I Need Some Guidence and Direction! Please!

Hey Tom,

If you don't like working it means you are doing the wrong thing. You should LOVE working and look forward to it.

Maybe you should switch what you are doing and see if you can make money helping people, since you seem to like that and be good at it.

What do you think?

Sara

You know what, Tom, there's a few things about this post of years which are very unattractive.

Let me go through the ones which stand out to me.

This should make you happy as these guys may just end up remembering you if/when they make it big.

If this is the case, why aren't you researching the products before promoting them?

Why would you sell something you know nothing about?

You don't always have to use everything, but at least find out what others think about it.

That's exactly what people are doing right HERE.

This is a forum and a lot of people are making good use of it.

If that's true why are you moaning about it?

It's horrible?

Man, that is some serious envy.

I've helped people out here who are already earning a lot more than I am... so what?

So your problem really is that your lazy?

Whose fault is that?

Take some action and make yourself accountable...

And get off your arse and do some work.

Oh, btw, hope that helps.

Hi Tom,

That's a very thoughtful post.

I've told this before but maybe you haven't heard it.

I was a carpet cleaner for about 20 years. I probably cleaned more rooms of carpet than any other carpet cleaner in the world, ever. I really mean that. And I probably made less money than most carpet cleaners. Now, mind you, I'm not complaining, just stating the facts.

You see, one day when I was out looking for carpets to clean I ran across a delightful Inn Keeper by the name of Mr. Patel. Mr. Patel was so nice, he was the type of guy who you would like to work for. I charged $20 a room to clean carpets and Mr. Patel haggled me down to $10 a room. However he had 50 rooms at his motel instead of the usual 5 or 6 so quickly doing the math I realized with rooms right next to each other I could knock them out really fast and make up for the low price by cleaning more rooms. Not bad back in the 70s I worked for two days and made $500.

Then Mr. Patel introduced me to his friend Mr. Patel. Now, Mister Patel saw I was working for $10 a room so he considered it his God given duty to haggle me down to $9 a room, but, he had 100 rooms for me so I took the Job.

Cut to 10 Mr. Patels later and I'm working for $7 a room. Now, 7 must have been the magic number because 100 Mr. Patels later I was still working for $7 a room.

Now, up till now I haven't even gotten to the real point of this story sorry.

Cleaning 10 - 20 rooms a day gives one a chance to really get fast and good at carpet cleaning. I was the best and the fastest, I had to be to make any money at $7 a room.

One day a man approached me, he explained that he was on welfare and he had to get some training to get a job. He explained that there was a government agency that would pay me to teach him how to clean carpets. Long story short (too late) I trained this man to clean carpets and the Government paid me pretty good money to do so.

Now cut to a year later. I met the man and he was driving a new van and had new carpet cleaning equipment, both the van and the equipment were much better than mine.

We went for coffee and the subject turned to how much he was making. He was making about 4 times more than I was making and I felt both happy and sad at the same time. Happy that my student was doing well and sad that I wasn't doing as well as my student.

Now, before I could get a chance to revel in the fact that my excellent teaching had taught this man to fish rather than giving him a fish, the conversation continued.

I asked him how much he was charging and who he was working for. He told me he never took a job that didn't at least pay him a few hundred a night and his customers included, THE Brown Derby (the real one long since closed) and the Princess Louise (a cruise ship turned into a restaurant) and many other very well known Hotels and restaurants.

I exclaimed. You can't work for those companies, you have to start at the bottom and work up to those kind of high class accounts.

His words echo in my head to this day.

He said. "Oh, you didn't teach me that."

See, I didn't teach him that and so he didn't believe it. On the other hand My teacher taught me I had to work for $20 a room and I ended up working for $7 a room.

So why the long story. Because I like to tell long stories! And,

Because YOU with what you know and have already done and have proved it works by teaching others how, can now go as high as you believe you can.

Network, JV, Get mentors whatever but no matter what else you do you already have everything you need to MAKE IT BIG. You just have to believe you can do it. At least don't believe that you can't do it.

George Wright

Tom,

Check out ether.com and then build your own ether.com using paypal and Google Voice.

George Wright

Coaching and consultancies also pay a lot, so why not try those avenues of IM?

Tom if you are helping people and then saying that the products you promote are scams what are you teaching people? If you teach them how to avoid things which are scams, why not put that advice into practice.

It does sound like jealousy, because you think it is horrible someone is at the same level as you. Think about what you said for a moment, and then ask why anyone would want to brainstorm or help you if you are not going to be happy to help others. I know you said you are happy, but the truth is the people who have become successful with your help will read exactly what you said about them....... and you finish the rest off.

George you can do that with skype, you can get paid to answer questions and help people in skype as well.

Hey Tom, I've recorded a 2.5 second MP3 that you may want to download. You can keep it on your desktop, and every time you start feeling those old "doubt habits" (because habits is all they are), you can click on it and hear a friendly voice tell you "shut up and stop over complicating things."

I've even made you several different versions so you can enjoy some vocal variety. And it'd be my pleasure to send it to you - no charge - just tell me where.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

What about joining the "War Room" forum here! It is $39 for lifetime membership. From what I understand there are many of the successful IMers that will answer your questions and more. I can't post links yet but I think the link is on many pages throughout this site. The sales page gives lots of info.

OMG! You must have pushed some wave links out there in space this morning.

I started an article (hoping to put it into an autoresponder series) that ended up talking about your sitiuation.

In the title, I started it out as "The "Big Build My Future" Mentality" but after the first paragraph it revloved into explanning exactly what you are talking about.

Now...I have to striaghten it out cuz it's really reads as two intirely different prospectives.

George, I should buy you a beer, record your wonderful long stories and sell them as inspirational v-books! (v being voice - audio).