9.16.07
One column a week for a whole new you!
by Matt Worley

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Has your life changed for the better yet? Are you more successful, richer and in better shape yet? Have you followed all the rules?

People who hock these programs are always telling the people who want to be better (whatever that better might be) that they are doing this for altruistic reasons. They have made their lives so much better, it's just natural for them to want to tell everyone how to be as successful as they are. And, well, they should make some money to back up their claims of success.

When I was in college a guy from my home town gathered a group of us (we were all living in the dorms at the time, mostly surviving off money we'd saved up or got from our parents) at a coffee shop to tell us how we could easily make money to get through college and be successful. Just like him! Y'know, this guy who was trying to con college students in a cheap coffee shop.

He talked about pyramids and statistical analysis and the power of positive thinking and how his life was about to turn around and how this guy in Amarillo made a shitload of money on pay phones. And then he told us about selling Amway.

And how, even if we never got a lot of people under us in the pyramid (you make more money if more people under you make money), we would still "make" money by using Amway products because they were cheaper than brand name products.

I'm not sure, but I think we had to pay for the drinks we had at the coffee shop.

We'd all love to win the lottery, but we won't. And these are the lotteries, the holy grails, and the last refuges of the hopeless.

Most people succeed with time. It takes a while to get to where they are successes. And it's the hard work that gets them there (or, y'know, they were born with a lot of money). Believing in themselves. Believing it can be done.

So, in a way, all of these product hockers are telling you the truth. But you don't need to buy their crap to get this benefit.

That's the secret they will tell you. It's the secret of every belief system out there. It's the secret of The Secret (the number one non-fiction book out there).

You have to believe you can do it. Then you have to do the hard work to get it done. And you should probably realize you can't sell sand in a desert.

Of course, a little luck ain't bad either.


Matt Worley believes he'll get somewhere if he keeps putting one foot in front of the other.


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