The #1 Reason Most People Struggle in Life and Business

It’s Not What You’ve Been Told

Why, with all this time, money and energy being spent on “self-help”, are so few people actually living the life they really want?

Another way to ask this is:

Why are millions of people who’ve spent so much time and money trying to improve themselves STILL going down the road of life with one foot on the brake?

There actually IS an answer to this seemingly unanswerable question. But like most vexing problems, to answer this question, we must first ask a deeper question. The deeper question we need to ask is:

What Causes Human Behavior?

Why are People Who are Dumber Than Me so Much Richer Than I Am?

After I left college (for the first time), I became the most highly educated under-achiever you ever saw. I found myself in a series of dead-end jobs: secretary, waiter, clerk; I sold kites, sold sweaters (not at the same store, of course); I even cleaned toilets as a housekeeper. And each job I hated more than the last.

During those long, lean years, two questions burned inside of me:

“How could someone with so much education have achieved so little?”

“Why are people who are dumber than me so much richer than I am?”

So I did what anyone would do in that situation:

I started studying the phenomenon called “success”. I bought every book, listened to every CD, and went to every seminar I could. I spent lots of time, money and energy trying to answer those two questions. It took me years and years of hard study.

And after all that time, effort and expense, the question I now had was:

When One Door Closes, Another Opens.

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