4 Months After XFactor Method

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Haha. Seriously, I think I understand you.

Many of us could do with a little more motivation, and increased productivity levels. Nothing does that quite like reading the excited success story of someone else. But in every thread, the same survival mechanism that tries to keep you alive in dangerous situations seems to kick in, when other people, in effect, try to warn you about the dangers you cannot see or didn't think about.

But honestly, many people have the tendency to be less than truthful or make outlandish exaggerations sometimes.

How do you know the person who posts the original story isn't making stuff up? You don't, in most cases. Either believe or don't believe, no-one else change that.

How do you know whether the people trying to deter you are making false claims or trying to pass off their guesswork and hunches as fact? Do they even believe they know because of first-hand experience, or because of hearsay and a tendency to repeat - in a chinese whispery sort of way - what they've heard from someone else.

I don't know everything, but I do know this...

- Without action towards accomplishing something, you're almost guaranteed never to accomplish it. Chances are good, if you do nothing, you get nothing. Period.

- Some people who you think might be trying to help you with "good advice" along the way, may be feeding you advice that is not helpful towards you at all. Believe it or not, this applies to gurus too (people whose every word you'd likely hang on, because after all, they must know; they've done it), who may mistakingly attribute their success to the strangest and most ridiculous things. What I'm saying is, even lots of experts don't know what it is that make them successful at something when others fail. A person who is a success in one area does not necessarily make for a good teacher in that area.

- Some people may try - intentionally or unintentionally - to dissuade you from doing something because they had a bad experience with it themselves. The conclusion they've drawn is that it's illegal, immoral, frowned-upon, or whatever. In some cases they may be right; in some cases they might've made mistakes that they themselves don't see or don't care to admit, and that is the real reason they failed. Some people don't like to admit their mistakes, and some people just never see them. But if there's one thing people hate more is seeing others have success in an area they once failed in. If nothing else, that is their motivation to chime in and attempt to dissuade you. Perhaps not becuse they care about you losing out but because they don't want to hear of anyone else defeating them.

So what do you do?

1) Do nothing; achieve nothing.

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2) Take other peoples advice as concrete, either to take action in certain way or dont do something at all. You may be successful or you may fail. If you fail, are you happy to feel that your failure was out of your own hands? If you are, you're probably a weak-minded person who cannot and will not ever take responsibility for your own actions, successes and failures. Business isn't for you; go get a job!

- or -

3) Are you going to step up the plate and carve your own path? Make your own decisions, and be fully accountable for your successes and your failures? Look, it'd be stupid to be ignorant to what everyone has to say because there's always more to learn, but you must choose what you're going to act on, what will paralyze your efforts, and what you're going to let slide.

Do or don't do. If you want it bad enough, making mistakes won't deter you from ever being successful. You'll stand right back up, hone your approch, change your plan, and try again.

If you don't take action - particularly because of fears instilled within you by someone else whose warnings may possibly not even hold any salt - then you probably don't want something bad enough.

If our life is really going to be ours, we need to start calling the shots ourselves.