The Silent Avatar Speaks

Those readers who subscribe to my blog (and BIG thank you to you all) will know I have been reading The 4 Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris.

I wouldn’t say the book is full of “aha!” moments. In fact if you’re on the Internet Marketing road you will already have some parts of Timothy’s blueprint to being one of the NR (New Rich).

Today I would like to give you a snapshot on the mistakes the NR can make.

If you’ve been in the working world for any length of time, you are going to have to go against your (learnt) impulses to get out from where you are. It’s recognising these impulses, and where they fit into the scheme of the New Rich that will best serve you to keep yourself on track.

Here’s the impulses you will be working against to become one of the NR (New Rich). If you continue to do these you are doomed to fail in your quest for being one of the New Rich.

1. Getting bogged down in the day to day dealings of life you lose sight of your goal to become one of the NR and end up working for work’s sake.
2. You love to micromanage and just love your emails.  You like to keep control of situations, rarely delegate responsibility (after all – no one does the job as well as you do), and insist that all decisions are passed by you for your approval.
3. You tend to tackle things that others (who are more knowledgeable, and better equipped to handle) can do. You thrive on problem solving and get a “kick” from being the one that “handled the problem or task”.
4. On the rare occasions you do allow others to handle a task, you are constantly inputting your ideas or opinions on how the task should be handled.
5. You use your time on pursuing unqualified customers, or international prospects when you have enough cash flow to finance your non financial pursuits.
6. You answer emails that won’t result in a sale when a comprehensive FAQ or an auto-responder to do the job instead.
7. You work where you live. Work and home have become one – there is no escape.
8. You know the 80/20 rule but have forgotten to apply it to your business and personal life every two to four weeks.
9. Your a perfectionist. You fail to recognise this is another “work for works sake” excuse. You are never satisfied with good or good enough.
10. You are a drama queen. Small problems get blown out of proportion as an excuse to work.
11. You upscale non urgent issues to urgent in order to justify work.
12. You know that you are in a rut, know that what you are doing is not the be all and end all of your existence, but you just don’t know how to get out of it. You cannot find meaning to your life.
13. You have few friends, no hobbies, and rarely go out. You live for your work. Social life? What social life?

Do you have any of these impulses which are keeping you from being one of the New Rich(NR)?

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