> It ain't the money ... it's the nature of
> people who "want" but aren't
> willing to do anything to "get."

I completely agree. However, for most people - particularly the fellow Lawrence describes - money is a definite filter. It filters out the committed from the uncommitted.

That filtration happens at different levels for different people. Those folks who paid you $25,000 to ignore what you said - would they have done the same at $250,000? Perhaps they would have, come to think of it. Like you, I have been well-compensated for wise counsel that went unheeded. There's no accounting for sheer lack of stick-to-it-iveness, regardless of relationship or cost.

But, relationship and cost do enter the mix for most people.




John Kuraoka, freelance advertising copywriter