Maybe the guy would’ve been grateful.

Perhaps, after pleading with his boss, using all the reasons why he and his family should not be forced to work to pay off over a million dollars of debt, and having the whole debt erased, there would be a 180 degree turn in the guy’s financial life and he’ll never have another hospital bill, vehicle breakdown, or a child that needs financial support again.

I doubt that though.

Find out about what I’m talking about here, and read about my first reaction to it here.

It’s natural to think that the boss was gracious to the guy – but I think the poor employee had some serious issues that no amount of money could fix.

That’s why last post, I made mention of all the blaming he was doing.

With his blaming, he made it very clear that he was the victim. Here’s what I mean.

• The world owed him something for all the hassle he went through for 20 years.

Notice how he used his circumstances as an argument against having to do things the CEO’s way.

Any person who studies the mind, and how to change one’s circumstance knows that the circumstances he was in all those years were the very justices he deserved for his frame of mind.

Saying all his circumstances were unjust just doesn’t follow the principles of prosperity (not to mention laws of Cause and Effect) – and is hardly objective or proactive about making improvements to his life.

• His life sucked so bad, it was imperative that his kids didn’t have the same life.

I could go on all day about this one, but I’ve condensed this down to just a few paragraphs.

If his life sucked, then what about all his co-workers who got the bonus check? Didn’t they work at the same job since the company’s inception?? Wouldn’t they all be victims of having a sucky life??

Of course not.

On that note, if his co-worker’s lives didn’t suck, why would his children’s lives have to suck by working there as well?

I’m thinking this guy had very little gratitude for the opportunity to help build the company from the ground up, to have a boss so gracious as to help him out in tough times, and to say that his children would be subjected to such a poor life if they were forced to work there….

Clear indication that his mindset is not where it should be. In a twisted way, he honestly believes that he’s been severely wronged in his life.

When the truth is, he’s been given so much more than the others around him (the trust of over a million dollars, remember?)

And if this victimhood and lack of gratitude is a mindset that his children learn from him, guaranteed, their lives are going to suck as well – no matter where they go to school, where they work, or how much money they make.

• The illness that fell upon his wife was so unjust, someone had to cover the mortgage payment.

When someone talks a lot about how hard done by they are, they are looking for some outside circumstance to suddenly change their lives. They think it would only be just that something really good should happen to them since something so bad has happened to them.

What demonstration of responsibility is this guy really displaying?

What about faith?

What are your thoughts? Please share them below. Subscribe to this blog (and get a free gift), because when I’m done talking about this employee, we’re going to have a rousing conversation about what I think about the CEO. You’re not going to want to miss it.

Spirit of Faith, Man of Action

There is a man who is severely indebted to the CEO of the company he’s worked for for many many years. When bonus checks where being cut, the CEO made the employee aware of more than a million dollars of bailouts he’d helped out with and said the debt needed to be paid. Find out more about the story here, and do share your thoughts about my perception of the situation below.

The first thing I noticed in the story:

The guy had excuses and blamed his situation on circumstances.

The more I learn about success, the more I am beginning to understand the destructive force of the ‘blame game’. Here’s a translation of what I heard from that poor employee.

“It’s not my fault!! Doctors are so expensive! How was I to know that when my wife was sick, I’d have to pay so much? Please don’t put my family under such a financial load because of that!!”

“I want my kids to live a better life than I did. The tuition rates are completely outside of my power. There’s no way that I could’ve known about that.”

He blamed circumstance for his problems. What was at stake in this story is different, but it’s no different of a principle to say, “Sorry I was late for work! How was I to know every light I hit on the way to work was going to be red!”

This mentality leads down another destructive path that I’ll cover next time.

I think that coming up with excuses and blaming others is the complete opposite of exercising faith.

Faith doesn’t find excuses. It finds a way.

Share your thoughts below.

Carpe Fidem

Spirit of Faith, Man of Action

This is a story that I heard this week. I found the message quite fascinating about gratitude, gratefulness, mercy, and faith.

I am quite interested to hear what you guys think about it, and I’m going to be sharing my thoughts about it over the next few posts.

Spirit of Faith, Man of Action