I know not everyone can be self-made millionaires, but so many people can do something about their current situation. So many people that I know constantly complain about how much their job sucks, how they are not making enough money, and even just how they are unhappy with their situation. Out of all these people I would say 75% of them are doing nothing about it. Why not strive for more?

A few years ago my life was hell. I was a full time student at Robert Morris University, worked 30+ hours at an insurance company, and was running ThinkComputers. I barely had time for anything. The thing that kept me going was the thing that I was most interested in, ThinkComputers. Now it is what I am doing full time. All the extra time I had I would work on the site. During my break at work, in between classes at school, and before I went to bed a night. I knew I could make something out of the site that would help me with my current situation and it really did. I added some ads to the site and started updating it more frequently. This of course brought more traffic to the site which in-turn gave me some extra income. Because of this extra income I did not have to work as many hours at the insurance company. From there I kept on working and now I am doing ThinkComputers full time and it is paying the bills.

So why do so many people just sit around and complain about their current situation? I’m really not sure, but here are some thoughts.

Laziness – This is probably the biggest reason why people do nothing for themselves. Some people come home from work and just sit around. And for them it is to hard to try to do anything that might help them out. Or these people would rather do other activities like video games, drinking, etc instead of helping themselves. What they don’t realize is they would have much more time for those activities if they would do something for themselves and get out of the situation that they are in.

Dependent on someone else – I see this a lot with younger people. They are living at home with their parents and their parents pay for most things so they are satisfied with the way things are going. So if they have free food and a roof over their head then why would they want to change things? These people really need a reality check. You also see this with people who are like, “Oh yeah Jeff is going to get me that job”. You can’t totally rely on other people to get you a job, you have to do some work yourself.

I guess those are really the only 2 big factors that I can think of right now, laziness is a huge factor in why so many people are not happy with their situation. Helping yourself out whether it be financially, mentally, or even physically is not easy, but if you don’t even try then you will never know how far you can go. That is why I continually worked on my websites and even now when I am happy I am still working hard to make things even better for myself. Hopefully some of you will do the same.