweat while climbing. Most of all, they are not willing to get a scratch on their baby skin.
Also most want only the money or the things which the money buys - thus they often do not even like what they are producing and only have their full attention on whether they are getting the most money out from their activities.
A farmer who does not like corn and does not think that corn should or could be eaten and who does not think that eating or having corn is helping someone will simply find all the farming activities very disgusting. He probably would not find it worth to engage in any activities at all.
Can you see what I am trying to say?
When ALL you are interested in is the rewards of an activity and not the benefit to the recipients of the product or products then you would have pretty much failed before you start.
Is there money in this or that job, business, etc is the wrong question to ask!
Millionaires and failures alike come from all jobs and businesses.
Another reason why people never do the things which work well for some, is that they listen to all the possible pitfalls told to them usually (actually all the time) from people who have never done it!
I remembered when I bought my very first house in Denver, Colorado after having been 2 years in the country, and had only lived in Denver for 3 months and had NO credit etc etc.
After closing on the house but before moving in. I had people telling me that I could not have possibly bought the house due to the above reasons and then some.
They told me that probably I did not understand the contract and only had leased or rented it. Denial at its best, I guess!
A similar situation occurred, after I bought my first rental property after attending a $20 one-day real estate seminar.
After I had closed on the property with a purchase price of $54,000 and only $700 down ( VA repossessed), I was told by friends and neighbors of the new house that the fix-up will cost $30,000 and that the property then would probably worth $70,000, thus I would be losing minimally $14,000. It scared the hell out of me because it was my very last money that I had invested and in fact I had to get all my fix-up supplies such as paint and brushes and bathroom fixtures from Sears where they cost up to TWO TIMES more than a discount paint store! I had to buy from Sears because Sears was the only one giving me credit (and thus making the purchase even more expensive!)
I fixed it for $5000 (all on credit due to NO MONEY AT ALL) and the property appraised for $87,000. I could (and did) get a second mortgage for about $16,000 and was in business to continue to pay my Sears credit card, invest a bit in my catering business and buy another 2 properties.
A year later I owned 14 properties and one of them was a restaurant for $700,000 -- which I needed because my catering business was growing at the same time and I needed a big space.
Why does not 'everyone' do it when an immigrant can do it in just 3 years???
You see, I did not know it could not be done. I was lucky enough to have not asked anyone, neither for the first house nor for the first rental property, before buying. Just 'luck' because they might have talked me out of it! After all, they all have had a few more years over me and were 'experienced' with the local situations etc.
The moral of the story is: to do anything is better than to wait!
Thus being successful is a question of attitude all the way!
From start to the end it has little to do with intelligence but only with the way you look at the glass of water - half full or half empty.
If smartness and intelligence have anything to do with being successful, it is having enough smartness or intelligence to know that one must….
I am constantly amazed at how often I hear people quoting that Babe Ruth has had more strike outs than any other player yet he was the #1 home run hitter as well.
His batting average was about as good as the average of other good players.
So, how can he succeed so incredibly extraordinarily?
He was willing to swing that bat at any time in any situation. No such statement like 'I feel not so good today, or I am tired', etc. No, he just stood up to the plate!
People who know how to quote a story or stories from the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad' by Robert T Kiyosaki and yet who are not somewhat successful or still waiting for someone else to get them out of their boring, money-less, unadventurous lives shows only one thing: they simply only 'want' and not willing to give.
Giving can be in the forms of:
Since I have mentioned Robert T. Kiyosaki I might as well end up with a story from his book 'Rich Dad Poor Dad':
The Guy sitting with Firewood in his arms on a cold freezing night, and he is yelling at the pot-bellied stove, "when you give me some heat then I will put some wood in."
And when it comes to money, love, happiness, sales, all one needs to remember is first to give what you wanted and it will come back in droves.
If you think that the stove story is an abstract example and that the 'live business world' is somewhat different, then I am telling you that as a business and marketing consultant as well as a investor and as a worker who worked in 12 different countries for others as well as for myself, I see people sitting in front of cold and empty bank accounts and living an unfulfilled life all the time.
They want to "TRY before embarking" -- they want to have proof that it works for them by looking if it has worked for others (even though because of the difference in attitude and know-how whether it worked for others has little or no bearing on whether it will work for oneself). In short they want to receive before giving and thus most of them keep waiting and waiting and get unhappier and more tired, and more fixated in their way. They keep waiting -- after all, they must prove that their waiting was the right thing to do by even more waiting.
Life passes them by and then they pass on to the young generation their hard-earned knowledge which is this: "Me too, I wanted to conquer and change the world, but as you grow older you realize that it is not so easy and that life hands you the cards it wants!!"
What balderdash that is - the words of a person who never started to even think of how HE can be in control!!
SO HERE YOU HAVE THE ANSWER WHY MOST PEOLE DO NOT DO THE THINGS WHICH ARE DEEMED TO BE GOOD.
98 % OF PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET ARE KNOWN TO BE CAREFUL, ANALYTICAL, PRUDENT, RESPONSIBLE, BUT OF COURSE, IF YOU LOOK A BIT CLOSER YOU WILL SEE THAT THOSE ARE WORDS USED TO HIDE PROCRASTINATION OR REASONS TO NOT HAVE TO ACT!
No courage, no glory could be the short version of it.
Maybe people rather do nothing so they won't even have to fail.
Hope you start 'doing' instead of worrying whether "things " will work out - they often won't - but they surely never will if you never do.
Helmut Flasch
CEO
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