Comments on: How To Be Successful in the New Year

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:09:35 +0000

I am impressed and inspired! It’s along and no easy way to learn all this things. Lazy Man, your article is brilliant! If you are as lazy in real life as all you wrote about then I would love to be as lazy as you ;)

By: YAHIA

YAHIA — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:53:15 +0000

First of all , i would like to thank you for your great steps and advices and experiance you just shared .

your rally inspired me and as all the obouve peoples said your great man ,

Wish you all the best and its really nice to read this .

Best regards,
yahia

By: robyn

robyn — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:20:02 +0000

what a great column! thank you for reprinting it. i’d like to recommend my friend’s book, it has useful tips on the writing process. i started using his technique and it DOES speed the process. http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Books-Fame-Fortune-ebook/dp/B005D1KZSI

By: Fanny

Fanny — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:03:40 +0000

Love these tips! Thanks for the inspiration.

By: creativemind

creativemind — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:54:21 +0000

Question?????? I always heard the saying “it take money to make money “….how do you make money to have money work for you? Can’t get ahead I’m too lazy…. can’t help!

By: Harsh Modi

Harsh Modi — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:55:14 +0000

Hey LM,
Nice post and tips which are very much practical and feasible in daily life. I daily spend around 1 hr. commuting to my college and have recently started the habit of reading newspapers while travelling to and fro from college and man it works when it comes to saving time.
Thanking you.

By: Rowhie

Rowhie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:57:41 +0000

great and motivating article, hope to follow each and every mentioned tips …..

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:18:24 +0000

Selwin Langton,

I don’t think there’s an one-size-fits-all answer to that question. I transitions from a software engineer to more of a writer by creating this blog. I wouldn’t suggest that just everyone start a blog though. I got fairly lucky and networked with the right people through a seemingly random, unplanned set of events. The thing about this blog is that I still use quite a bit of my software engineering skills for my advantage.

I’ll just throw a random idea out there for you to chew on. It might be a horrible idea because I don’t know, your skill set, or where you live. However, would you find it a more satisfying career creating entertain solutions for people? What I mean by that is that I’ve realized there’s a need to just make it easy for people to get the TV shows, movies, and music when and where they want. Perhaps you could be half salesman, half electrician, and help people set up a great customized system for them in their homes. I’m not sure if that gives you the connection of talking to more people, but it would seem like you could do this in spare time until you build up enough customer referrals to do it full time.

Another school of thought is that sometimes you just need to do something else for a bit for a particular job to not seem so dead-end anymore. I feel that way about writing sometimes, so I take a few days off fiddle with optimizing my blog. The optimization really doesn’t do too much that would be notable to the end user, but it does recharge my batteries to write again.

By: Selwin Langton

Selwin Langton — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:42:14 +0000

People always tell me that I am always so positive and always smiling and talking to people, they say I could sell ice to an escimo. I am an electrician now and find that I am not doing what I really want to do. I read a quote a while ago saying,”do what you love and money will find you”, but how does one go from a dead end job thats paying the bills to doing what you love. I’m still looking for the answer. I love to motivate people and find I can talk to just about anybody anytime, I really love sales aswell but how does one go from were you are to were you want to be?

By: Hasan

Hasan — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:09:59 +0000

Great tips …
I totally agree that the most important goal of life is to pusrue what we are interested in. Hence, the best way to be successfull is to chase our dream with no hesitation.

By: financial money tips

financial money tips — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:40:19 +0000

This article states the absolute truth to become successful. In my opnion “public speaking” is the biggest fear in people, but taking action is the biggest problem. I know soo many people who have come up with good ideas, but fail to cash in on the opportunity because they failed to take action. And most of the people who actually do take action often fail because they don’t have the “mind set” to keep pushing foward and not give up.

By: Aisha

Aisha — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:41:34 +0000

I went through & took notes off this so I could share with people in my situation. Which goes to the “surround yourself with like-minded individuals”, my friends are going through what I’m going through & if they get what I got off of this, then we will remain friends. I love this article & I will be taking these steps to become succesful. I’m 21, so look forward to hearing from me by the time I’m 22(which is in November) :) Thank you!

By: hulika

hulika — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:25:30 +0000

This is exactly what I needed as it is my 26th birthday and I dont feel accomplished. Great article and I’m very inspired by it. I study graphic design at a relatively small college in ny and I have always been afraid of failure, therefore, I never even tried.

Thanks a lot, this might just change my life!

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:30:48 +0000

I haven’t read his book. I’ll add it my to-read list.

By: randall

randall — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:26:13 +0000

Author: you read Jeffrey Gitomer’s Red Book of Selling , eh? So many of your points coincide: sales, public speaking, toastmasters, writing, networking, like-minded individuals, less-tv, books on tape, very clean work area. If you haven’t read it, you may consider doing so because your ideas are similar!

By: peter

peter — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:03:57 +0000

networking,helping some one with something everyday, using money for productive things like helping family friends and charities have really moved me but as well having a dream and staing focused helps you to achieve what money can bring.have loved this article

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:12:40 +0000

Thanks sburns, I appreciate. Occasional typos happen everywhere and they really weren’t what I was referring to. Nonetheless, I appreciate the chance to fix it.

By: sburns

sburns — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:10:51 +0000

I don’t mean to be rude by in the paragraph above writing, in which you stress the importance of grammar, you wrote ‘were’ rather than ‘where’

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:13:00 +0000

I’m just checking your reading skills Lisa ;-). Glad I could give you a laugh.

The point was more towards people who make numerous grammatical errors in small amount of words to the point where it greatly impacts the ability to understand the point. I realize this may have surfaced as a grammatical error, but it reflects my auditory way of thinking. I often have typos with to, two, and too and bear and bare even though know the difference. I hope that this was a case where people could get the point of the article.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:40:58 +0000

Sorry but had to chuckle at the comment under “Sales & Marketing”: The sentence–”I’ve found that if you have to sell to hard”…then there is the section on Writing correctly…. it is actually “if you have to sell TOO hard”. Not being picky…but you were the one who mentioned writing correctly. :-)