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are breaking.” So they avoid their “don't wants,” but they pay a huge price.
They may never get what they want in life.
Rich dad gave me a way of looking at Chicken Little. “Just do what

Colonel Sanders did.” At the age of 66, he lost his business and began to
live on his Social Security check. It wasn't enough. He went around, the
country selling his recipe for fried chicken. He was turned down 1,009
times before someone said “yes.” And he went on to become a
multimillionaire at an age when most people are quitting. “He was a
brave and tenacious man,” rich dad said of Harlan Sanders.
So when you're in doubt and feeling a little afraid, just do what Col.

Sanders did to his little chicken. He fried it.
Reason No. 3. Laziness. Busy people are often the most lazy. We have
all heard stories of a businessman who works hard to earn money. He works
hard to be a good provider for his wife and children. He spends long hours
at the office and brings work home on weekends. One day he comes home
to an empty house. His wife has left with the kids. He knew he and his wife

had problems, but rather than work to make the relationship strong, he
stayed busy at work. Dismayed, his performance at work slips and he loses
his job.
Today, I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their wealth.
And there are people too busy to take care of their health. The cause is the
same. They're busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they
do not want to face. Nobody has to tell them. Deep down they know. In

fact, if you remind them, they often respond with anger or irritation.
If they aren't busy at work or with the kids, they're often busy watching
TV, fishing, playing golf or shopping. Yet, deep down they know they are
avoiding something important. That's the most common form of laziness.
Laziness by staying busy.
So what is the cure for laziness? The answer is a little greed.

For many of us, we were raised thinking of greed or desire as bad.
“Greedy people are bad people,” my mom use to say. Yet, we all have
inside of us this yearning to have nice things, new things or exciting things.
So to keep that emotion of desire under control, often parents found ways of
suppressing that desire with guilt.
“You only think about yourself. Don't you know you have brothers and
sisters?” was one of my mom's favorites. Or “You want me to buy you