A business owner--a guy who owns his own thing. That person that radiates a feeling of wealth, freedom from having to report to a boss, freedom from having to go to work, a guy driving that nice car and living in that nice house. We say about him: "Sure, he can afford it, he has his own business!" or "Obviously, he runs his own business!"
But why, if we know that owning your own business is the only true way to be successful and self-reliant are we so scared to take even consider building our own?
But you're not alone. Pull a couple of your friends aside and try and talk them into running a home-based business. They'll come up with a dozen reasons why they can't do it and a dozen more why you shouldn't try either. The standard response is "it's a good idea, but it will never work."
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 hard question to answer but take a look at the way we all learn things and you'll begin to see a pattern.
The entire concept behind the Prussian System-our system of education-is to make reliable employees out of everyone.
We learn in school and in life in general that we have to fit in, and to do that we need jobs. So we find one, slave away for peanuts, and hope that we won't have to leach off our children when we retire forty or fifty years down the road.
It's classic reward-anticipation behavior-like Pavlov's dogs. To advance in life, we are taught that we need to be a good employee and provide hard work for our betters.
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?
Throughout our early education we are repeatedly told that those fantasies are impractical, unreliable, and a waste of time. We never going to be what we want to be and if we do some day get there, we can never make money doing that!
Before you know it you are already employed by somebody and already complaining about not being able to afford the lifestyle you want and the things you want. Few years down the road it becomes normality for you and next thing you know you are teaching you kids to follow your steps.
That's what your parents taught you, that's what your kids will teach their kids unless somebody in this chain will have enough balls to break the cycle and to turn things around.
By working for yourself you can take your life back and regain the future you always wanted.
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 in an Internet based business with all of the rumors and controversy and hearsay swirling around it.
To be able to take that big step, you need to expand your "comfort zone."
How do we learn anything?
There is only one way - repetition. Remember, you try to write, it looks awful in the beginning, but you keep re-writing the same word over and over and become good at it. By now you don't even think how to do it, you just know.
That's the same way you learned to talk, to read, to play, and even to make money.
That repetition is what makes us become who we become.
If every aspect of your job makes you cringe: going in early, staying late, putting up with bad situations and garbage from your boss and co-workers-you're not alone! You say to yourself that things are only temporary, that'll you find something better, but it never does.
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.
You'll always feel comfortable doing familiar things but when you attempt anything unfamiliar your body delivers a dose of adrenalin to your brain and makes you feel anxious.
A minuscule amount of adrenalin can change the way you think and act. Don't let a chemical choose your destiny!
"It's in the moment of making a decision when the destiny is formed!"-said Tony Robbins.
But you are not going to make a decision about doing anything unfamiliar because of that adrenalin in your blood. Like an airplane on autopilot you will be getting back to what is familiar and to what you are accustomed to.
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.
And you will gladly use their opinion to justify your decision. It's much easier for you to continue doing what you are doing, even though you don't like it and deep inside you feel that you deserve a better life and more money.
Thich Nhat Hanh wrote something hundreds of years ago but he could just as well have written them today: "people are having a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar." Sound a little bit like you?
So, there you are, after having heard about Global Resorts Network, after having watched numerous testimonials, after having studied everything about this business, you are still sitting there and worrying: "What if I still don't know something, what if there is something I need to find out before I get started, what if, what if, what if"
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 took a third place for a spectacular knock-out with a round house kickto the head. It doesn't happen even in the black belt category every day. I was so frightened, that I still don't remember how it happened!
Having me talk to you all day won't do any good. Either you will decide to take the next step or you will fall back into your old comfortable ways and never stray outside your comfort zone.
Nothing will change on its own! If you continue doing what you've been doing, you will continue getting the results you've been getting!
Make a change in your life today!
You'll be scared and there will be bumps in the road but you'll never know just how high you can truly fly unless you get off the ground.
Choose to live the life you want to live!
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. - 15336
But why, if we know that owning your own business is the only true way to be successful and self-reliant are we so scared to take even consider building our own?
But you're not alone. Pull a couple of your friends aside and try and talk them into running a home-based business. They'll come up with a dozen reasons why they can't do it and a dozen more why you shouldn't try either. The standard response is "it's a good idea, but it will never work."
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 hard question to answer but take a look at the way we all learn things and you'll begin to see a pattern.
The entire concept behind the Prussian System-our system of education-is to make reliable employees out of everyone.
We learn in school and in life in general that we have to fit in, and to do that we need jobs. So we find one, slave away for peanuts, and hope that we won't have to leach off our children when we retire forty or fifty years down the road.
It's classic reward-anticipation behavior-like Pavlov's dogs. To advance in life, we are taught that we need to be a good employee and provide hard work for our betters.
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?
Throughout our early education we are repeatedly told that those fantasies are impractical, unreliable, and a waste of time. We never going to be what we want to be and if we do some day get there, we can never make money doing that!
Before you know it you are already employed by somebody and already complaining about not being able to afford the lifestyle you want and the things you want. Few years down the road it becomes normality for you and next thing you know you are teaching you kids to follow your steps.
That's what your parents taught you, that's what your kids will teach their kids unless somebody in this chain will have enough balls to break the cycle and to turn things around.
By working for yourself you can take your life back and regain the future you always wanted.
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 in an Internet based business with all of the rumors and controversy and hearsay swirling around it.
To be able to take that big step, you need to expand your "comfort zone."
How do we learn anything?
There is only one way - repetition. Remember, you try to write, it looks awful in the beginning, but you keep re-writing the same word over and over and become good at it. By now you don't even think how to do it, you just know.
That's the same way you learned to talk, to read, to play, and even to make money.
That repetition is what makes us become who we become.
If every aspect of your job makes you cringe: going in early, staying late, putting up with bad situations and garbage from your boss and co-workers-you're not alone! You say to yourself that things are only temporary, that'll you find something better, but it never does.
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.
You'll always feel comfortable doing familiar things but when you attempt anything unfamiliar your body delivers a dose of adrenalin to your brain and makes you feel anxious.
A minuscule amount of adrenalin can change the way you think and act. Don't let a chemical choose your destiny!
"It's in the moment of making a decision when the destiny is formed!"-said Tony Robbins.
But you are not going to make a decision about doing anything unfamiliar because of that adrenalin in your blood. Like an airplane on autopilot you will be getting back to what is familiar and to what you are accustomed to.
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.
And you will gladly use their opinion to justify your decision. It's much easier for you to continue doing what you are doing, even though you don't like it and deep inside you feel that you deserve a better life and more money.
Thich Nhat Hanh wrote something hundreds of years ago but he could just as well have written them today: "people are having a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar." Sound a little bit like you?
So, there you are, after having heard about Global Resorts Network, after having watched numerous testimonials, after having studied everything about this business, you are still sitting there and worrying: "What if I still don't know something, what if there is something I need to find out before I get started, what if, what if, what if"
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 took a third place for a spectacular knock-out with a round house kickto the head. It doesn't happen even in the black belt category every day. I was so frightened, that I still don't remember how it happened!
Having me talk to you all day won't do any good. Either you will decide to take the next step or you will fall back into your old comfortable ways and never stray outside your comfort zone.
Nothing will change on its own! If you continue doing what you've been doing, you will continue getting the results you've been getting!
Make a change in your life today!
You'll be scared and there will be bumps in the road but you'll never know just how high you can truly fly unless you get off the ground.
Choose to live the life you want to live!
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. - 15336
About the Author:
Author: Pavel Becker is a known contributor of articles on the subjects of Web-Promotion and Small Business Development. To learn how to make money on-line go to his blog PavelBecker.com
