Yesterday I spent some time with my family at a carnival in the parking lot of the biggest local mall. Our attention was captured by the game where you drop a coin hoping that the scooping movement of a sliding mirror will make many more coins and gadgets fall on the table in front of you. We spent some time the all four of us dropping quarters and winning quarters and then dropping some more. We knew that by the very fact that the lady running the game was in business, the odds were against us. Statistically the must be more coins that stay inside the box than those that fall out.

The game where you drop a coin into a slot and hope to win the jackpot.

But there were so many coins just on the verge of falling and sometimes one little coin would produce a whole waterfall of coins for us to gather, that the game continued long enough to keep us entertained without spending too much money, but we did lose most of the coins that we put in despite, the many wins we had in the meantime. We walked away putting our last win in our pocket and we felt we had won anyway since the game turned out exactly as we expected. The odds were all against us, but it was fun to try.

In life you often find similar situations: get rich quick systems that are being offered you where you just have to throw that extra coin to gain all the previous money that has been amassed by the people that came before you. And sometimes the system seems credible enough and the guy selling it sound really convincing.

So we try it and then we find out that it is a system that worked maybe three years or one year before and that now it isn’t working at all or can’t work for us because it would take us years before developing the market presence and skills demonstrated by the “guru” and we don’t have so much time or there is not so much market anymore.

There is nothing wrong in adopting something new and using it to increase your business, but beware of those systems that tell you can become rich quick with no work and no time. The odds are simply against you and you will find yourself with less money and less time in your hands and more failures in your track.

Unfortunately, in all selling events they will tell you that you will not get results unless you stick with the system and really use it. It is true but can led you into trouble when you are using a bad system. There are people who have almost gone bankrupt by trying to follow the wrong path, so be your own judge and avoid cutting corners with some get rich quick scheme (they are so popular on the Internet now). Concentrate instead on developing your own unique system by putting together the best of what you find and you will eventually win big time.

Roberto Mazzoni