Who cares? It doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty. The only thing that matters is whether it quenches your thirst. In other words, does it work?
There are literally thousands of motivational speakers spouting ridiculous platitudes that do nothing more than make you feel good for the moment and have very little lasting effect. They sound good, but they don’t work. Let me prove it to you. I bet you’ve heard these lines:
“As long as you have a good, positive attitude everything will be all right.” Sorry, but that is a lie. I’ve had a positive attitude my entire life and had plenty of crap happen to me. So get a little negative. Get sick of the way things are so you will take action to change things. Get fed up; realize you deserve better and that you aren’t going to be satisfied with anything less than the best for yourself and your family. Remember: You have to get negative about your life before you can take positive action in your life.
“You can be whatever you want to be, do whatever you want to do and have whatever you want to have.” More lies. You can’t be whatever you want to be or do whatever you want to do. If you are short, fat and ugly, that supermodel thing probably isn’t going to work out for you. You can do what you have the talent for and are willing to dedicate the time and effort into becoming based on your innate potential. You can always do more than you think you can but you can’t do anything. And you certainly can’t have whatever you want. You can have whatever you believe you deserve and whatever you take action toward achieving, utilizing your abilities, your thoughts and your words.
“There are no problems, only opportunities.” This one is not only a lie – it’s just stupid. I have problems. Period. I bet you do too. And I find it insulting when someone tells me otherwise. Sometimes, there is no way to dress up the problem and call it an opportunity. Instead, face the problem. Acknowledge the problem for what it is. Then circle the wagons and tackle the problem head on.
My point? Be careful what you buy into and act upon. When you hear something, make sure it makes good sense, and then try it. If it works, run with it. If it doesn’t work, dump it and run from it.
Face it, Larry, the glass-half-full analogy doesn’t work anyway because the glass is always all-full – half full of water and half full of air!
Your last paragraph – true words. Very true. Thanks for the reminder. 🙂
Larry:
I love your straight forward no B.S. approach!
You tell it the way it really is.
Just found out about your blog and already enjoying it.
Hey Larry, love your show.
Your last episode with the 30 year old man/boy and his toys was really depressing. You could actually see the fear and desperation in his eyes. Reality finally bit him in the rear and like you said, there is nothing you could do but hope for the best.
With so many homeowner/speculators about to go under water with their exploding ARMs, is there any way you can profile more of these people? Some of these sellers need to realize they have to lower their crazy asking prices to before the bubble years. So many are either apathetic, clueless, brainwashed by listening to the lies of the NAR mouth pieces, or living in la la land.
I doubt there will be a correction quick enough before more and more slowly bleed under this false sense of optimism. So much noise I tell you.
You are a great voice of reality among the bullish dreamers. Keep it up man… and please… be more hash! Scream a little more!
Amen is all I have to say. I’ve been preaching this same thing since my teens and keep being told I am just not POSITIVE enough. Please! Of my friends, who has no credit card debt, car payment and a paid off house? ME! To &)(*&()& with their positive attitude. Just get up and go to work!