Why do you work?
Why do you get up in the morning?
Nineteen out of twenty people have no idea, according to Earl Nightingale, a well known motivational speaker. If you ask them, they will say everyone gets up in the morning and everyone goes to work. They do it because everyone is doing it! In other words, we are all conformists!
Why do you wait till you are 65 years of age before you retire?
Because the government sets the retirement age at age 65 when you are old and in ill health. Most of us Americans by the time we reach age 65, will be popping pills for all kinds of old age ailments. Is this what you call retirement, the golden age? The government actuaries had this all figured out and they are thinking of raising the retirement age to 67! So why are we not looking to jump off this ill conceived retirement age?
Because we all conform!
JR Ridinger, an entrepreneur, has been preaching to the masses since 1992, "Come work with me and retire in 2-3 years!"
Why so few people took his bait? Not only are we skeptical but our conforming minds completely shut this "absurd" idea out. So what happened to those "gullible" enough to take JR's bait? They are all wealthy creating a lifestyle with complete time and financial freedom. Those who thumbed their noses at his idea continues to make a living, trading in their time for a paycheck, trying to make ends meet!
Earl Nightingale in his video, "The Strangest Secret," quoted from the book, "Man's Search For Himself," by Rollo May, "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity!"
He continues, "It is conformity, people acting like everyone else without knowing why, without knowing where they are going that prevents people from succeeding."
According to Earl, "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."
In other words, a person without a goal is like a rudderless ship, drifting in a vast ocean and going nowhere. Whereas, a ship equipped with a captain who charts his course with his crew will reach his destination 99.99 percent of the time!
The key to success, as Earl puts it, is someone who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. The key to failure is when you are like a rudderless ship, just drifting in the sea of life. So go ahead, make a goal, think about it every day and most of all Do not Conform!.
Marcus Aurelius: A man's life is what his thoughts make out of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A man is what he thinks about all day long.
We become what we think about. Think Time and Financial Independence!
Why do you get up in the morning?
Nineteen out of twenty people have no idea, according to Earl Nightingale, a well known motivational speaker. If you ask them, they will say everyone gets up in the morning and everyone goes to work. They do it because everyone is doing it! In other words, we are all conformists!
Why do you wait till you are 65 years of age before you retire?
Because the government sets the retirement age at age 65 when you are old and in ill health. Most of us Americans by the time we reach age 65, will be popping pills for all kinds of old age ailments. Is this what you call retirement, the golden age? The government actuaries had this all figured out and they are thinking of raising the retirement age to 67! So why are we not looking to jump off this ill conceived retirement age?
Because we all conform!
JR Ridinger, an entrepreneur, has been preaching to the masses since 1992, "Come work with me and retire in 2-3 years!"
Why so few people took his bait? Not only are we skeptical but our conforming minds completely shut this "absurd" idea out. So what happened to those "gullible" enough to take JR's bait? They are all wealthy creating a lifestyle with complete time and financial freedom. Those who thumbed their noses at his idea continues to make a living, trading in their time for a paycheck, trying to make ends meet!
Earl Nightingale in his video, "The Strangest Secret," quoted from the book, "Man's Search For Himself," by Rollo May, "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity!"
He continues, "It is conformity, people acting like everyone else without knowing why, without knowing where they are going that prevents people from succeeding."
According to Earl, "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."
In other words, a person without a goal is like a rudderless ship, drifting in a vast ocean and going nowhere. Whereas, a ship equipped with a captain who charts his course with his crew will reach his destination 99.99 percent of the time!
The key to success, as Earl puts it, is someone who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. The key to failure is when you are like a rudderless ship, just drifting in the sea of life. So go ahead, make a goal, think about it every day and most of all Do not Conform!.
Marcus Aurelius: A man's life is what his thoughts make out of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A man is what he thinks about all day long.
We become what we think about. Think Time and Financial Independence!
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