Why are you letting YOUR money fly away?

How much money have you let fly away in your lifetime?  The average person has left over two million dollars on the table in an average lifetime.  They do this by either not taking an opportunity when it presented itself, or by doing nothing at all.  Doing what they’ve always done; go to work, come home, eat, watch TV and then go to bed.  Get up, do the same thing again tomorrow. 

Is that you? 

Why?  Why are you letting YOUR money pass you by?

For most people it’s because of a few basic reasons.  First you have the negative thinkers that feel that they will fail if they try something new.  So instead of taking the shot that may have propelled them to success, they just find every excuse as to why they will fail.  And guess what, they do.  They sabatoge themselves before they even get started.

Second and quite frankly I think it the dumbest reason of all, that people allow money to pass them by, is they want everything free.  Put an opportunity in front of them and they are all for it, as long as it is free.  Ask them to put a little skin in the game, and suddenly they cant do it.  The real downside to it, is it doesn’t matter how much money it is.  For instance we are doing some workshops to help people get their start in the real estate investing business, where we give them a step by step action plan that will have them up and running a business and making money in 30 days or less.  It’s three hours of great training, and it will make every single person there at least ten thousand dollars over the next year.  It only cost $50 to attend, and guess what 90% of the people who respond to our advertising for the workshop ask?

“How come I have to pay?  Do you have any grants (in other words free money I don’t have to pay back)?  Can’t I take the course and then pay you when I make money?

It blows me away the stupid questions like this that we get everyday.  We normally charge thousands of dollars for our training courses, help people become millionaires via real estate, and we hold a $50 workshop and people are to cheap to pay for it?  Are you serious! Most of the people who ask those questions are the same ones who will go and spend that same fifty dollars on something they don’t need, or don’t mind spending five dollars a day on the lottery!  How’s that working for you?  Have you hit yet?  Didn’t think so.  

But yet here you have the opportunity to “hit the lotto” right in front of you, and you let it pass you by.  Wow!

Third reason is the most basic.  Fear.  Fear of success. 

Success is not an easy thing to accept when you’ve been programmed for failure.  It’s easier to say you are stuck in the situation you are in because “Bush messed up the economy,” or “the Big Three shut down my plant,” or “everyone is losing their house in Michigan right now.”  (all of those are excuses I’ve heard lately)  But it’s much harder to accept and deal with the fact that you’ve actually been successful and have to maintain that success over a long period of time.  That may be a hard concept for many to understand, but it’s true.  It’s easier to fail.  To succeed takes work and effort.

So which are you?  Are you one of the three mentioned above that continue to fail?

Or are you part of the 10% who is ready to succeed?