Are You Lazy? I Sure Am!
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Well…are you lazy?
I am.
Lazy…and Driven.
Weird combination isn’t it?
I like to sleep in…
I hate to do mundane chores.
I get bored easily and look for something new to do.
At times I lack follow through and yet I have more follow through that 99% of the people you will meet on this earth.
I will stay up all night to figure something out …
And yes I will blow off tasks that NEED to be done on a regular basis.
Crazy …right?
I know I am WEIRD.
I knew it as a kid.
I could out perform every other kid in my class and yet I often had crappy grades…
Seems the BOX they wanted to put me in didn’t quite fit
I was not cut out for standard society and really had no idea what I would do with my life …
So I got married…had kids and got lost in a vat of ice cream and 10 pm TV dramas.
UNTIL…
I accidentally landed in the home business industry and all of a sudden I realized that THIS was a world that was custom made for me.
I could use all of my creativity and smarts while at the same time being as LAZY as I wanted!!!
Once I figured out list building and once I figured out how to meet 10 new people on a daily basis it all became like a DREAM.
And this is what I teach people how to do on a daily basis.
But you know what I find?
Seems that maybe I as the LUCKY one…
Lazy with some serious ADHD…
Cause for me the transition was easy peasy…
But for others who were diligent …
And who had learned to TOE THE LINE and BEHAVE and do what teacher said word for word…
Well those folks tend to struggle with this profession because they are trying very hard to find “directions”
And those directions just do not exist.
So they go from course to course…
Guru to guru trying to figure out what can be broken down into ta few simple steps.
Over complicating and over analysis are the tell tale signs of these types as they are looking for the “RIGHT WAY”.
You see…kids like me…
With learning disabilities and stuff like that…
We never cared about the “right way”
We just cared about the EASY WAY…
How to get it done…
Cause frankly we had a hard enough time getting our minds to focus long enough to do anything at all let alone to do it “the right way”
LOL
When I was in college I would spend the first week of every semester studying my professors….
I watch them and listened to them and figured out what they were all about.
I know if I could surmise what what important to them I could pass their class.
Some of them wanted you to perform on a multiple choice test based on the text book…
Those were the easy peasy ones…
Some wanted a lot of participation ..which means I actually needed to show up for their class.
But if you talked in class you were all set…
Again…NO PROBLEMO.
Some wanted you to quote them back to them and tell them how BRILLIANT they were…
These were my favorites!
All you had to do was SUCK UP and you were golden…
Now the tough ones…
And these were the ones I would avoid like the plague …
Were the ones that wanted you to write SEVERAL multi paged papers to get the grade.
To me…papers were AGONY as it meant putting information in order for someone else to read.
Man…
If you just gave me an oral exam I knew all the crap they wanted me to know…
But make me write it all in a sequence and I was in trouble.
The ol ADHD would give me trouble in that area and basically every single time I would have to wait till the night before and then stay up all night writing the paper as that was the ONLY WAY I could focus to get it done.
So WHY am I telling you all of this?
Cause simply put…
EVERYTHING…and I do mean EVERYTHING is a FORMULA.
Your job is to just FIND THE FORMULA.
And that is what I did in this industry.
And because I found the formula I have been on Easy Street for a long time now.
There’s only a few things you need to do.
And you need to do them EVERY DAY…
And when you do CONSISTENTLY you WIN.
And when you WIN you can goof off the rest of the time like I do.
Are you lazy?
Like I said…
I am Lazy and Driven.
And NOW I know why I had to go through all that as a kid.
It was to set me up for TODAY and this glorious life I live
So that’s it…
No offer today…
No sales stuff…
Nothing to buy.
Just some love.