I have a confession to make - several confessions in fact.


I have at times been stupid enough to believe that work is not necessary to make money or achieve success.


A few years ago I joined a network marketing company that promised to create a down line of buying customers for me without any work on my part. I would of course have to pay a monthly fee myself. I was happy to do this.


However Aleksander Barkov Jersey Youth , after more than a year, no down line had appeared and the company was not doing well. Nothing had happened as promised even though they seemed to be lovely people who meant well.


Reluctantly I ended my membership. I was not alone in losing all the money I had spent on this enterprise. I also paid for health products which ended up being poured down the plug hole.


In the last 5 years I have wasted at least ?30,000 ($ 50 Mike Hoffman Jersey Womens ,000) on companies that promised they could easily double any money invested in them. One of the companies turned out to be fraudulent.


I could have found this out if I had done enough work to check them out. They were already listed as suspicious by the financial authorities.


Later I found out that over 800 people in the UK had been conned in the same way as me. I was not alone in my laziness and gullibility.


I also lent ?2000 to a retired stockbroker in England who promptly lost the lot investing in the website malls of an internet entrepreneur based in Jerusalem. This man promised much but did not deliver.


The man who borrowed the money from me and several others felt no obligation to pay me back.


I did not pursue the matter because he was old and a heavy smoker. Again I should have done the work necessary to check out the Jerusalem entrepreneur. So should the stockbroker and the others who trusted the stockbroker's judgement


It is easier to trust people without doing the work necessary to find out the details. It is easier to listen to their big promises rather than read the small print.


How did I and they come to believe that we could make money without doing any work even the tiny amount of work necessary to check out the people we were trusting with our money?


Many humans, including me, are naturally lazy. We prefer to trust people rather than find out the facts for ourselves.


Being lazy we like to believe that money can be made easily by taking the advice of experts. We don't realise that it takes work to find out who the experts are. We also need to realise that experts can be wrong especially when they are not personally involved.


How many expert doctors give the wrong diagnosis. A doctor once told me I was making a fuss when I complained about the pain in my foot. I later discovered that I had gangrene in my foot. I nearly lost my leg and my life.


He was an expert but he was not the one feeling the pain.


How many financial experts lose money for us. It is not their money which is at risk.


We might do much better by becoming an expert ourselves. This could well save us time and money in the long run. We are the ones who are really concerned about our interests.


It has been said that an hour's work a day for six months can make a person of average intelligence into an expert at most things. In other words regular work or study can make us experts or can Jonathan Huberdeau Jersey Womens , at least, make us competent.


Many people give up before they become competent because they cannot face being incompetent in the early parts of their studies. But if they continue to work and do not give up they will gradually become competent and eventually expert.


Sometimes, in our quest for expertise Anton Stralman Jersey Womens , it might be useful to travel to hear an expert face to face. Travelling is work unless you love trains and planes and the lazy person will not make the effort to travel.


I have, surprisingly, made the effort to travel to several seminars to hear motivational and entrepreneurial experts like Tony Robbins Aaron Ekblad Jersey Womens , Randy Gage, Stuart Goldsmith, Jonathan Mizel Keith Yandle Jersey Womens , Corey Rudl, Marlon Sanders and Dave O'Connor.


I also have travelled to learn from several great Martial artists like Grandmaster Kwang Jo Choi, Danny Inosanto and Gary Spiers.


But I have not done the follow up work necessary to make the most of the entrepreneurial seminars.


Again Roberto Luongo Jersey Womens , I am not alone in this. 95% of seminar attendees fail to follow up and apply what they learn at seminars. They think that attendance at the seminar is enough. It isn't.


I have boxes full of seminar materials that I have not even opened let alone read. Again I am not alone in this. About 95% of people do the same as me. One study has shown that only 14 out of a hundred people in a civilised Western country buy books and out of these 14 only 1 person reads beyond the first chapter!


Why is this? Why are people so reluctant to accept the fact that work is necessary if you want to achieve success in anything.


? Work is not glamorous. Being talented and clever is glamorous. However, even the talented have to work to make the most of their talent. But we don't see them at work behind the scenes. Rock stars eventually give up being stars even though they love appearing on stage. They just can't stand the drudgery of constant travel. I played the drums in a band once. The actual playing was great but carrying the drums around and setting them up was not.


? Speakers sometimes give the 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 the seminar is over. They have their own lives and projects to get on with.


? Modern culture encourages the belief in easy solutions. You want a meal? No problem. Five minutes in the microwave is enough. No need for any of this peeling potatoes and putting joints in the oven. The hard work of cooking is still necessary to produce a healAssuming the day has finally a. Wholesale Jerseys China Wholesale Cheap Jerseys Wholesale Cheap Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys From China Wholesale Authentic NCAA Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys China Free Shippping Wholesale Authentic Baseball Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Online Wholesale NHL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale Football Jerseys