How many if given chance would change careers, partners, domiciles, and friends? What percentage are living a life by rote? It takes not a lot of thought for these people, everything just is.

Get up by an alarm because you have to. Get dressed in a certain type of clothes you might not otherwise wear, because that is what is called for where you spend most of your waking hours. Go do something you might not particularly care for, or at best are not passionate about, because it pays a check on a consistant basis.

What bothers me most about this scenario is apparent fact that this system is not working! It seems to me most people fall into one of two categories. Either you have little or no money to spare, or you have little or no time to spare - or both.

What I see is a whole race of people devoting entire lives to little or no money, and little or no time in hopes of having more money and time! What is wrong with this picture?

In my opinion it is a tragedy, and great unknown American epidemic.

Too many people are Doing something, so they can Have stuff, so they can Be somebody.

What do I mean by Be somebody'? My belief is we are taught who we should be from before we can talk. How many billions of marketing dollars have been spent to make you believe a new car is a must have? How many times have you seen, consciously or not, an advertisement convincing you that everyone must look pretty, drive nice cars, wear a particular brand of clothes, or drink a certain beer? How about weeds in your yard, smell of your house, or your breath?

In effect, we are indirectly taught if we are to Be somebody, we must Have certain things, and if we do not Have these things, we cannot Be somebody. How do we Have this stuff? We Do something. Usually we Do thing that makes us most money or at least most consistent money as many fear changing for losing what they already Have.

Have you read an article discussing benefits of time management and made a promise to your Self to follow steps? Or, maybe last seminar or teleclass you attended had some great ideas for changing your financial standing. Writing a book? Losing some weight? Self improvement?

How far did you get?

Don't worry, you are not alone. Most of us at one point or another decide to do something for ourselves or someone else. We have best intentions in mind. We might even make some changes towards our goals, and go so far as to take some action steps. Have you ever bought an exercise machine? Yes, me too.

What happens to us? Why is it so hard to make these changes? There are several reasons.

The first and hardest challenge is our old friend ego. Our ego is completely happy right where it is. Furthermore our ego absolutely hates changes and will go to great lengths to convince you that change is worst idea you ever had. In fact, your ego will actually fabricate fear and pain in order to keep status quo!

We have all heard it takes 21 days to create a new habit. We could change statement to: it takes 21 days to break our ego of its old habits!