Do You Like Being a Sheep?
Filed under Do What You Love Tips by Frederic Patenaude
I’m at a seminar this week in Panama, and I’ve been meeting great people so far. In fact, last night I had one of the most interesting conversations of my life with a 747 pilot from Canada and his wife. We talked about liberty, about the failure of socialism, about entrepreneurship, and I would say mainly about the “anti-sheep mentality.”
I don’t know if you realize this, but most people are like sheep.
They actually like to be told what to do, in every circumstance of their lives — and if possible by the government or by the popular culture.
Don’t believe me? Then try to notice every time people say “What are THEY are going to do about it?”
Any time something happens, nobody wants to take the blame, and nobody wants to think for themselves. They want to be told what to do.
The sheep, have no morality, so they want to be told what’s “right” and “wrong.”
The sheep have no understanding that their body is self-healing so they are putting it through every form of abuse, with the hope that if they ever get sick “doctors” are going to heal them.
The sheep live beyond their means, engage in conspicuous consumption to catch up with the Jones’, and count on the government or their pension funds to take care of themselves when they get older!
In every case, they give their power of choice away to a doctor… a government or their neighbors.
Want to know why we’ve seen so many dictators in history? Just watch people. They’re the ones who put them in place, in many cases.
Want to know why charismatic leaders always gain the popular favor? Because the sheep have so self-esteem.
Want to know why politicians can get away with making promises they will never keep? Because the sheep have no memory.
Do you like being a sheep?
Actually, if you’re reading this, chances are that you consider yourself to be a bit of a “black” sheep. A wacko… a freak!
If so, welcome to the club! Us freaks who dare to think are the only ones who can change the world.
So what’s the sheep mentality when it comes to work?
You’ve heard it before: get a good job, work from 9 to 5, hopefully get a pension plan and then work as hard as possible, give up the best years of your life in the hope you’ll be able to retire as early as possible and enjoy life sipping coconut drinks on a beach. Play the lottery in the meantime.
The sheep generally have a dis-taste for entrepreneurship (“it’s not going to work”), for rich people (“they steal from the poor”) and they resent marketing in general (“salesmen are crooks!”)
They’ve been bred into thinking that they have to find a “job” and work for someone else (big mistake) and that trying to live from your passion is for hippies and losers (or that it’s not “practical”).
Here’s the key to succeed making a living doing what you love:
1- First, get out of the sheep mentality before it’s too late.
2- Start an Internet business on the side. Put as many hours as possible on it, but do it regularly.
3- Focus first on being able to generate enough revenues so you can quit your day-job. Don’t kill your current cow until you have another source of nourishment!
4- Stop hanging out with sheep too often. Find entrepreneurs and other people who think like you, and spend more time with them.
5- Stop doing sheep-stuff in your free time. Watching TV is a first thing that comes to mind. There are other time-waster and brain-washers you should avoid. I think you know what they are already.
Here are some books and resources that you also need to get and use:
1- Read the book “the E-Myth” by Michael Gerber. This will give you a good overview of what’s a true entrepreneurial mentality.
2- Read the book “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss, and get excited about the possibilities.
3- Read the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen, to know how to organize your time for maximum productivity.
Finally, I also highly recommend that you subscribe to my “Do What You Love Success Group”.
This is a membership program that I started over one year ago that is going strong and growing!
I publish a monthly, printed and mailed newsletter for our members called the “Do What You Love Newsletter”, where you’ll find all of my latest discoveries and inside information to succeed on the Internet and making a living doing what you love.
We also produce monthly training videos, and we also have phone meetings and teleseminars, as well as a content-rich discussion forums for our members only, where you can ask us any question you want, and meet fellow “freaks” who make a living doing what they love or are in the process of doing it.
If you sign up before tomorrow, you will receive our April issue which is all about creating an online business which could be almost completely automated! I’m sharing with you *one* technique that has allowed me to go from working 50+ hours a week on my current “raw food” Internet business to being able to work only about 5 hours a week on it and get the same results.
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Yours for success,
Frederic
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