03.25.08
How Badly Do You Want to Reach Your Goals? A South African, a Cuban, and Mexicans
On the news this morning I heard about a Cuban man who has tried to get into the US twenty-eight times, risking his life every time. He has seen many others die in the process. This is nothing new. Mexicans die every day trying to reach their objective of starting a new life in the US. These brave people literally risk their lives to achieve their goals. They are fully aware of the risk. How motivated are YOU to reach your goals?
Six years ago, a woman sent me an e mail from South Africa (the situation there is far worse than either Mexico or Cuba, and it deteriorates daily.) Her husband had lost his job and couldn’t get another one due to affirmative action, she had been mugged three times, and their teenage daughters were being harassed and exposed to the risk of rape every day on their way to school. They saw their community falling to pieces around them as violence and crime escalated out of control, and they were in financial difficulties. They decided to immigrate to Canada, but they didn’t have enough money, so they were declined. The only way out was more money, so her husband left her a suicide note and blew his head off with a shotgun so that there would be enough life insurance money for them to immigrate to Canada and save themselves. The ultimate sacrifice.
These are perhaps extreme examples, but they are happening every day. If you live in North America or the UK, you have absolutely no reason not to get rich and make all your dreams come true. We are surrounded by freedom, abundance, safety, opportunity, and ease. Perhaps that’s why so many are obese, lazy, pathetic, weak, smoking complainers. Recently an American toddler was CRUSHED by an obese relative. Our biggest challenge is the Starbucks lineup or finding a parking space at the mall. Other people risk their lives for what we have.
Do you suppose someone who has risked their lives to immigrate will be a hard worker and highly motivated? Better than some loser who is only interested in benefits and smoke breaks, methinks. If we want to seriously stimulate the economies in Canada and the US, we should open the borders to South Africans, Mexicans, and Cubans. They know how to work. But that would be a major threat to the lazy majority, so it won’t happen. The only people complaining about outsourcing to foreign countries and begging to seal the borders are those who don’t see the wonderful entrepreneurial opportunities all around them. Why work in a factory or a job when you can get rich and enjoy the best in the world? But then you would have to risk, take responsibility, and work, like those Mexicans that some so easily mock.
Give yourself a check-up from the neck up. How motivated are YOU? You will succeed in direct proportion to your level of motivation. Or perhaps things have to get a lot worse before you realize your predicament? Crisis brings opportunity. It might kick some people out of their lethargy and wake them up. That could happen, so it’s perhaps wise to be prepared…
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
