Thread: I'm a loser and want to change my life.

Look at your family and wife. As long as you have that and they are healthy and happy with you then you are a winner in life by a long shot.

You are able to live in a home, drive a car, and support you self by a means in society. You have already won...

To make more money: Pick up a second job. Cut costs.

Unless you are handicapped i.e. blind, deaf, etc. or homeless... you shouldn't be complaining. Be ecstatic that everyday you wake up... you and your family are healthy (I sincerely hope this is the case).

In a nutshell.
-Attitude needs to change
-Cut costs and pay when you HAVE the money. Avoid extras.
-Learn from your mistakes.
-Be goal-oriented.

Layout a plan for your future, maybe go back to school and enter a growing field in todays market. (electronics, med??)

Planning is KEY to anything, no matter how small.

You are just at the beginning stages of your life, you have to treat life and business like riding a bicycle, look ahead not in front or you'll fall. First change your attitude, it's not about money it's about being happy. There is always opportunities, extra hard work will get you there. Just go after it, no one will give it to you. But I promise you will look back someday and pay any price to be with your loved ones.

please don't listen to glenn beck. He is a f-ing idiot.

Originally Posted by kitchen415

please don't listen to glenn beck. He is a f-ing idiot.

I dont listen to him but thats your stance? maybe you should tell the OP why you feel this way when the guys net worth is like 65 Million.

In all honesty you're not a loser, you just feel under appreciated !

I was probably in that rut when I was about 18 of all ages, not married but didn't see a future at Wells Fargo Bank... so I moved and went to college somewhere else... found out that moving was the best thing I had ever done. It totally changed my perspective; seeing how others outside of San Francisco live, meeting new friends that allowed me to grow as a person. Of course moving into Silicon Valley in 1984 had a big part in how my life would change as well.

The home of high-tech has so many stories of those that just started doing something in a garage or home and years later blossomed into H-P, Google, Yahoo, etc.... but none of the founders did it for fame and fortune... they just wanted to do something they LOVED.

Below is a commencement speech given by Steve Jobs at Stanford Univ. - try not to let the Chinese characters bother you but listen to him. I just heard this yesterday after my brother sent it to me and I've book marked it now because I found his stories profound and enlightening... funny though, like him, I took calligraphy and never finished college but obviously, he accomplished a lot more!!!!

With a post like this, an attitude like that and no optimism in life, yes you are a loser.

Grow some balls, appreciate your wife and child, be grateful for what you have, because guess what? You are better off than millions of people around the world.

Want change, heres a good quote.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

First of all, there are some amazing posts in this thread and I hope you've found some inspiration and motivation getting through every one of those. As for Glenn Beck, I didn't know him before, but watched a weird documentary about the holocaust after reading about him in this thread. Majoring in History, it just felt like a horrible waste of time for me, since there there was so much BS presented. Or at least how they presented it and what they tried to bring across.

Originally Posted by stevefromtheham

Nothing wrong with Glen Beck, or John Maxwell, or Anthony Robbins, or Robert Kywasaki, or Jack Canfield, or RevRun or hell even Oprah...anybody is better than having a "I suck" attitude.

The difference between winners and losers is a winner just kept losing till he won...period. Show me a successful person and I will bet all of my money they have lost a number of times before winning big...sometimes lost again and had to repeat the process.

I started my business with only what I made waiting tables each night in my pocket, no savings, bad credit from a failed marriage and pushed and worked my way up from there.

Thanks so much for that post and I have to agree. I'm as far away as one could be from being successful and there were quite a few times when I thought about quitting my studies due to financial problems and such. I also stopped thinking about possible ventures, since not one took off or got over the point of even being started. But as mentioned above, everyone of those who actually succeeded failed before they made their first million and that's basically what keeps me going and what separates those who are successful from those who aren't. Please just don't stop and start believing in yourself, trying to focus on what you want to achieve. It might take not one year, but several years and there might be some failure and frustration in between, but you'll make it eventually. This forum is the best example and sure one hell of a daily motivation for me. Seeing what some of these members have achieved keeps me going. I personally wanted to quit one venture, delay another and end the latest one after a shit load of setbacks, I decided to stick to it. The funny thing is, now it seems as every one of these ventures might get started within this year and hopefully take off as well. But in case one or maybe even all won't, I'll still keep on trying so that one day I might be able to start my own thread in here about having Platinum working on my recently acquired Maybach 57s.