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Taking shortcuts in doing business might be a good idea in getting rich fast… However, it will not last even if you are really successful in taking shortcuts… It might even have adverse effects on your business and even on yourself. Do you know that you can’t become an adult when you have not gone through your teenage days? If you are taking shortcuts, you are missing the big picture in life you are going to learn later which leads to a greater suffering.

An Analogy of How You Are Going To Suffer From Being a Cheapskate
As an analogy, we count numbers starting from 0 to 100 and hence there are a total of 100 steps we have covered… If we are cheapskate and start counting only from 90 to 100… we are only seeing a total of 10 steps because that is really the total number of steps you have covered form “90 to 100″… Do you see a pattern there? So when you reach 100th and you realize the mistakes you have made and you are going to resolve them, see how hard it is to resolve when you are so high at the top… You might as well keep climbing up till one day you might find yourself falling from such a high storey!

Some Examples if it is really a good idea to be a Cheapskate
Just think about this yourself.

If I were to give you all the traffic that you need, and all the resources that you need to work on your business, and give you all the manpower that you need to get yourself started, and even give you all the money that you need… You just need to sit properly as the BOSS of that company and start working on your business… Will you be successful even? Or, you might even be living off with those money that I am giving you? Are you helping to make money for the company to keep everybody happy?

Ok, let’s try another imagination of being your own boss working for yourself:

If I were to give you all the traffic for your website, all the resources that you need to run your website, and even all the money to keep the business running… You just be your own boss and start making money for yourself… Will you be able to do that? Are you able to break even from the initial investments that I have made?

Ok, let’s try yet another scenario of asking an expert to help you since you have money but new to business!

You have some money right now for yourself. You will provide all the investments for the expert to spend on finding out the best tunings for your website. The expert is able to fine tune it properly and you are making money, but on a condition that you have to learn how to maintain it… Ok, you have a working website already! But are you able to keep up with the kind of blogging style that the expert has adopted?

Or if the expert has helped you to do a sales copy for selling a product, are you willing to pay for the kind of price he is charging you? Please remember that if he is able to help you generate money for your business, this business sale is not going to be cheap! Or he will just take the sales copy himself as one of his multiple sources of income! But please be warned if that expert is charging cheaply; every price counts and I believe he is not sure if it is going to work anyway but he wants your money for sure…

Welcome to the Natural World
Unfortunately, we are all living in the life of natural and we are not living in the life of supernatural… You have to go through a process of a tunnel before seeing the result at the end of it…

Everybody has a role to play in this world. Where you start to see some success in somebody and you would want to make some money out of that person, start asking yourself what kind of leverage do you want to make… Are you leveraging on his success to assist a little in your success? Or are you going to jump onto him to ask him to teach you to make money? Or, you want him to help you FREE OF CHARGE because you are related somehow? Yes, you might want to do some leveraging… But do remember what kind of leverage he can put on you as well! In this world, it’s all about mutual respect… If you are focusing things only for your own good, you would be hurting everybody you see! The more that you want to take advantage and keep getting things for yourself, you are going to hurt a lot of people by accident! People who are more careful, will be wary of you!

It’s all about giving… It’s not about receiving… The more that you give, the more that you will receive… No, it is NEVER-A-DOG-EAT-DOG world! That’s only for dogs to know, not for human! Human is all about giving! Don’t take advantage (”eat”) of the situation just because of your own sake… Yes, you might always get what you want because of your own effort! But just take a look at the damages you have made in the end… Yes, there are many people out there who are taking advantage (”eating”) of the situation… Just ask the people around them of how they are feeling towards those “dog” people… Or you may even ask those “dogs” how they think about how those people are feeling after they have been taken advantage of…

It’s a life of attraction here… “Dogs” will always meet other “dogs” to eat in their own world… We human will start to have our own world as well! So, it is ok to let them go since they are not worthy of being a real human…

It’s all About Focus
People who are cheapskate are simply looking for opportunities where they are looking attractive! A person, who don’t try to do what he is focused in for the first 1 to 2 years, will not get a full understanding in his experience… He will base his learning half-way here, half-way there, and half-way everywhere! And such people will tend to think why he is still not successful… I believe many of you have heard about “The Law of Attraction”..

Well, I haven’t read about that book “The Secret” yet but I have heard from many people around that it is all talking about the Law of Attraction… While I am not a fan of “all the laws of this and that” because I don’t believe Man can follow law at all, I do believe in telling the world what you want, and the world will give you want you want!

If you keep telling everybody about all the things that you want and don’t want, trust me that it shall all come true! But if you tell everybody that you want this today, and you don’t feel like wanting it on the next day, or even just hesitating about it, you will not get what you want in the end!

Cheapskate people simply want a share of everything that they think people are having great success out of it..

How I manage These Cheapskates
Well, I don’t reject them totally… But I wouldn’t do just what they wanted me to either… Instead, I will try to let these people (especially my friends) go through these experience themselves and learn how to get them… I wouldn’t just give them the money… I want them to grow the money in their hands…

And if they aren’t living to my expectations, one very obvious thing to happen is that they would find me useless in their approach and will leave me eventually… Well, these is the kind of attraction I am talking about; where you attract nice people, you also repel unfriendly people too! Anyway, you don’t need them… They are just looking for you when they need you… Such a selfish group of people they can be… These people usually believe in the dog-eat-dog world…

Conclusion
Hope you like this article that I have inspiration to write about my past experiences when it suddenly got onto my mind about those sweet and sour days since 2003…