Musings from the CU Suite

Written by Anthony Demangone

There are days when you need a swift kick to the posterior to realign things.  That's what I thought when I read this article that lists 13 reasons why you aren't as successful as you'd like to be. (NFIB.com.) Written by Jim Kukral, it really does a good job of cutting to the chase.  He's blunt.  Very direct. 

But I bet at least two of the points will hit a bit too close to home for you.  About 6 did for me...

Here's a few of his guesses regarding why you aren't as successful as you'd like.

#1 Reason You’re Not As Successful As You Should Be – Laziness

I don’t think there’s an easy way to put this. I have to assume that you’re lazy. Every single successful person works their butts off to get where they are. It’s ok to be lazy. Just admit it. But don’t whine about not being rich and successful, ok?

#5 Reason You’re Not As Successful As You Should Be – Stop Thinking

How much do you want to bet you have paralysis by analysis? You think way too much about what you could or should do. Doers get what they want, and everyone else gets what they get. Stop analyzing and start doing.

#9 Reason You’re Not As Successful As You Should Be – Time Waste

You’re a classic time-waster. You spend hours and hours every day working on not-working. You do things that aren’t productive. How are you ever going to get anything done, or reach any goal if you keep wasting time? You’re not. So you might as well give up now if you’re going to keep this path.

#10 Reason You’re Not As Successful As You Should Be – Social B.S.

You spend way too much time in social media land.  You waste probably about 50% of your productive hours of the day doing this. The sad part is, you know it, but you can’t stop. So you can’t get anything done that matters.

Ouch.  But some of his points ring true to me. 

So, question of the day, folks.  What do you think holds most people back from being as successful as they'd like to be?

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 So, I mentioned that I was going to be fishing this weekend.  It was a complete success.

 

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