Survive A Weak Economy
Posted: Tuesday, June 09, 2009
by Drawk Kwast
Drawk Kwast Alpha Male Lifestyle Design
Say of me what you like... I never pay any attention to the news.
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One of the biggest problems created by paying attention to the news is that people tend to believe what is being said. What I am talking about here is the power of suggestion. The number one reason companies spend huge budgets on TV advertisements, because they work. If you sit a test group of people in front of a TV set for long enough and keep on telling them the news that "the economy is collapsing," they actually start to believe it. Sooner or later, that belief will be seen in their performance at work. If you keep on telling a person who sells widgets that people just don't have any money to spend on widgets these days, sooner or later, that salesman will start to believe it. When he does, that belief will become a self fulfilling prophecy as he begins to give up and accept what he now believes. As that salesman gets a smaller and smaller paycheck, he has less money to spend with his local butcher. When the butcher asks the salesman why he is buying less meat, the salesman will reply by saying, "the economy is going down hill fast." The butcher will tend to believe the salesman as he tells of his slumping sales. The butcher has good reason to because he isn't selling as much meat to the salesman. The butcher with less money in his cash register and a catchy story to tell will spread this to the remainder of the city.
So what am I saying here? There is no recession and times are great? Nope. I pay the same unhappy prices at the gas pump and grocery store that you do. What I am telling here you is that you will never win the game by rolling over and playing dead. That only makes things worse. Successful people know that the best time to make moves is when the economy is in the toilet.
There is way too much competition when the economy is going up and everyone has the strength to do anything. It's when times are hard, when 95% of the competition has given up, that's the time to make your moves.
Consider the butcher from my above example. If the economy "goes sourer" in his town and all of his competition gives up and closes, who has all the business when the economy inevitably gets better? He does. No matter how bad things get, the economy always goes back up, as soon as people start buying more meat again, they will be buying all of it from him. Sure, as the economy continues to get better, other people will open butcher shops and compete for that business, but the advantage is always to the first person with an open store and existing customers.
Watch the news if you must, but know that not all are suffering economic hardship at this time. I know many, including myself, who are making more money month after month as everyone else is telling us how bad things are, and I just laugh at them. We know how to ride the changes. We know that change however it comes presents opportunity. Most importantly, we know that it will be us who will be in the best position to ride the next wave of change when things get better.
Rather than giving up, you need to ask yourself where you want to be when the economy changes. Then figure out how to move in that direction. The closer you can get to that today, the quicker you'll get there tomorrow. The most advantageous time to invest resources is when your competition won't. If you would like to learn more on how you can stack the deck in your favor right now, you can download my free eBook at the below web-link and start learning today.
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Drawk Kwast is a life coach. His methods are unconventional, and he makes no apologies as he tells you how to dominate the competition at work, attract the most desirable women on the planet, and ultimately achieve a fulfilling life.
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