The idea for this article comes from a conversation I had recently with a friend of mine about his daughter and her dog.
The dog was still a puppy and was approaching the doggy equivalent of ‘the terrible twos’.
Basically it’s full of beans, does whatever it wants and is not paying attention to the commands it is given.
The dog was becoming a bit of a handful.
Fortunately my friend’s daughter worked from home four days of the week meaning that she is at home and can tend to the puppy’s needs most of the time.
However, she has to go and work at the main office for one day of the week which means that someone has to pop and feed the dog and let it out to…er… how do I put this nicely… empty itself.
Basically, on the day the daughter is at the main office for the day, someone has to go and dog sit for a few hours… and the person who offered to look after the dog for those few hours was my friend’s wife.
There’s nothing wrong with that… apart from that his wife likes to bring the dog home to their house so that it can run around in their garden for a couple of hours.
Their daughter lives in a small terraced house which has a small slabbed yard which is not ideal for a dog.
The problem is not that she takes the dog home, it’s the fact that my friend sometimes gets roped in to helping out.
You see, my friend is very protective of his time. He hates having his time taken up and wasted by ‘other’ people or situations not of his making, which is why he never wanted a dog of his own.
It’s not that he is miserable or selfish, he is far from it, it’s just that he likes to use his time as he chooses.
He is in fact a big animal lover but has always said that he didn’t want a pet because they need proper care and attention. They need time.
Being a huge cat lover he still said no to having a cat because he didn’t want the hassles which come with owning a pet.
He was overruled by his wife, and ended up with a cat which visits him in the office and meows at him to go and do stuff… which he does.
The cat has trained her human well.
He doesn’t like people who get animals and cannot or won’t care for them properly.
Animals come with a responsibility. And he simply cannot ignore that. He is a compassionate and empathic person.
Animals may be a lot of fun and give their owners a lot of pleasure, but they are also a lot of hard work.
The other day while trying to work, his wife bought the dog home but because of a family birthday the following day, he offered to spend some time in the garden with the dog so that she could bake a cake and prepare for the day.
He could not not offer as he knew what his wife needed to do and that the dog would be under her feet the whole time.
It would be a nightmare.
Left unsupervised, the dog would have run riot throughout the house and destroyed the garden.
He thought that he could keep it entertained and allow his wife to do what she needed to do without tripping over the dog.
So he half happily and half begrudgingly offered to help out.
While supervising the dog all he could think about was about the time he was wasting.
He was itching to get back to the office and get on with what he was originally doing.
This wasn’t just an isolated incident, it has happened a few times and each time he moaned to his wife ‘this is why I don’t want a dog.’
Because of a recent spate of attempted dog snatches in the area, he goes with his wife when she takes the dog for a quick walk.
He simply cannot say no because he genuinely is a good guy. He could not say no to helping out when it is needed.
He knows that he is like this and this is why he chooses not to have a dog himself because he also knows that there are things he wants to do and that doing them would be adversely affected if there were animals about.
He made a decision to not put himself in a position where he would be forced to make decisions which would ultimately waste his precious time.
These types of decisions can be made when you ‘know thyself’…
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When you know what you want, what you don’t want and what makes you tick, you can make better decisions for your life.
These are the decisions which help you to succeed.
If you want to spend more time doing something specific, it doesn’t make sense putting yourself in positions which is going to rob you of that time.
If you want to do more of A, but doing B prevents that, then you need to avoid doing B altogether.
If you wanted to concentrate and trade the Forex markets, it wouldn’t make sense taking your laptop to the local pub where your friends are gathered to watch the big match.
Not if you are a big beer and footy fan who loves a boozy sing song and plenty of banter with ‘the lads’.
You have to decide, one thing or the other. You can’t do both.
Yes, you can trade the Forex markets for a few hours and then go to the pub, but I am trying to use it as an example to show that you cannot successfully do both together.
My friend knows that he is a big animal lover and that if he had pets, he would have to adapt to a way of living which he really didn’t want to and so he made the decision to not have any pets… other than the cat his wife decided to get… a cat which now rules him.
At least a cat requires less work than a dog. They often look after themselves.
He just knew that for him, having pets would be incredibly distracting and time consuming.
I am not suggesting that you should not have a pet if you want to be successful, if you love animals and having them is not going to be detrimental to your success then that is all good.
This is about knowing who you are, what it is that you want, what you don’t want and what drives you so that you can make the best decisions for you.
You may enjoy drinking ten pints of lager every day, but that will be detrimental to your dream of flying for the Red Arrows.
Know thyself… act accordingly…. and succeed.
If you are one of those people who is happy to spend your days playing in the garden with your pets, children or grandchildren, or perhaps prefer to simply relax in the garden with a drink or two enjoying the weather, then you might be looking for a way to make money where you work just a couple of hours.
Our friend Roy now earns on average £903 each week using a system which takes no more than a couple of hours a day.
£903 a week works out at £129 per day.
That’s a fabulous return for a couple of hours work.
£903 a week is £47,000 a year.
Again, that is incredibly impressive for what amounts to a couple of hours work each day.
The tools he uses are a pen and a simple piece of paper.
He works out how much he wants to earn for the day and sets about making it.
Since starting to use the system he developed after watching Superman III – I kid you not – he quit his job and now does this in his leisure.
If you would like to know what Roy does to make £903 TAX FREE money each week, click the link below:
System 903
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS… Roy wanted to share his system with others and so he wrote it all out in a step-by-step manual and instructed us to publish it on his behalf.
He also instructed us to sell only 250 copies, so if you want your own copy of the system which makes him £903 each week in TAX FREE profits. Please be aware that no more copies will be printed after the last one has been sold. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Here’s that link again: