People who own their own businesses radiate confidence, wealth, and just can't hide their free spirits. They don't punch a clock and don't answer to anyone but themselves. We see them behind the wheels of their fancy cars and living in those big houses and think: "sure, he can afford those things-he owns his own business" and business must be booming.
We are absolutely comfortable explaining somebody's successes by this "having his own business"-thing, and, yet, the idea of becoming one of this people terrifies us like nothing else.
Think that isn't true? Ask some of your friends to go into business with you as partners-but be prepared to hear all of the excuses why they can't. And be prepared to hear them tell you exactly why your business is going to fall on its face even though they have no experience running a business and probably don't even know anybody who does.
Why do we act this way? What happened in our past that we've become so conditioned to fail? Why is the failure so obvious and understandable for us? When has it become a default outcome of any situation?
It's a complicated question with a complicated answer. Let's break it down.
The entire concept of our education, known as The Prussian System, is training, including skills and the mindset that a student receives in order to become an employee.
We are taught throughout school and college that the only option we have to become a valuable member of the society - is to become a good employee, to get a job and to spend more than forty years slaving for somebody else and, hopefully,we willearn a retirement that will allow us to quietly die without disturbing our kids and asking them for money.
We are taught that the only way available to us to express ourselves is to become somebody else's worker, to be dependent on somebody and to be reworded in life for satisfying somebody else.
We are taught that the only option for us to work for someone else and do so happily for a pat on the back and a handful of cash, totally forgetting our own dignity!
What happened to your childhood dreams of being an astronaut, a fighter pilot, or a deep sea diver? When did you start thinking that being a desk jockey was an acceptable replacement for those dreams?
We forget our dreams because we are repeatedly reminded that they are impractical. How can we make money doing those things? How can we support our families? How can we be productive members of society?
Time passes and without you even noticing you've spent the better part of your life working for someone you don't like, doing something you really couldn't care less about, and hoping for a turn of good fortune in the future. Do you want your kids to end up like that?
You know it's true. You're parents shaped you into what you are today just as you are shaping your children. But what will happen if you break that cycle and turn your future around?
By turning things around I mean becoming your own boss and regaining control of your future!
Stepping into the unknown is always frightening. We are afraid when confronted with a situation we don't fully understand, and right now you don't understand much about owning a business.
Especially something like an Internet based business, with all the hype and rumors about it!
That's where we retreat into our own little "comfort zones."
How do we learn anything?
We learn by repeatition, just like when you were learning to write. Remember? It was hard to begin with but now you don't even think about it.
Any new skill is learned that way, no matter what it is.
Through repetition you become who you are as well.
Maybe the only thing that gets you through your day is thinking that the position you are in now is only temporary. You drag yourself to work early in the morning, smile and make jokes with a boss you don't respect and don't really care for, you listen to your co-workers as they gripe about the same things that keep you up at night, all the time dreaming of that big break you're going to get a little ways down the road.
Someday, maybe sooner than later, your eyes will open and you'll see that, without your knowledge, you have become a cookie-cutter representative of everyone you share an occupation with. You own the same style of car, wear the same clothes, speak the same language, and even have the same hobbies!
Through repetition you learn action, behavior, and thoughts that will define you for the rest of your life. Your actions, behavior, and thoughts will separate the world into two parts: familiar and not familiar.
The former will feel comfortable and friendly, and the latter will cause your brain to give you a burst of adrenalin, letting you know that you are stepping out of your comfort zone.
Even tiny amounts of adrenalin can influence your decision making. Think of it as chemical induced stress-avoidance behavior-it can run your life if you let it!
"It's in the moment of making a decision when the destiny is formed!"-said Tony Robbins.
It is that feeling of discomfort that comes from doing anything new that will keep you from stepping out of your routine and toward the life you really want to live.
Everyone you know will be a big help at keeping you in line as well.
