Lately I have been sick and tired of the negativity that has surrounded me. It seems as though I cannot escape the people bitching, complaining and telling stories of hard times and how “tough it is out there”. These have been typically people in their 40s and 50s who are well into their working lives and still several years from “retirement”.
I have one request of these people…..Please keep the negativity to yourselves.
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Why? Negativity breeds negativity….and I have had just about all I can handle recently. Everyone is dealt a different deck of cards and some have got the short end of the stick…..but there are people out there who have been wildly successful having been dealt a very poor hand (think Robert Herjavec).
Lucky for me, I recently read an inspiring blog post on the Rock Star Real Estate Blog entitled “Two Monks Lost in Corporate Communist Canada”.
Basically the jist of this story is that…..as Rolf Potts puts it…. “We end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.”
However, the guys at Rock Star do a good job of motivating people who follow their blog.
Their response to this?
It may seem like slow progress at first but each little step you take towards personal independence will pay off.
Stay focused. Stay disciplined. Don’t get frustrated and give up – it’s too easy to do that.
Find people that are doing what you want to be doing. Go and hang out with them. Listen to their language, watch their actions, examine their results.
And one day you’ll wake up realizing that all those little steps have taken you to an entirely new world. One where you’re the boss.”
Thanks for the much needed motivation Rock Star Team. I needed that one.
