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Excuse Makers
Are Not Money Makers
- authored by Rob Toth -
























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This is being written for all the excuse makers in this
world … and there sure are plenty of them.

If you’re part of this majority, I can promise you that by
the end of this article, you and I won’t be friends. But
that’s fine as long as you still consider the point I am
about to make and then go implement it in your life.

I’d rather shake you and give you some food for thought
which can make a positive impact on your financial
goals… rather than “be your buddy”.




Excuse makers are an absolutely disrespectful bunch!

And their disrespectful attitudes are a dime-a-dozen in
the “make money” (ie: business) markets.

To jump right into it…

They’re often heard saying things such as “Someone like
you can make money with [this] because you have a
__________ (lot of customers, large subscriber list, high
traffic website, popular blog, well known name and
credibility, years of experience…), but for someone like
me [this] would never work.”

The [this] is irrelevant. It could be a new marketing
technique or a new affiliate program. It could be a
network marketing opportunity or a new internet business
model… doesn’t matter, the excuses are the same and
idiotic in every case.

Let wishful thinkers be wishful thinkers. Everyone has the
right to live their life (or exist, in most cases) as they
please.

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What needs to end, however, is how this same group can
quickly blow off somebody’s years of dedicated work and
effort in building an appropriate asset and just dismiss it
as if they were born with it; As if somehow these assets
just came to them.

Imagine being overweight… severely overweight.

Overweight to the point where your doctor has a serious
talk with you about the strong possibility that you will not
be around in 12 months if you don’t make a change.

So you do. You decide to make a change in a big way.

You drop old bad habits…

You pick up better ones.

You get educated… study up on how your body handles
food, what weight loss techniques actually work and
which ones are just hyped up fads. You learn about
nutrition and healthy living.

You call in professionals and work with a fitness
therapist, nutritionist and weight loss coach towards your
now, clearly mapped out goals.

You invest time and money. And you struggle. Boy, do
you struggle.

There are times when you feel like crying and just
throwing in the towel because you’re frustrated at the
slow (or what seems to be, no) progress.

Your friends tell you they support you, but you can tell
that not one of them actually believes in you.


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You sacrifice dinner parties because you don’t want to be
tempted.

You sacrifice a two-week tropical holiday that you had
your heart set on, because you now decided to invest
that money into professional help (your coaches),
education (books and resources) and a healthier diet
(which does tend to a cost a little more than junk food).

And you work, work, work at it.

There are days when all you would rather do is stay in
bed, give in to your cravings, and do what all of your
“friends” and coworkers expect you to do: quit.

But you don’t… you work, work, work at it some more.

Over the course of the next 12-18 months, you have
made remarkable gains.

And you STILL work at it, when others would give up
after having achieved just a few milestones… you decide
to get your body to the weight you know it should be at
and get your health to its optimum levels.

So you work some more!

Then one day, you head down to the local gym to go
through your daily workout. While there, you see another
member who you’ve never met before but looks nearly
identical in terms of weight and low-energy and poor
health as you did 18+ months ago.

You can see that she is struggling. By now, you’ve
practically had a Master’s Degree worth of book
knowledge, thousands of dollars worth of professional
coaching and, of course, 18+ months of hands-on
experience thanks to your determination. So you decide
to go over and offer a few pointers to this other member.

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You say hello, quickly introduce yourself and then tell her
that if she is “open to a couple of suggestions” here’s
what you recommend… you tell her about the routine you
recommend she starts with, and the books you
recommend she reads and the milestone’s she should
work towards.

You tell her all the things that you KNOW will help, as
well as some tips (based on your experience) that she
should try.

This person then looks back at you and says “Sure, if I
was your size and in your condition, all of that might
work… but for someone like me, that would never work.”

You were just spat in the face!

With that one statement, she might as well have slapped
you and spat in your face as that self-centered comment
just disregarded all of the hours of hard work and very
dedicated study and thousands of dollars invested… and
your inner battles where you fought another day just to
“keep going” … and instead implied that “you’ve had it
easy!”

THAT is disrespectful. And I hear it all the time in the
business circles.

With millions wishfully thinking about building an income
online, yet only a very small fraction actually working
towards it… these excuse makers are found everywhere.

I recently visited an established blog and was reading the
comments from whinny excuse makers who were saying
“Sure, you’ve got all these great opportunities and this
ability to make money with anything, but for someone like
me, it could never work.”


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I was in a discussion forum where dozens were talking
about the fast growth of a particular marketer in an
affiliate program… and the group’s discussion quickly
took a turn to “Well sure he was able to make a lot of
money with that program, but for someone like you or
me, it could never work.”

It’s like common sense jumped out the window for these
people!

Where do you think that particular entrepreneur, the
“money maker”, got their asset (high traffic website,
popular blog, large subscriber list, fast growing downline,
large client list, credibility and experience) from?

