My #1 Tip to Improve your Life (and Income!)

[lowlife]

Fallout from the thread where a long time sherdoger was outed for creating sympathy threads for years to get money out of other sherdogers in what equates to a successful con.

Did that thread get deleted? I could see closing it but there was some good shit in there.

 

[Nimrod]

Dont be the hero

 

[Andersons Foot]

That's a good one. Havent seen blow in years.

Another one of my favorites is ed helms in the office.

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them”

What happened to the homeless thread?

 

[tmnpothead]

What happened to the homeless thread?

Guess they deleted it because of all the bickering. Its a shame I enjoyed the thread.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

This literally worked for me. I graduated college with a useless marketing degree was working at a bank as a teller for 4 years when I decided I need to do something. Went to night school from 6-10 two nights a week for a year. Came out with IT certs and now have a great job making great money

 

[nostradumbass]

Don't use your debit card for everything.....especially if you aren't consistently checking online banking

I routinely see people use their card and then are just hoping it goes through, ideally this should never happen.

Try pulling out cash for the week, and holding yourself to it (pretend your card doesn't exist). Not only are you more cognizant of how much you have left, but physically handing over bills has an added psychological effect which generally results in people being more thrifty

I actually lose a bunch of money using cash. It would work better if things cost more even amounts, but getting change with a bunch of singles and coins, it winds up all over the place and a bunch of it gets lost cause I don't want a 3 foot thick wallet full of singles so I always just throw them off to the side.

To avoid overspending, I usually set goals for my bank balance and not buy yourself anything extravagant until your balance reaches a certain amount, like "I want this guitar and could buy it now but am gonna wait until I have ____ in my account". This way, if something costs $500, you wait until you've saved $2000 rather than spending the 500 as soon as you get the 500, cause once you have the first thing, it's onto buying another toy as soon as you have the money.

 

[Oblivian]

Don't use your debit card for everything.....especially if you aren't consistently checking online banking

I don't understand why people use debit card for anything honestly.

 

[SoberAwakening]

Glad it worked for you, but that's not how the real world works for everyone.

Some people, even in poverty, are afforded opportunities that some people just aren't. That's fact. And no Tony Robbins, Joel Osteen prosperity gospel, Eckhart Tolle, The Secret nonsense is gonna change that.

Some people will be born into poverty, grow up in poverty, and die in, guess what...poverty! Same goes with being successful and not successful. Working hard is a piece, and a relatively small piece of the equation. Right place, right time, and right influence are probably bigger pieces to the puzzle.

The "I did it, so you can do it too" pep talks people give always comes off as cringe worthy.

 

[Based and White Pilled]

You sound rich.

I know anecdotal evidence isn't acceptable in an argument, but I've never known anyone who could honestly say that they were giving it everything they could and wasn't able to improve their situation. Have you?

I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

Glad it worked for you, but that's not how the real world works for everyone.

Some people, even in poverty, are afforded opportunities that some people just aren't. That's fact. And no Tony Robbins, Joel Osteen prosperity gospel, Eckhart Tolle, The Secret nonsense is gonna change that.

Some people will be born into poverty, grow up in poverty, and die in, guess what...poverty! Same goes with being successful and not successful. Working hard is a piece, and a relatively small piece of the equation. Right place, right time, and right influence are probably bigger pieces to the puzzle.

The "I did it, so you can do it too" pep talks people give always comes off as cringe worthy.

Sorry, but anyone can make a good life in America. My parents were immigrant children with shitty parents and now they are the hated 1% based on hard work. Neither even went to college and they still succeeded.

 

[Based and White Pilled]

Glad it worked for you, but that's not how the real world works for everyone.

Some people, even in poverty, are afforded opportunities that some people just aren't.

Opportunities don't just fall in most people's laps. You have to create them for yourself.

I'm not a 'get rid all welfare and see if they starve' advocate, but in my experience it's 100% true that motivated people will get themselves out of a bad situation. I went to high school in a low income area and it was easy to pick out the hard workers. A decade later there is very little surprise about what life situation everyone from my graduating class is currently in

 

[zapataxiv]

What if you can’t afford boots?

No problem I stay strapped

 

[zapataxiv]

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps was coined as a joke, as in: "what do they expect the poor to do, pull themselves up by their own boot straps?"

A joke because you cannot defy gravity by yanking on your feet.

Motivation and ability are genetically predetermined traits influenced by the environment, one either has the motivation and ability to do so or one doesn't. You don't get it just because you decide to.

You're nearly as bad as that wish nonsense. No offence, I get your coming from a good place, but telling people just to get better doesn't work with a broken leg and it equally doesn't work with fecklessneas and drug abuse.

<puh-lease75>

 

[Peteyandjia]

I know anecdotal evidence isn't acceptable in an argument, but I've never known anyone who could honestly say that they were giving it everything they could and wasn't able to improve their situation. Have you?

I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination.

Hell no, I agree with all of that. If someone really puts their mind to something, with a singular focus, and if they then truly put consistent, hard work into that thing, results will almost certainly follow. Humans are incredibly powerful creatures.

We are also incredibly lazy by default, and subconsciously we will constantly look for the easy way out of things. Overcoming that ‘Lazy vs. Diligent’ struggle inside of us, is definitely the main component to success.

The rest of the variables, including almost all advantages & disadvantages, are mere details by comparison. ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way.’ Forging & focusing one’s willpower seems to be almost the entire game.

 

[Smokes]

Man I thought this be a thread on how to move these bricks or pimp these hoes. I want that real money TS. I want to get it like you got it. I want to ball til I fall. Let me get the hook up.

 

[Cole train]

That's a good one. Havent seen blow in years.

Another one of my favorites is ed helms in the office.

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them”

I was friendless from 16 to 20 and from 20 to 23 i was drug addict and a criminal.

Nowadays im still not normal,problems with social skills because i was friendless teenage tears and a slightly "cold" attitude toward people from criminal times but otherwise life is ok.

That quote kept me going when i wanted to blow my brains out

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

I actually lose a bunch of money using cash. It would work better if things cost more even amounts, but getting change with a bunch of singles and coins, it winds up all over the place and a bunch of it gets lost cause I don't want a 3 foot thick wallet full of singles so I always just throw them off to the side.

To avoid overspending, I usually set goals for my bank balance and not buy yourself anything extravagant until your balance reaches a certain amount, like "I want this guitar and could buy it now but am gonna wait until I have ____ in my account". This way, if something costs $500, you wait until you've saved $2000 rather than spending the 500 as soon as you get the 500, cause once you have the first thing, it's onto buying another toy as soon as you have the money.

This is what I tend to do. It's also why I haven't trained in MMA for the last 3 years. Never have enough extra money.

 

[Pugilistic]

It's because most people are trapped in a prison of their own making. Making a million excuses is easier than making your life better.

 

[Leonard Haid]

Pull yourself UP by the bootstraps!

I don't get it, why don't poor and unsuccessful people follow this simple piece of advice?

It worked for me... and works for everybody who does it.

Struggling in life? behind in rent? Need more money or friends?

Pull yourself up by the bootstraps and get to work.

Cliche but without the research and years of academic life and clinical experience to back it up. The teenage Jordan Peterson.

 

[Anomonis]

Hard work is good for sure, but the funny thing is that the phrase 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps' is actually in origin a condescending type of joke or insult. Since, you know, it is literally physically impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.