It seems obvious yet so many people don’t apply this in their own lives – you can’t win the lottery without taking the necessary action: buying a ticket. And in life, the only person who can take the action necessary is you. You can get help, of course, but if you sit on the sofa and expect others to do it for you, you’ve got no chance!
Playing the Blame Game
– some walk around in victim mode, blaming everything and everyone else for their lack of success while they sit around… blaming everything and everyone else while not taking the action necessary to start them on the road to success.
There is no Quick Fix!
Others have bought into the quick fix, minimum effort, sit back and it will come to me if I think positive thoughts, approach. It’s like they say they want to amass a fortune while at the same time spending all of the money in their account. People have watched videos like the Secret and missed an important point: positive thinking alone isn’t enough – you have to take action!
Procrastination
Others procrastinate and say “I’ll buy a ticket next week, when the time feels right”. Thing is, the time never feels right to them. In addition, if someone else puts in the effort and succeeds, the procrastinator becomes jealous and embittered. Or even worse, they set themselves up as critics criticising what others are doing but doing nothing positive for themselves.
Congruency
Congruency is a key word here; you have to buy a ticket before you can win the lottery – you have to walk your talk and be authentic in your life. And you have to be prepared to rake action, even if it means that talking your talk puts you in a minority.
Peter Drucker
Many years ago, an Austrian management writer named Peter Drucker observed that there are three types of people in the world – those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. Nowadays I’d add a fourth category – those who fail to realise that anything has happened at all.
To put it another way, there are players, spectators and those who fail to turn up. Only players make a real difference.
So, the fact still remains, if you want to make things happen, you have to buy a ticket!
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Great post, I used to be guilty of a few of those things, mainly playing the blame game. But once you stop blaming people, take actions and get on with your life things are just so much easier.
Hi Theo
Thanks for your comment – the blame game is a tough habit to break, but well worth the effort, isn’t it!
Keep well
Nic