Rich Dad Poor Dadfalling, and toilets are breaking!” So they avoid their don’t-wants, but
they pay a huge price. They may never get what they want in life.
Instead of analyzing, their inner Chicken Little closes their mind.
Rich dad gave me a way of looking at Chicken Little. “Just do what
Colonel Sanders did.” At the age of 66, he lost his business and began
to live on his Social Security check. It wasn’t enough. He went around
the country selling his recipe for fried chicken. He was turned down
1,009 times before someone said yes. And he went on to become a
multimillionaire at an age when most people are quitting. “He was a
brave and tenacious man,” rich dad said of Harlan Sanders.
So when you’re in doubt and feeling a little afraid, just do what
Colonel Sanders did to his little chicken. He fried it.
Overcoming Laziness
Busy people are often the most lazy. We have all heard stories of a
businessman who works hard to earn money. He works hard to be a
good provider for his wife and children. He spends long hours at the
office and brings work home on weekends. One day he comes home
to an empty house. His wife has left with the kids. He knew he and
his wife had problems, but rather than work to make the relationship
strong, he stayed busy at work. Dismayed, his performance at work
slips and he loses his job.
Today, I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their
wealth. And there are people too busy to take care of their health. The
cause is the same. They’re busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding
something they do not want to face. Nobody has to tell them. Deep
down they know. In fact, if you remind them, they often respond with
anger or irritation.
If they aren’t busy at work or with the kids, they’re often busy
watching TV, fishing, playing golf, or shopping. Yet deep down
they know they are avoiding something important. That’s the most
common form of laziness: laziness by staying busy.
So what is the cure for laziness? The answer is—a little greed.
For many of us, we were raised thinking of greed or desire as bad.
“Greedy people are bad people,” my mom used to say. Yet we all have
inside of us this yearning to have nice, new, or exciting things.