The Idiot Factor The 10 Ways We Sabotage Our Life, Money, and Business

We all say that we want to be more successful. We want more money, a better job, a better relationship with our spouse; we want to be healthier. But few people actually put their money where their mouth is. Instead, we live lives that are contradictory to what we say we want. We spend billions each year on weight-loss products and services, yet most Americans are overweight. We say we want great kids, but the average amount of time we spend in meaningful conversation with our children is three and a half minutes per week. We buy things we can't afford and can't pay our credit card bills, and then we call the credit card companies "predatory."

Larry Winget is one of the country's leading business speakers and is a regular guest on Fox News. He is the author of No Time For Tact; You're Broke Because You Want to Be; It's Called Work for a Reason!; and Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life.