10.26.07
Job Recidivism
Prison recidivism is the return to prison of ex-prisoners due to new offenses. It’s high. I have coined the phrase, “Job Recidivism” to describe the return to a job after people have been released to get into their own businesses. It’s also high - much higher, in fact, than prison recidivism!
Yes, most fail. MOST. 87% in the first five years, and 87% of the remaining 13% in the next five years. That’s a 98.31% recidivism rate! Scary. Well, not so scary when you understand WHY they fail and have to go find a job again - back to financial, mental, and emotional prison. See, people don’t fail in business by accident - there is always a reason why we fail and why we succeed.
There a few basic reasons why people fail in business. First, the wrong business at the wrong time. Second, wrong advice. Third, no market for the product or service. Fourth, overhead too high and sales too low = cash flow crisis. and fifth, WRONG UNDERSTANDING. That’s right. If people understood business and money better, they wouldn’t put themselves in a position to fail! They would plan correctly, get the right advice, remove risk and the necessity to sell, and spread their income sources. And they would have the right attitude towards money and business.
In the library the other day, I saw a children’s book called, “How to Clone Sheep”. Honestly. Well, sheep should not get into business, and you should not take advice from a sheep. Sheep have jobs. They play hooky, brown-nose their bosses, compromise their values and believe in fairies. Well, not quite, but anyone who thinks he has job security might as well believe in fairies. You clone sheep by sending them to a university they get taught by academic sheep to get an MBA or a marketing degree. Sheep are cloned by mystics, collectivists, school teachers and socialists. They abhor personal responsibility, accountability, and freedom, and they yearn to be controlled. Sheep should not get into business any more than a person with arachnophobia should start a spider day care. But I digress.
Here’s the bottom line: whether you already have a business or if you’re thinking of escaping that prison that you call a job, you need the RIGHT UNDERSTANDING so that you make the right choices and understand what business is really all about. If you know how to remove the risk and make an unlimited amount of money, and if you can put a superb support system in place that doesn’t contain sheep, you will succeed.
The transition from sheep to successful entrepreneur is not an easy one. When I studied psychology and theology (only to discover that I was in a cult!) I took special note of cults, group dynamics, and brainwashing. Did you know that there are people who specialize in rescuing people from cults and then reprogramming them? Fascinating reading. Sheep employees need reprogramming in order to avoid recidivism. You may not realize it, but there are a number of people out there who have sharp butchers knives and they love mutton. They put on the disguise of bank managers, university profs and seminar leaders. They have a vested interest in your failure in business, believe it or not. And they are always very friendly. They’re huggers. They call you “buddy” and smile a lot. But that is for another article.
Give yourself a quick check-up from the neck up: Do you understand business? Your circumstances will tell you if you do or if you don’t. If you can run your busines from anywhere in the world with one hour a day, with no risk, 100% profit, and unlimited potential for growth, I can’t teach you a thing. If not, you might want to visit www.DollarMakers.com
Robin J. Elliott
