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•Speakers who promote business opportunities sometimes give
impression that making money is easy. It may be easy for them after years of experience but it is not easy for beginners who soon run into what seem to be major roadblocks and not all experts are keen to help once seminar is over. They have their own lives and projects to get on with.
•Modern culture encourages belief in easy solutions. You want a meal? No problem. Five minutes in microwave is enough. No need for any drudgery like peeling potatoes and putting joints in oven.
•People get used to instant solutions and shortcuts. The idea of steady, patient work becomes less fashionable.
•Abundance teaching is partly to blame for people thinking they can get rich without work. People are taught that if they visualise themselves in a mansion with their favourite cars etc, these things will materialise.
•I believe that abundance thinking does help achieve dreams but it can make people think that only a little work is necessary. The universe will take care of it. But universe usually works when you do. God helps those who help themselves.
Michael Angier teaches that you are a success moment you take action toward a worthy objective.
Action is key word here. Humans can think and/or can take action. Some people only think and some people only act. We need both. Even spiritual life demands real, down to earth action. The Bible stresses importance of what people think and believe but also teaches that 'faith without works' is dead.
Clint Eastwood as gun toting preacher in film 'Pale Rider' offers to help break up a rock for his host. He is invited to do something more 'spiritual'. He comments:
"Spirit ain't worth spit without a little exercise. There's plain few problems cain't be solved with a little sweat and hard work."
Work is one of those values which should become fashionable again. Work is necessary. Without work and action we will achieve nothing. Even when we are doing a job we enjoy, some boring drudgery is necessary.
At moment my 'job' is being a writer and info publisher. I love some of this work but I hate logging on to websites. Logging on is boring work. You have to find your user name and password. I have sometimes forgotten both and then need to wait for an email to tell me what my password is or have to get into my password software to find out. This usually involves remembering or looking up another password!
Sometimes you find that owner of website you are trying to reach has gone out of business or has turned site into a membership site where you have to pay yet another monthly fee to access stuff inside it. The owner may even have no record that you joined his site and you then have to find receipts etc. from years back.
You also have to keep track of how many membership sites you belong to and which credit cards you used to pay your initial and recurring membership fees. If you decide to cancel your membership, you then have to spend time finding out or rediscovering how you do this.
We just have to accept fact that some drudgery and boring work is necessary in everything we do. Let's not waste time moaning about it. It is part of reality of universe just like cleaning our teeth and visiting dentist.
If we have this attitude of just getting on with it, we will achieve more and succeed much more quickly than we thought possible. We can then sit back, for a while at least, and enjoy sunshine or, in my case, rain.
I do not mean by this that all we get in UK is rain. At moment we are, in my opinion, getting too much sunshine and humidity. I prefer rain and wind and cold! It is much more motivating!
Of course, it is important to work on high priority tasks. We need to decide which tasks are most productive and then get on with those. If we do not do this we can spend hours working and achieving nothing much.
After hours of work on trivial tasks we will feel little satisfaction. After hours of work on key tasks we will begin to feel excitement and enthusiasm that goes with achievement.
Marketing is a key task that many business men and women find boring. They would prefer to spend time improving products they are selling. However, excitement of making sales can soon make up for any boredom involved and good marketing is often natural expression of enthusiasm felt for a great product.
Work, then, is still necessary. It can be boring and frustrating but it can also lead on to excitement and adventure of success.
John Watson is an info publisher on the internet and a martial arts school owner. He taught religious studies and life skills to teenagers in London schools for about 33 years before retiring in 2000 A.D. His own e-books and those of the English multimillionaire, Stuart Goldsmith, can be found on his site at www.motivationtoday.com