Your income is an average income of seven of your closest friends. Look around yourself: you don't hang out with anybody making significantly less than you, because you don't quite understand their lifestyle, and you don't hang around people making significantly more than you because you don't have anything in common either.
This means that you can't really go to a friend and ask advice about how to make a six figure salary-not unless your friend already does. They just won't know how to answer you and will most often reply that "it can't be done" or will tell you to get your head out of the clouds.
The worst part is you'll take their opinion as fact, more often than not, because it represents the path of least resistance-it's much easier to keep doing what you are doing than to succeed at anything new.
"People are having a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar. Sound like you? Thich Nhat Hanh wrote those words over a hundred years ago but they could just have easily been written last week, and about you.
You've heard all about Global Resort Network, have read, watched, and listened to all the testimonials of people who have success dealing with them but you're still not ready to take that next step. You can't let your life be ruled by what-ifs. What is something goes wrong? What if this I can succeed? What if I do succeed?
Here is a story for you.
When I just started practicing Tae Kwon Do, before my first tournament, (I was in the orange belt rank back then) I went to talk to my coach and I said: "Master Shilkaitis (that was his name), I think I might want to participate in sparring, but I still feel that I'm not ready yet and I'm not good enough." And he said: "You will never feel that you are absolutely 100% ready! It's just the matter of finding strength and desire to win and overcoming your fear! Plus without actually sparring with somebody you will never know how good you are!"
I did compete and, with a spectacular roundhouse kick that left my opponent unconscious, I won third place. I was so nervous at the time that I can't even remember how it all happened.
I could go on and on with all the explanations and motivational speeches, but you know the concept already: it's a decision that you have to make consciously!
Nothing changes without you making a decision to change it.
Change your life today!
You'll be nervous in the beginning but over time that nervousness will go away because just as repetition leads us into those comfortable ruts so too can it help us learn new ways of doing things.
You want success, you want money, you want recognition - make a decision!
If you do, maybe next time you hear someone say "sure, he can afford those things-he owns his own business," they'll be a talking about you.
We are absolutely comfortable explaining somebody's successes by this "having his own business"-thing, and, yet, the idea of becoming one of this people terrifies us like nothing else.
Think that isn't true? Ask some of your friends to go into business with you as partners-but be prepared to hear all of the excuses why they can't. And be prepared to hear them tell you exactly why your business is going to fall on its face even though they have no experience running a business and probably don't even know anybody who does.
Why do we act this way? What happened in our past that we've become so conditioned to fail? Why is the failure so obvious and understandable for us? When has it become a default outcome of any situation?
It's a complicated question with a complicated answer. Let's break it down.
The entire concept of our education, known as The Prussian System, is training, including skills and the mindset that a student receives in order to become an employee.
We are taught throughout school and college that the only option we have to become a valuable member of the society - is to become a good employee, to get a job and to spend more than forty years slaving for somebody else and, hopefully,we willearn a retirement that will allow us to quietly die without disturbing our kids and asking them for money.
We are taught that the only way available to us to express ourselves is to become somebody else's worker, to be dependent on somebody and to be reworded in life for satisfying somebody else.
We are taught that the only option for us to work for someone else and do so happily for a pat on the back and a handful of cash, totally forgetting our own dignity!
What happened to your childhood dreams of being an astronaut, a fighter pilot, or a deep sea diver? When did you start thinking that being a desk jockey was an acceptable replacement for those dreams?
We forget our dreams because we are repeatedly reminded that they are impractical. How can we make money doing those things? How can we support our families? How can we be productive members of society?
Time passes and without you even noticing you've spent the better part of your life working for someone you don't like, doing something you really couldn't care less about, and hoping for a turn of good fortune in the future. Do you want your kids to end up like that?
You know it's true. You're parents shaped you into what you are today just as you are shaping your children. But what will happen if you break that cycle and turn your future around?
By turning things around I mean becoming your own boss and regaining control of your future!
