Lets see if this sounds familiar. You go to work everyday, you do a good job and you never quite get that promotion. You've been there for years, and someone else who just started is now the boss. Everyday you have been getting there early or staying late. Your boss calls on Saturday and you take the call. And you still haven't got the promotion.
Or maybe this is more your situation. You start a job and within days you wonder how the place even works. The boss is clueless. You wonder how he became the boss, then you find out he is up for a promotion. How does this happen when he doesn't know what he is doing?
Is this you? Do you feel like you are on a hamster wheel, running as hard as you can or walking all day and still getting no where? That's the "Hard Way". Your boss on the "Fast Track", he is taking the easy way.
The Hard Way is a road full of nails that stops you right where you are and your only choice it seems is to get on the hamster wheel to nowhere with everyone else. The bills pile up, and you can't afford to leave the hamster wheel to nowhere you call a job. Luckily there are some other people there with you wearing the same golden handcuffs so they can't leave the wheel either.
Misery loves company.
How do you get off the hamster wheel and actually make forward progress down the road of success?
The first step is to learn that society (including most or all of your friends) don't want you to learn the easy way. They want company on that miserable hamster wheel. The more people that join them the better they feel about themselves. They can says things like "What can you do" or "It is what it is" and just sit there with you. A few lazy ones will even slow down and let you pick up their slack.
They don't want you to leave. Because when you leave, they are afraid you might actually do something and achieve success. If you do that, you make them look bad.
Think about this. How many truly successful people do you know and admire? How many do you know that you want to be like or that have a life that you would like to have. Then think about how many people you know that don't live much differently than you do.
I bet the second group is huge compared to the first group. The reality is, that if you want to hang out with the top 5% of the successful people in the world, you have to first learn to stop hanging out with and listening to the other 95%.
At first you will be lonely and challenged by your old friends to come back and give up your dreams. True friends support your dreams, most "friends" are dream killers. Instead of helping you figure out the easy way, they just laugh and wait for you in the hamster wheel.
Even if you have tried to leave the hamster wheel before you might have found that you were in a seminar or learning about some "opportunity" with another group of people that are really just on a different hamster wheel.
It takes time to make the transition, no matter what you decide to do when you turn right down the easy path.
What do you want to do?
The Easy Guide Books
The Bourquin Group
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