How not to keep your word or the 10 habits of highly in- effective people.
Follow this simple 10 step guide for guaranteed results.
1-Maintain a steady habit of being lazy, undisciplined and most of all watch a lot of TV. If you ever get the urge to do something or to turn off the TV, immediately get another beer, find 10 or 20 new channels to explore and you will enjoy instant gratification.
2-No matter what, don’t tell anyone about your plans or goals. There is a time proven axiom that states the following; the fewer people who know your plans the easier it is to slime out of any commitment. Like the tree that falls in the forest, if no one knows about it, then it doesn’t exist. You will feel so much better.
3-Eat poorly and rarely work out, so you can always have an excuse that you are not well enough to do what you said you would do. There is a little known scientific fact that for every ten pounds additional weight, there is a 10% less chance of keeping your word. Remember, there is nothing so satisfying as a pig-out followed by a good snooze.
4-Hang out with deadbeats, lowlife’s and generally poor character individuals. Never associate with so called high quality people who are constantly striving to improve things and seem to have the need to challenge you to improve yourself in some way. Steer clear of these do-gooders in case they try to misguidedly influence you.
5-If by some chance you make the mistake of creating goals, by all means aim low and do not have any hope or expectation of producing results. Expectations are just premeditated resentments, thus, complete lack of them will kick start you are on your way to true enlightenment and happiness.
6-Care for nothing and don’t give a damn in general and everything will work itself out. Really caring about people, the world, and what they say are important such as climate change or caring about the poor are a waste of your precious time and you can’t do anything about it anyway.
7-Do as little as possible and hire cheap labor to do everything possible for you. Like royalty, have someone prepare your toilette, change the TV channels, cook and even eat your meals. Let someone else do the heavy lifting. Why do anything at all when there are so many people out of work?
8-Don’t forget the importance of negative psychology. You need to have a constant sound track of negative self talk; “I can’t do this”, “I don’t have enough time”, “I don’t deserve it” and “I am not good enough” are a few time honored favorites. The opportunities to talk yourself down are endless. The beauty is, the more you engage in this behavior, the more you will get what you want.
9-Never do things right away. The key to ineffectiveness is avoidance and procrastination at every turn. If you have the impulse to activate, generate or innervate, immediately take a nap or read the NY Times cover to cover. Never do today what can be put off indefinitely.
10-Finally, employ the piece de resistance of ineffectiveness, the big lie. When caught in the web of confronting the truth about not keeping your commitments you can always rely on simply denying you ever said what you said you would do. The mysterious wonder about lying is that if you repeat the lie often enough it miraculously turns into the truth. So remember, when all else fails, lie through your teeth till you believe it yourself.
I hope this article helps you conduct your life in a truly ineffective manner. Most importantly, keep these valuable tips to yourself. You don’t want slackers and ordinary people catching on to your tricks of leading the life style you have worked so hard to achieve.