This morning, while the make-up artist desperately tried to improve my ugly face for the nervous TV cameras, I heard an interesting story from a woman who was hugging a clipboard and a stopwatch and getting information about the Five Myths I was about to reveal on Breakfast TV.
My seminar, “How to Find the Man of Your Dreams and Marry Him in Six Months”, always gets me radio and TV time; it’s controversial.
Seems this woman has a friend who morphs into exactly what prospective suitors want in order to drag them to the altar. Like a chameleon, she “becomes” what they want, in one case even converting to Judaism and pretending to be the real thang.
(I love Jews, and my opinion, you can’t become Jewish – you either are or you’re not, though many don’t agree with me. But I digress.) Naturally, after a while, the mask slips, and her deceived husbands divorce her. Evidently this happens regularly for this woman, but she keeps repeating the charade.
Life Is About Being Happy
Sounds familiar? Like the fat woman who grows her hair and loses weight for the wedding, and then she cuts her hair, loads on the lard again, and wonders why hubby loses interest. Men do the same thing, of course.
But this isn’t about getting married; it’s about being happy. How happy can this woman be who thinks she has to be false and deceptive in order to land the big fish? Living a lie – a refined kind of prostitution – mercenary behavior won’t make us happy.
Steven Covey taught that we need to live according to our values in order to be happy.
We Have to be Real to be Really Happy
Doing a job you hate and smiling at a dimwitted boss, bowing and scraping, genuflecting and licking muddy boots, and dealing with people you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole had you the choice doesn’t bode well for inner peace and joy.
I know we often don’t believe we have a choice in the matter; after all, we need the money, don’t we?
We have to do what it takes, and money accounts for the resolution of 97% of our problems, makes dreams come true, and at the very least allows us to “suffer in comfort.”
You Have A Choice!
Fact is, if you did what you really loved and believed in:
- You’d be really good at it,
- Enjoy it,
- Be much more productive,
- And stand to make real money,
- instead of the slave wage you gratefully accept in cupped hands, while lying awake every night hoping you won’t be the next one to be “downsized” or replaced by someone half your age with less brain cells than a Twinkie.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? More money and happy earning it?
You Can Make Lots of Money and Be Happy
The good news is that you don’t have to:
- Bend over for some slimy sycophant who skips around posing as a manager.
- Accept bad treatment, long work hours, commuting with smelly members of the rat race, and painful separation from your loved ones as your kids are parented by people who shouldn’t be allowed to raise pet vipers.
- Shop in Thrift Stores or miss your daughter’s ballet, hide from creditors, or sacrifice your values and standards on the decaying altar of a job.
I found this out the hard way – it took me 32 years as an unhappy employee to realize that I could make lots of money working for myself, without compromise, frustration, scarcity, and falsehood.
You Can Hold Your Head High
I created DollarMakers to provide people with the opportunity to create financial freedom without concession – you can hold your head high and tell it like it is – you can be yourself, not an actor or a fall guy for some jerk who thinks she owns you because she pays you a little money every month.
You can be a great role model of integrity for your family, and you can work on your own time, and on your own terms.
Happily married people didn’t get that way with lies and distortion – they found people who loved them for who they were.
“I yam what I yam” works for me – and people can take it or leave it.
If you want the freedom, pride, and peace of mind that comes with creating your own financial future on your own terms, DollarMakers has the answers for you. You don’t need a job, and you don’t need to pose and pretend. And I don’t need makeup – “I yam what I yam”.