Stepping into the unknown is always frightening. We are afraid when confronted with a situation we don't fully understand, and right now you don't understand much about owning a business.
Especially something like an Internet based business, with all the hype and rumors about it!
That's where we retreat into our own little "comfort zones."
How do we learn anything?
We learn by repeatition, just like when you were learning to write. Remember? It was hard to begin with but now you don't even think about it.
Any new skill is learned that way, no matter what it is.
Through repetition you become who you are as well.
Maybe the only thing that gets you through your day is thinking that the position you are in now is only temporary. You drag yourself to work early in the morning, smile and make jokes with a boss you don't respect and don't really care for, you listen to your co-workers as they gripe about the same things that keep you up at night, all the time dreaming of that big break you're going to get a little ways down the road.
Someday, maybe sooner than later, your eyes will open and you'll see that, without your knowledge, you have become a cookie-cutter representative of everyone you share an occupation with. You own the same style of car, wear the same clothes, speak the same language, and even have the same hobbies!
Through repetition you learn action, behavior, and thoughts that will define you for the rest of your life. Your actions, behavior, and thoughts will separate the world into two parts: familiar and not familiar.
The former will feel comfortable and friendly, and the latter will cause your brain to give you a burst of adrenalin, letting you know that you are stepping out of your comfort zone.
Even tiny amounts of adrenalin can influence your decision making. Think of it as chemical induced stress-avoidance behavior-it can run your life if you let it!
"It's in the moment of making a decision when the destiny is formed!"-said Tony Robbins.
It is that feeling of discomfort that comes from doing anything new that will keep you from stepping out of your routine and toward the life you really want to live.
Everyone you know will be a big help at keeping you in line as well.
Your income is an average income of seven of your closest friends. Look around yourself: you don't hang out with anybody making significantly less than you, because you don't quite understand their lifestyle, and you don't hang around people making significantly more than you because you don't have anything in common either.
This means that you can't really go to a friend and ask advice about how to make a six figure salary-not unless your friend already does. They just won't know how to answer you and will most often reply that "it can't be done" or will tell you to get your head out of the clouds.
The worst part is you'll take their opinion as fact, more often than not, because it represents the path of least resistance-it's much easier to keep doing what you are doing than to succeed at anything new.
"People are having a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar. Sound like you? Thich Nhat Hanh wrote those words over a hundred years ago but they could just have easily been written last week, and about you.
You've heard all about Global Resort Network, have read, watched, and listened to all the testimonials of people who have success dealing with them but you're still not ready to take that next step. You can't let your life be ruled by what-ifs. What is something goes wrong? What if this I can succeed? What if I do succeed?
Here is a story for you.
When I just started practicing Tae Kwon Do, before my first tournament, (I was in the orange belt rank back then) I went to talk to my coach and I said: "Master Shilkaitis (that was his name), I think I might want to participate in sparring, but I still feel that I'm not ready yet and I'm not good enough." And he said: "You will never feel that you are absolutely 100% ready! It's just the matter of finding strength and desire to win and overcoming your fear! Plus without actually sparring with somebody you will never know how good you are!"
I did compete and, with a spectacular roundhouse kick that left my opponent unconscious, I won third place. I was so nervous at the time that I can't even remember how it all happened.
I could go on and on with all the explanations and motivational speeches, but you know the concept already: it's a decision that you have to make consciously!
Nothing changes without you making a decision to change it.
Change your life today!
You'll be nervous in the beginning but over time that nervousness will go away because just as repetition leads us into those comfortable ruts so too can it help us learn new ways of doing things.
You want success, you want money, you want recognition - make a decision!
If you do, maybe next time you hear someone say "sure, he can afford those things-he owns his own business," they'll be a talking about you.
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Author: Pavel Becker is a frequent contributor of articles on the subjects of On-Line Marketing and Working From Home. To learn how to make money on-line go to his website PavelBecker.com Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service
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