drooling..waiting for Gordon's answer..because
he has lots of good insight...

But Jack..how do you know it's your attitude
and not something else? when you went to college
someone told you all you had to do was enroll,
go to class , get the degree and you'd get the
jobs: right?...you did what you were told and
it happened...

Is it possible you are in need of good advice
and a mentor to take you to a new level...

What's the difference between what you've achieved
so far and achieving your new goals? lack of
information, lack of a plan, lack of knowledge
about what to do next?

I'm wondering...because the answer to this dilemna
will probably help us all....

ok Gordon chime in...and the others too...
lets keep this thread going...

Gordon (and others),

> What the heck, i'm going to take a risk and
> put my true (really) thoughts out there. I
> confess. I think like the "average man
> in the street" you mention in the post
> above. Consider me a case study ;-)

> What do I want? Here goes:

> I want to live in this house on this
> lake .

> I want to work for myself.

> I want to read to my child every day.

> I want to take weekends off.

> I want to earn $250,000 yr. (that's an
> expensive house ;-)

> I want to work I want to be able to leave
> my house on the lake and drive to the coast
> to see the ocean when I feel like it.

> I want to have decent health insurance for
> my family.

> I want to have time to go fishing on that
> beautiful lake.

> OK, now that I've established what I want
> and I look at the list I get a sinking
> feeling that says "it'll never
> happen". This is the thought process of
> the average "Man in the street"
> that you refer to. I realize its a defeatist
> attititude.

> If you read first page of the article in the
> 1st link above, you'll see that that is a
> VACATION home. It's not even the guy's
> primary residence!!!. Yet I think about that
> house every day...

> Is attitude the only difference between me
> and that guy? Heck, I've got a graduate
> degree in Computer Science, a great GPA,
> i've been told i'm smart, easy to talk to, a
> good teacher, blah blah blah. Yet in spite
> of all these positive attributes, I'm no
> closer to the dream above then a billion
> other average joes...

> My question (for you and the others): how do
> you overcome your own bad attitude? Have you
> suffered from this "disease"
> before? What did you do to shake it?

> Fire away, be honest, I can take it...

> BTW, I appreciate all you do for those on
> this board.

> Regards,

> Jack