Sagara Development LLC

Sorry folks, this is my place to speak my mind. If you don't want to read me being blunt (well, more blunt than I usually am), don't read my blog. I don't like wasting people's time by talking all around an issue, but never really saying what the issue is, all in the name of politeness. I don't want to do you a disservice by not being honest. Anyway...

Author Carolyn Myss said it years ago, and I quote her on something I encounter all too often.  It's epidemic: "I paid my money, now give me my skill." It's the attitude of, what is it? Entitlement?

Reality check: just because you pay for a workshop, tutoring, a book, an audio recording doesn't mean you will automatically have a new skill set. Sounds obvious but I can't tell ya how many people seem to have the Entitlement Attitude. Can't tell ya how many times I've asked, "What do you mean it doesn't work? Did you read the book (listen to the recording, attend the workshop)?" The reply often is, "Uh, well, no." And for those that did I ask, "Did you actually go and do what you learned?" Again, "Well, no. I started to, I got distracted and then had to do a bunch of stuff and then I forgot..."

"Okay, let me see if I've got this straight: You paid for a book, workshop or audio recording and didn't listen to it and if you did you didn't actually DO anything that you learned and you're complaining that it didn't work WHY????"

I heard a statistic and I believe it. How many people who buy something "self help" never read it, listen to it, or even open the package? 97%. Yeah, do the math. That means only 3% of people who buy all that stuff actually use it.

Nuf said.