9 Reasons You Are Not Successful »
Posted by: TheAttacks 1 year, 5 months agoSuccessful people and leaders in all walks of life tend to have similar core qualities about them. Of course everyone is better at some things than others, but there are certain characteristics that most possess. We all want to self actualize and become the best that we can, so I will provide you with 9 reasons why you have not yet reached your f
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JenMurdock1 year, 5 months ago
Yeah, if only it were that simple. Never mind demographics, or knowing the right people, or living in a nepotistic town. I know PLENTY of smart, educated and POOR people, and some rich STUPID and financially rich people. Sorry, but it's not that cut and dry. My dad was smart, educated and in the right industry, but his 'boss' was stupid but KISSED THE RIGHT BUTT and never 'made waves' and that's why HE was the boss. He was a butt kisser, and my dad would never SINK that LOW. Luckily I don't KISS BUTT EITHER.
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coolicula1 year, 5 months ago
One of the best editorial cartoons I ever saw was of the very wealthy and successful Steve Forbes, when he was running for president, standing on a pedestal, arms akimbo, and the caption read..."I wish all of you whiners would roll up your shirtsleeves, get busy, and inherit your own fortunes!"...Sometimes it's just who's your Daddy!
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jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
Weak. If you are waiting for your parents to be retroactively wealthy, then I guess you can keep on waiting.
What is wrong with working to put yourself through college on your own? What is wrong with taking student loans? What is wrong with going without any new stuff or vacations until you finish your college education?
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Tenric1 year, 5 months ago
While I recognize it is harder to get into schools if you grow up in a ghetto, there are a lot of opportunities (i.e. scholarships) for minorities. Yeah, I know I'm going to get flamed on this, but if you work hard enough you can overcome any adversity. Isn't that what all those movies are telling us??
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JaneMay1 year, 5 months ago
Very good points. I come from a family that couldn't afford to send me to college, wern't rich at all, actually they were immagrants and did not win the lottery. With that said, I still consider myself a leader and successful at what I value.
Success can be measured in so many ways...financial stability, position held in a company, quality of life, maintaining positive relationships with friends and family members, etc.
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ladyraestewart1 year, 5 months ago
Very true --- about 20 years ago I was in the six figure income bracket but realized I was living to work. Not worth it so my income is considerably less (way less) but I am more successful and richer than I could have imagined. I love my job, I have a full life, and I'm rich with happiness, family and friends. That's what it's all about not living to work.
And think about it, who ever on their deathbed said, "boy I should have worked harder, spent more time at the office?"
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choppywatters1 year, 5 months ago
10... You spend too much time reading reports about why you're not successful!
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shots581 year, 5 months ago
Odviously being a good speller is not that important to being successful. The correct spelling is organization.
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moxxxxxxxxxx1 year, 5 months ago
There are many succesful people who cannot spell. You are limiting your organizations resources if you hire only good spellers. You might want to go searching your shredder basket for the analytical, mechanical and creative people you shredded. Forget it ! Piecing together those shredded resumes takes a little more skill than good spelling. Something your organization doesn't have.
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roobah1 year, 5 months ago
It's that BLANKITY BLANK #6 that gets me every time!!! I'd be famous and rich if I'd quit spending time reading these dumb articles!
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bigtimber1 year, 5 months ago
Success in the money world is ok if you get it for free, but it's not worth working everyday of your whole life for. To be truly successful you need to live life, not acumulate a buntch of money and junk. Life is only for a short while, don't spend it trying to build up anything as the only wealth and security you can ever have is time. Over achievers fail at life and they usually don't understand that till its to late.
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CommonSense501 year, 5 months ago
LOL!LOL!LOL! This has got to be up there at the top of the most useless lists of "what to do"... Focus? Honesty? Hard work? etc. do NOT mean a thing in the real working world! It is who you know and how you play the "game". I think we have all seen or experienced someone or ourselves, work hard, get the job done and then have another party walk away with the kudos, promotion and raise! Anyone who takes this list seriously needs to get a reality check-the working worlds does NOT function under these conditions! Its is Politics, Politics, Politics. Classis example for me: I worked at a firm and one year I got the "best" rating and raise of hte entire company, the next year? I got the "worst" rating and raise. Difference between years? The PERSON I WORKED FOR. My working habits did not change, but upper personnel did!
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Amazing11 year, 5 months ago
How about facing the fact that you really are not that motivated by money?
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jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
Agree. You would never get this one from people who overcame adversity.
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Amazing11 year, 5 months ago
I think the successful person also has to KNOW what they WANT.
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sue20081 year, 5 months ago
to be successful, you have to be rich or know someone that is rich or live in the same city with rich people. your ideas will always be ideas untill someone with big bank account converts your ideas into actions.
sooo, connection is needed.
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jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
Do you really want to be poor? Why can't you be financially stable and also have the other things in life that are important to you?
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jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
Excuses, I mean reasons for being unsuccussful:
1. Wasn't born into money
2. Didn't have rich parents that could send you to college
3. Didn't win the lottery
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Follow_the_Money1 year, 5 months ago
My experience has shown me that reading how to be successful usually takes up all of the time that you need to become successful. I have known many highly educated people who are NOT successful or rich. However, I have a good friend who never completed the 8th grade who is a multi-millionaire. His secret??.....Follow the trends. Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty. Get in and get out while it is still a trend. Last, and most important....DON'T PLAY BY THE RULES!!!
I have never been able to put these ideas to work even though I have invented many things and hold patents on most of them. It takes a certain mindset. Some of us just don't have that and no amount of advice will give it to us.
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jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
The bad news is that you cannot pick your parents. And you get the looks that you inherited. A person can do the best with what they were born with as far as their looks are concerned. As far as being athletic, this is addressable too. I lost 45 pounds last year for all kinds of reasons but one of them was because I felt that my appearance was holding me back.
I got a new and much better job this year. A part albeit probably a small part of it was because I looked better.
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Amok771 year, 5 months ago
You are defining success by money, how stupid. There are a lot of things more important than money. Money would make most of us prudish aholes. I would place moral values and love ahead of money cause thats all I got. :)
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