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I read this article once about success

How everyone is always saying you have to do this new thing. All you have to do is follow these 7 steps. Or do this. Or stop doing this. Bookstores are filled with these kind of books. Tons of website on the topic too of course. 

A different perspective

So in the article the author was saying something different. The truth is that everything comes at a price. There is probably a good reason why you are doing what you are doing right now. You can explain to someone why you are spending your time on the things that you are spending your time on. It is not like you don't have a brain. 

So if you were to incorporate something new into your life you will have to stop doing something else. That other thing that you have to stop may be important to you. You may have thought about it for a long time and read 10 books about why you should be doing it. Now if you were to start focusing on meditation, or reading, or some new business, you are inevitable going to have to sacrifice the time you spent on that other important thing. Maybe you just forgot why you started doing that thing in the first place but if you kept on a little more it could help you. 

The point is the time that you are spending on that something else, you are spending on it for a well thought-out reason! So it is more a matter of trade-offs than just taking someone's advice and being like, "O thank you for telling me that, I didn't know that! From now on I will do that." Which is what is seems like the authors of these self-help books and things expect you to do. By the way I am not saying all self-help books are stupid.

Why Are You So Fat?

Another friend of mine is very successful in network marketing and coaching. I don't agree with him 100% necessarily but he had an interesting perspective at least I thought. He says more or less the same thing than that guy who wrote that other article. People know what they are supposed to do but they don't do it. Why? Because it is just not important enough for them. They don't want those results bad enough. Even though they KNOW they will get those results if they do those things. 

He actually uses the example of himself. He is like 100 pounds overweight. He says he owns several exercise machines. He knows what to do to lose weight. It is simple, just drink more water and exercise. But he admits that it is JUST NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH FOR HIM. Brutal honesty. He tries some things but he admits that he is not serious enough to see serious results.

He uses that example of himself to prove a point to people that he coaches. The reason why people won't take action and work at their businesses  is BECAUSE IT IS JUST NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO THEM. It was kind of liberating for me to hear that. It cuts through all the self help rubbish that fill the bookstores and online.

Another thing that kind of got to me, was the reason why he feels it is not important to him. He argues like this. What is the main cause of death in America (can't remember if it is around the world too). Heart Disease. What causes heart disease? Stress. What causes stress? Most stress is money-related. So if he is making money, his stress levels fall. That effect he feels has a larger net effect on his health than if he was to engage in all kinds of healthy habits. 

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