Be Honest With Yourself
Telling lies is never a good thing. It’s especially bad when you do it in business. One lie can completely ruin your business image –your very brand that you work so hard to make look perfect. But
there is one lie that it’s even worse, and that is lying to yourself. You need to always be honest with yourself and here’s why.
First of all, when you start lying to yourself you’re setting yourself up for failure. Success and failure live only in reality. And that reality can be very harsh if you aren’t living in it. If you’re going around lying to yourself then you will fail. It’s just that simple.
Secondly, when you lie to yourself you are missing out on an opportunity. You are stopping yourself from facing reality and then you are causing yourself to follow a path that will not lead to anything good. Instead, if you were honest with yourself, then you could tackle whatever is in front of you and you could find a way to move on and be better because of it.
But what exactly is meant by lying to yourself? What does that even mean?
Well, most often (in the business world) it’s telling yourself that you can do something that you can’t. It’s telling yourself that you’ll be okay when you know you won’t. It’s dreaming that you’ll succeed when you know you aren’t willing to put in the necessary work.
For example, an acquaintance of mine is always saying how he’s going to be rich and he then goes on to say all the things he’ll do for everyone. Yet he sits at home everyday and does nothing to become successful. He is lying to himself saying that he’ll suddenly just become successful. If he would just start telling himself the truth then he might be horrified enough at what his future looks like to go out and actually start working hard to succeed.
Another example is all the people who jump into Internet Marketing thinking they’ll get rich. Sure, they’re willing to do a little work but they know, deep in their mind, that they won’t do everything it takes to make it. But they lie and convince themselves that they will and they proceed to try many things that only lose them money. If they would just admit the truth then they might really change their ways or they might not ever waste their time with IM in the first place.
Yes, this sounds a little harsh and it is. Look, many IMers market products to newbies selling them this lie. You need to understand this and you need to be honest with yourself starting right now. “The truth will set you free.†Don’t think that this saying only applies to people who are in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. This applies to you and to me too. Be honest with yourself and you
will truly achieve success.
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Harsh, nothin’ . . . nice post!
It certainly has been my experience that lying to themselves has been one of the primary reasons for failure to build a network marketing business. The industry if often accused of being a get rich quick scheme. Most of the businesses are very legitimate. It’s the people who sign-up and are not willing to do the work, or who have been lied to about the amount the effort that it takes that gives the industry a bad name.
Hi Ken,
As always, I really like your direct and to the point way of putting things.
I do see this lying to one’s self all around me with people I know and aquaintences at work.
The results always speak for themselves – the self liars are always living a static life. It’s unfortunate really, especially in this worlds of opportunity.