Recently, I was watching news on moneywatch.com on my laptop that spurs me in writing this article. In the news, Sales Machine received some comments from reader complaining about having to “click 10 times” in order to view a long post. This kind of complaint is an outward sign of a way of thinking that automatically programs a person to fail. Let me explain.
Everybody has a set of arbitrary rules defining the meaning of events in their life. Most people don’t set these rules consciously; instead, they just “grow” into them based on their temperament and upbringing. Because of this, many people have rules that tend to make them miserable.
I have known people who, in order to consider themselves really happy, must be on a wonderful vacation, drive the coolest car in town, win the lottery, fall in love, eats some rare delicacy, or some other unusual or even once-in-a-lifetime event.
In almost every case, these same people can find virtually any excuse to be miserable. If they miss a stop light, they get upset. If they can’t get ostrich bread for breakfast, they’re upset. If they can’t watch their favorite TV show, it ruins their day, etc., etc., etc. They have an endless list of tiny things that steal away their happiness.
People, who have those rules about life, are programmed to be miserable, because they encounter dozens of things each day that irritate them, and very few events that will make them happy. And being unhappy or irritated most of the day is the ULTIMATE expression of failure in life.
Consider, then, somebody who complains about having to “click 10 times” to read a Sales Machine post. On the one hand, this person is getting information that could increase lifetime earnings by a million dollars. On the other hand, this person also has to move an index finger 10 times.
This is something to complain about? The sad truth is that anybody whose priorities are screwed up that “10 clicks” makes them upset enough to leave a comment is so completely programmed to fail that no amount of good information — from this article or anywhere else — is going to keep them from failing.
The solution, of course, is to get off your emotional duff and start doing the hard work of changing your rules. Because here’s the exciting thing: if you switch the two sets around, you’re re-programming yourself to be happy, and therefore to win.
Want to be successful? Here is how:
Decide to have rules that make it easy to be happy. Let little things that happen every day be cause for celebration. Find every excuse possible to take a little pleasure out of life. There are things you allow to take care of themselves and they happens better.
Decide to have rules that make it difficult to be miserable. Save your misery for truly awful things, like the death of a close relative, financial disaster, or a major debilitating illness.
It’s really your choice. You can let stuff like “10 clicks” make you a loser at the game of life, or you can decide to have a set of beliefs that constantly makes you happier, and therefore a winner. It’s up to you. You can worry and kick yourself to death, but life will still continue without you - so why kill yourself for what you can't change?
Now, that being said, there is a person reading this article who badly needs to listen to his own advice.
If complaining about 10 clicks is foolish, then there’s more than a little foolishness in complaining about people who complain about 10 clicks. In fact, you could argue that the “second generation” of this is the apotheosis of foolishness.
So here is my promise to you guys. I’m going to stop reading articles or books with irritated comments, bad ideologies that do not motivate me to greatness. If anything, I’ll just thank them for their input and move on to more productive work.
I want to be successful, and that means having “life rules” that make it harder for me to be irritated and easier for me to be happy.
So it’s up to me, too. So please feel free to point out to me when I’m being petty, because I really would prefer not to be that way.
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Everybody has a set of arbitrary rules defining the meaning of events in their life. Most people don’t set these rules consciously; instead, they just “grow” into them based on their temperament and upbringing. Because of this, many people have rules that tend to make them miserable.
I have known people who, in order to consider themselves really happy, must be on a wonderful vacation, drive the coolest car in town, win the lottery, fall in love, eats some rare delicacy, or some other unusual or even once-in-a-lifetime event.
In almost every case, these same people can find virtually any excuse to be miserable. If they miss a stop light, they get upset. If they can’t get ostrich bread for breakfast, they’re upset. If they can’t watch their favorite TV show, it ruins their day, etc., etc., etc. They have an endless list of tiny things that steal away their happiness.
People, who have those rules about life, are programmed to be miserable, because they encounter dozens of things each day that irritate them, and very few events that will make them happy. And being unhappy or irritated most of the day is the ULTIMATE expression of failure in life.
Consider, then, somebody who complains about having to “click 10 times” to read a Sales Machine post. On the one hand, this person is getting information that could increase lifetime earnings by a million dollars. On the other hand, this person also has to move an index finger 10 times.
This is something to complain about? The sad truth is that anybody whose priorities are screwed up that “10 clicks” makes them upset enough to leave a comment is so completely programmed to fail that no amount of good information — from this article or anywhere else — is going to keep them from failing.
The solution, of course, is to get off your emotional duff and start doing the hard work of changing your rules. Because here’s the exciting thing: if you switch the two sets around, you’re re-programming yourself to be happy, and therefore to win.
Want to be successful? Here is how:
Decide to have rules that make it easy to be happy. Let little things that happen every day be cause for celebration. Find every excuse possible to take a little pleasure out of life. There are things you allow to take care of themselves and they happens better.
Decide to have rules that make it difficult to be miserable. Save your misery for truly awful things, like the death of a close relative, financial disaster, or a major debilitating illness.
It’s really your choice. You can let stuff like “10 clicks” make you a loser at the game of life, or you can decide to have a set of beliefs that constantly makes you happier, and therefore a winner. It’s up to you. You can worry and kick yourself to death, but life will still continue without you - so why kill yourself for what you can't change?
Now, that being said, there is a person reading this article who badly needs to listen to his own advice.
If complaining about 10 clicks is foolish, then there’s more than a little foolishness in complaining about people who complain about 10 clicks. In fact, you could argue that the “second generation” of this is the apotheosis of foolishness.
So here is my promise to you guys. I’m going to stop reading articles or books with irritated comments, bad ideologies that do not motivate me to greatness. If anything, I’ll just thank them for their input and move on to more productive work.
I want to be successful, and that means having “life rules” that make it harder for me to be irritated and easier for me to be happy.
So it’s up to me, too. So please feel free to point out to me when I’m being petty, because I really would prefer not to be that way.
USEFUL RESOURCE
Sess a sustainable future Video
Make money with your iPhone
Wealth Creation for Women
command ejaculation
Making up magic
Dating Secrets
Sale Success
Starting your Internet Successful Business
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