Incidentally, his points are the opposite of your last paragraph. I agree with you re the folly of striving for that which you can never achieve at the expense of the wonders that are all around, but he clearly doesn't think that. He is of the mind that anyone can be successful, if only they had the right mindset. But that is unrealistic. Mindset is important sure, but it's going to take more than that.
It is immaterial that most people here believe in Free market economics, because that is not the basis on which I am criticising him. The fact that he is filling a niche that is valued doesn't mean I cannot question whether that niche is a valid one, or whether his services are of any value. After all, a croupier fills a niche that society values. So too does a prostitute, a palm reader, and a drug dealer. Does that mean I can't argue against gambling, sex slavery, charlatinism and cocaine addiction?
His argument re negativity is that he is advocating ditching people whose negativity is dragging you down. The point I was trying to make is that you might be able to do that to friends, but there are folk you can't do that to. Folk who you have a responsibility to. Family for example.
Attempts to induce inadequacy in me because I have the temerity to disagree with a moticational speaker don't work. The times when I would have fallen for that are long past.
Well, yeah, the article is in a business magazine.
But that doesn’t mean the philosophy only pertains or is espoused for financial success. It could be for someone wanting to get married and start a family, or, given this particular publication, someone looking to build a ‘lifestyle’ business, rather than a megamillion earner.
His list is simply suggested as possible reasons that one might not be succeeding with one’s business as wished.
I’m sorry you’re so jaded as to think this grand ol’ US of A, however challenged it might be right now, is not still a land of opportunity.