If you are thinking of going into business for yourself read this first. You should find it interesting and useful.
The following are the reasons why I am saying no to business. I am going to read this blog every time I feel tempted to pull out my credit card and buy another Internet marketing product. It should save me a lot of money and many hours and days slaving away at something I cannot do because I am unsuited and incapable of it. Here is the list:
- I am 60 years old
- I lack a work ethic. That is not surprising as I have not worked at a job for more than 25 years
- I lack confidence and to succeed in business you need to be completely convinced that you will succeed. Again it is not surprising that I should lack confidence given my past failed efforts.
- I lack a reason why. For whatever reason I don’t particularly care what happens to me anymore. Without a strong emotional motivation there is no way I am going to put in the hard yards required to make money in business. As Muhammad Ali (the boxer) wrote – It takes a tiger’s drive to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I lack that drive.
- I am terrified of death and loneliness and have spirituality as a priority for that reason.
- I am suffering from schizophrenia and am fickle minded. Again this is something I have to live with and cannot change
- I lack money. There is a saying in the Stock Markets that scared money never wins.
- I am childlike and am very easily fooled. And there is a saying – Only the paranoid survive in business
- Spirituality tries to free you from the ego, not make the ego perfect. Again this is opposed to the requirements of being a businessman where having and maintaining a proper mindset is very important.
- I have the temperament of a scientist or a philosopher or a scholar and not that of a businessman. A scientist is slow to make up his mind and quick to change it. A businessman on the other hand needs to be quick to make up his mind but slow to change it.
- I don’t want to work on my mindset. A person’s basic temperament cannot be changed according to Freud so I am not confident of being able to maintain a positive mindset. More on how you can change your mindset if you are really determined is explained in the blog below:
https://insightsandexperiences.com/how-to-change-your-mindset/ - Sun Tzu advised us to know ourselves and the enemy. Another relevant quote from Sun Tzu is, If the battle can’t be won, don’t fight it.
So, decision made. I am not going to try my hand at business anymore.
The next time I feel like pulling out my credit card and making a purchase of a make money online product I am going to shut down my laptop and visit the nearest Starbucks and have a coffee. That is better value for money.
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