Larry Winget, the acclaimed, tough-guy speaker, who always tells that particular kind of truth that you don’t really want to hear, was riding in a car with a young couple.
By the way, this story is recreated from my very spotty memory of an online Larry Winget video I watched years ago. I will try to look it up before the end of this email.
In this video, Larry was riding in a car with a young couple dispensing his no-nonsense financial wisdom. He told them they should do something, very sensible, to correct their wayward money situation.
The man said that “maybe” he would take this advice to heart.
At which point Larry looked him straight in the eye and with maximum drama said, “Did you just say ‘Maybe’?”
We say “maybe” to ourselves all the time. But nothing ever happens, we never move ahead, we miss all the opportunities, we stay stuck exactly where we are when that inner voice says to us, “Just say ‘maybe’.”
To be sure, there are lots of things in our life we should say “NO!” to.
But when we say “maybe” we are stuck.
I think this is Larry Winget wisdom worth pondering. (big pause here)
Did you just say “MAYBE”?
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p.s. OK, I got this totally wrong. I found a video where he did this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb8DqHk2dp8 (at 1:05) The only problem is he said “probably” instead of “maybe”. I apologize. The truth of the statement still holds so I am not going to reedit my email.
