Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity by Larry Winget

Author:Larry Winget [Winget, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-09-11T14:00:00+00:00

Your time, energy, and money always go to what’s important to you.

Be clear about what you own and what owns you.

While you are tracking your time, track the amount of time you spend on your smartphone, iPad, computer, iPod, or other gadget. Do you own these things or do they own you?

How about Facebook? Twitter? Do they control your life? Do they control your relationships? How many times have you seen people out for dinner who can’t even put down their damn phone long enough to eat, let alone enjoy their meal? Their imaginary friends on Facebook get more of their time and focus than the real friend sitting right across the table from them. I have a friend who invites us to dinner at his house with his wife, then texts his other friends during dinner with us. He can’t put his phone down long enough to focus on us. Of course, I have enough of a pair to tell him that it’s rude and that stops him for a while, but it makes me feel like the other conversations must be more interesting than the conversation we are having and I know that can’t be true!

People can’t even drive anymore without tweeting and texting and e-mailing on their smartphones. People are being killed every day in automobile accidents because of this. Smartphones owned by stupid people.

I recently saw a tweet from a mother named Ellen that said, “I would probably pay more attention to my kids if they were on Twitter.” Twitter is more important to her than her children. And she seems to be proudly flaunting her bad parenting on social media for all of her friends to see. I’m not her friend but I saw it and so did tens of thousands of other people. She probably thought that this posting was funny. Do you find it funny? I don’t. Put down the damn phone and go talk to your kids. Face to face. Show them that they are more important to you than your Twitter feed.

How about your stuff? Does your stuff own you or do you own your stuff? I wrote a lot about this in my book You’re Broke Because You Want to Be. I told my own story about how my Porsche went from being a symbol of my prosperity to a symbol of my stupidity. A beautiful Porsche that sat in my garage for two full years and I only drove it seven hundred miles in that entire time. It went through two batteries and a set of tires because of the heat in my garage and I never even took the time to enjoy this amazing car. The car, and the feeling it gave me as a possession, owned me; I clearly didn’t own it. Yeah, my name was on the title, but that was about it.

I am going through the same thing right now with my house. I have done well in my life. I worked my ass off to go from broke and then bankrupt to a place I am very proud of.

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