I can't stand you! It's been too many years listening to your complaints, your excuses, your pathetic stories about why you're screwed, why you can't make ends meet, why your boss hates you…

Maybe you're one of them... I don't know... and I don't care... surely, if you are, you'll wish you hadn't read this email.

Too painful for a fake ego...

But wait!, before you go, let me tell you something that might make you hate me more or perhaps open your eyes...

A secret so obvious that, perhaps for that reason, it's hard to discover,

Let me tell you:

I ran into my brother-in-law the other day. Yes, I know, I had a bad day... but who doesn't have a brother-in-law like that who knows everything?, a jerk, basically...

He tells me he's going through a tough time... difficulties at work, he says... I'm not happy about it, but at least I don't have to endure his boasting in the form of commercial successes... He's not strutting around so much as being the fucking master of sales anymore.

Now I have to endure his miseries, his "bad luck"…

But, oh, surprise! His successes were always HIS successes, but it turns out that, now, his failures are always OTHERS'.

He has no choice, shifting the blame is the best way he's found to try to save face...

That if the prices of his products are higher than the competition

That if his company doesn't innovate and they are being left out of the market

That if his boss has no idea about commercial strategy

That if his clients are...

Sound familiar, doesn't it? Maybe you've been doing it too... deep down, isn't it more comfortable when someone else is to blame, right? That way, you don't have to look at yourself.

Well, if you've made it this far, I'll tell you what the 1st step is to stop being the "jerk brother-in-law":

When you're going to explain the story of your screw-ups, your failures, or your lamentable results, never forget this phrase I'm going to tell you:

"If you're not part of the problem, you also can't be part of the solution"

If you want to know more, I'll tell you tomorrow how the story ends,