"The Power to Succeed"
It’s amazing how we fool ourselves... while at the same time believing we are doing what’s best.
Let me give you an example. I overheard a guy telling a group of friends, over drinks, how he had become fed-up with work. Guys being guys, they immediately started to come up with options to fix the problem – ideas like changing company and changing jobs. That was when the guy got all logical…
‘Yeah, but I need to pay the mortgage and my kid’s education and we’ve got a holiday planned for the Bahamas and…’
I interrupted. ‘How much do you need?’
‘A hundred grand a year,’ he replied.
‘What’s more important,’ I asked, ‘your happiness or the money?’
Of course he said happiness. Then he got all logical again. ‘But I can’t be happy unless I can pay the mortgage and give my kids the best and have great holidays.’
‘How many hours do you work?’
‘Around fifty.’
‘And how do you feel when you get home?’
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Let me give you an example. I overheard a guy telling a group of friends, over drinks, how he had become fed-up with work. Guys being guys, they immediately started to come up with options to fix the problem – ideas like changing company and changing jobs. That was when the guy got all logical…
‘Yeah, but I need to pay the mortgage and my kid’s education and we’ve got a holiday planned for the Bahamas and…’
I interrupted. ‘How much do you need?’
‘A hundred grand a year,’ he replied.
‘What’s more important,’ I asked, ‘your happiness or the money?’
Of course he said happiness. Then he got all logical again. ‘But I can’t be happy unless I can pay the mortgage and give my kids the best and have great holidays.’
‘How many hours do you work?’
‘Around fifty.’
‘And how do you feel when you get home?’
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