Everyone starts at zero.

Someone with a large rolodex of joint venture contacts, a
responsive subscriber list, a large client database, a high
traffic website, and a lot of advertising dollars will, of
course, outpace the sales and success of someone just
getting started. But at one point, maybe last year or
maybe 5 years ago, that same person had zero contacts,
zero skills, likely had no extra advertising dollars and
zero website visitors.

Someone with a loyal downline of thousands of
associates will logically become one of the top earners in
a new network marketing venture practically overnight.
But at one point, that networker was absolutely clueless
about what they were doing and had zero sponsorships
and zero sales. Maybe that was 9 months ago or nearly a
decade ago… but they started at zero.

Everyone who currently has the popular website, the well
established name, the so-called “guru” status, their large
subscriber list… each of them started with zero sales,
zero subscribers and zero visitors.


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There’s at least one critical difference between these
“money makers” versus the excuse makers…

At one point, they looked upon somebody else’s ability to
create more and more opportunity (and therefore, more
and more income) for themselves because of their
established assets and instead of saying “well, sure it’s
easy for him…”, the money makers said “I want to make
sure that it becomes just as easy for me… so I’m going to
get to work and build these assets for myself.”

Many months (or most likely years) of hard work and
struggle and making mistakes and self doubts, and time
wasted on ineffective ideas and money wasted on
ineffective techniques and restless nights and
unsupportive friends and more work followed by even
more work… eventually it all led to them having
increasingly more credibility, which led to an increasingly
more popular website, which led to an increasingly larger
client base, which then helped build an increasingly
popular blog … etc, etc.

And after all this time and money and work invested, they
had built themselves an asset that would, in fact, ensure
that they could capitalize on all sorts of opportunities that
would never have been possible without those
investments and short-term sacrifices.

I promise you that none of the Olympic champions just
woke up as a household name and super star athlete…
they worked for it. They worked for it when others would
have just said “wow, those guys are good… I could never
compete at that level.”

You, excuse makers, have no right to take that away
from them. You have no right to spit them in the face with
a statement that implies that they just “had it easy.”


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To everyone who would normally look upon somebody
else’s success and say:

- “Wow, I sure wish I had a 20,000 member
downline. It’s so easy for them to make money.”
- “It’s oh so easy for him to make money, he has a
subscriber list of 50,000… I only have 50.”
- “Of course she can make money with that affiliate
program… she gets 10,000 visits to her webpages
per day. But someone like me could never make
that kind of money.”

... all I can say to you is, you should be ashamed of
yourself.

I mean it.

Because if your child worked hard and put in an
impressive effort to win a competition, you would
congratulate him even if he lost … as you should! Above
average effort should be congratulated.

Yet, instead, these comments of “well it’s easy for you”
completely negate all of the invested time and sacrifices
that this individual has made. THAT is selfish and
disrespectful.

(I don’t sugar coat my words too well.)

But now also turn my point around…

If you’re tired of being the one always looking upon
somebody else’s successes and seeing how they are
enjoying the domino effect that they have built for
themselves, where every single project they touch quickly
turns into a very healthy new income stream… then join
them! Become that success yourself.


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“Success” isn’t defined by a dollar figure; It’s whatever
you make it out to be for yourself. But if you are
constantly looking on as somebody is able to create more
and more income for themselves at an almost
unstoppable pace… please, be fair and realize that they
are simply reaping what they sowed… and they likely
worked hard and sowed a lot to be able to enjoy these
benefits.

And you can do the same… and then some!

If you even do just a little productive work (not just “busy
work” and “paper shuffling”), you’ll quickly get ahead
because the majority are procrastinators and wishful
thinkers. And I promise you, that’s not going to change.

That’s a choice each individual makes for him or herself.
No man or woman is “better” or “above” another… but
the choices he or she makes can produce better results.

If you want these better results for yourself and your
family, simply start making better choices. One of the first
should be to make a decision and then take action to
learn the necessary skills, take the necessary steps,
make the necessary investments (time, money, energy)
and get in gear.

You’re going to have a tough time making money if
you’re constantly making nonsense excuses.

As an alternative: work to develop the right skills, develop
an effective plan and then work at it for the months or
years that it takes to build your own asset(s) which can
set you up to become the one that majority will look at
and say “well, sure for someone like you it’s so easy.”

It won’t happen tomorrow!


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You won’t become “that guy” (or gal) tomorrow… but the
fact is, time will pass either way. You will be somewhere
12 months – 5 years from now. The choices you make
today can create a lot better results and a lot more
options for you.

Make the smart choice: become a “money maker”.

With appreciation,






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interview and pay
particular attention to Tip
#2 (of the 3 that we
discuss). Click here for
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