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by chris on May 18, 2009
F#@% The Secret. No, seriously. F#@% it. See–a load of self help books came out. They were greeted with anything from wan interest to enthusiasm. But the Secret stands alone. Only the Secret spawned disciples. In a way that not even the Purpose Driven Life could, the Secret created legions of zombies that are innured to reason and hard work.
Ask.
Believe.
Recieve.
Easy for Oprah who put sweat equity into a 30+ year career of knowing what people want, and giving it to them (A CAR! A CAR!). But for normal people? Ask, believe, receive? And having the results of your STUFF (Oh, we wrote the chapter on F#@% materialism) be tied to your belief? Purty crazy if you ask us.
Anyone that hands you a copy of the secret is demented. Possessed of a mind that is not their own, and is not fully responsible for their actions. Hard work is the only thing that matters. Doing it yourself and being determined…not simply believing. Anyone that tells you different is selling books and going on a worldwide publicity tour.
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by chris on April 6, 2009
The people that have lost their jobs so far deserved it. Look around. Most people suck. Most people you work with can barely be counted on to fog a mirror, and we’re supposed to feel sorry for mushy entitled baby boomers because they’ve been dismissed from their bailed out, mushy entitled companies? I don’t think so. We’re at 10% unemployment right now, if that. That means, that the 10% of the most worthless and whining and stupid people currently don’t have jobs. Doesn’t that sound like a situation that would make things better for everyone?
If you were valuable to your company you would have been retained. The face saving B.S. about ‘reducing headcount,’ or ‘ensuring that we can be rightsized’ is just to keep you from taking it personally. But look: superstars are spared. Companies are DESPERATE for a bright light. And if you’re waiting in an unemployment line, you’re not a bright light.
But take heart: you DO NOT HAVE TO STAY A slug. You don’t have to be a clutterpeson. It’s a choice. Here are some questions you gotta ask yourself–and be honest with yourself because it’s probably true.
- Are you relying on your degree for your justification, or your results?
- Are you working smart and hard?
- Are you easy to get along with?
- Do you get your work done early?
- Do you look for more ways to improve?
- Do you connect and help everyone you can?
- Do you uphold a fierce standard of excellence?
If you’re not doing this stuff, and you have no job, it’s your fault. Hard workers have jobs. People looking for jobs have jobs. If you’re just sitting around and bitching about the state of the economy, waiting for a new Obama Bailout Check, then its your fault that you don’t have a job. You probably carried around the do nothing, baby boomer attitude that got you fired in the first case.
Look: we’re only at 10% unemployment. If you’ve been fired, ten you’re in the lowest 10% of results. That should be a wake-up call. You are the problem. Your efforts were miserable. You were missing some boat, and this is not a time to let your EGO talk. You were released because you weren’t particularly valuable. You were released because you were a mess. So –the question is: what are you going to do about it? Are you going to out think, out work, out hustle and out try everyone?
Or are you gonna whine like a four year old on a sugar crash?
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