The reason you don't succeed is because you are too comfortable.
Recently I came across a classic example of a person not succeeding because he was too comfortable, and then through necessity, turning it all around.
The young man's parents were getting on in years, and were moving out of the city to retire in the country, while the young man had to stay and finish his higher education.
His mother did everything for him, and provided him with the necessities of life, but not an extravagant lifestyle by any means.
When I saw her recently, she was so happy that her son had finally got motivated. He had got himself a job, had been learning to wash and iron clothes, and learning how to cook some basic dishes.
She couldn't see the reason for the sudden turn around in his attitude and fortunes, but really its a classic case of 'the stomach and the backbone'.
To paraphrase Newton and Zig Ziglar - "A person at rest will remain at rest until his stomach hits his back bone!"
In this case, the young man was smart enough to get moving before the crunch came, and luckily he had a lot of encouragement from his friends.
The crunch could come in many forms. A financial setback, losing your job, a stock market crash, losing a partner, a heart attack, etc.
The key here is to look far enough ahead and visualise what might happen if you don't take action now, attach so much pain to that event, and then start taking actions to avoid the inevitable.
To your success,
Trevor Long
