Shut up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life, Second Edition, Revised & Updated

CHAPTER FIVE

SLAUGHTERING THE SACRED SELF-HELP COWS

You have just spent some time thinking about the life you want. Hopefully you now have a picture of the kind of life you want to lead. You even wrote it down—probably for the very first time in your life. You say you are willing to pay the price. Congratulate yourself! You are now further along than almost any other person on the planet. Very few people have ever made it as far as you just have.

So let's get real about making the life you have designed really happen for you. Let's look at all the areas of life each of us deals with and discover how to move through them and past them to actually get the life you want.

This is where you probably think I am going to address all of the typical self-help stuff like setting and achieving goals, being positive, and that sort of motivational mumbo-jumbo. No. I'm going to give you stuff that is much different than what you have come across before. In fact, I am going to attack most of what you have heard and read and learned.

Some won't like my approach here, but as you have probably figured out by now, I don't care. What you think of me isn't as important as what you become.

And some will think I'm not telling the truth because it's so contrary to what we have been bombarded with for so long, but that doesn't make it untrue. It just makes it unconventional, which, in my opinion, makes it refreshing and worth looking at.

“All great truth begins as blasphemy.”

—George Bernard Shaw

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