<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Michael Cheney - personal development expert" title="Michael Cheney - personal development expert" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/michael-cheney-08.jpg" />This is a classic momentum-killer that you will have used, just like me, on numerous occasions. The first step to recognizing and solving a problem is to own up to it right?</p>
<p>Have you ever seen the kids&#8217; TV program Sesame Street? There&#8217;s a character on there called The Count. He&#8217;s like Count Dracula and he..well, he counts. &#8220;1 &#8211; 2 &#8211; 3 ha ha ha!&#8221;</p>
<p>What&#8217;s so wrong with counting you say?</p>
<p>Nothing. Nothing unless it is killing your momentum and stopping you getting what you want from life. Which it often does. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2008/02/count-dracula-is-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-success-by-michael-cheney/" title="Permanent Link: Count Dracula Is Sucking The Life Out Of Your Success" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":7,"date":"2008-02-10T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/count-dracula-is-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-success-by-michael-cheney\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:51:17","slug":"count-dracula-is-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-success-by-michael-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/count-dracula-is-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-success-by-michael-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"Count Dracula Is Sucking The Life Out Of Your Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Michael Cheney - personal development expert\" title=\"Michael Cheney - personal development expert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/michael-cheney-08.jpg\" \/>This is a classic momentum-killer that you will have used, just like me, on numerous occasions. The first step to recognizing and solving a problem is to own up to it right?<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen the kids&#8217; TV program Sesame Street? There&#8217;s a character on there called The Count. He&#8217;s like Count Dracula and he..well, he counts. &#8220;1 &#8211; 2 &#8211; 3 ha ha ha!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so wrong with counting you say?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing. Nothing unless it is killing your momentum and stopping you getting what you want from life. Which it often does. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/02\/count-dracula-is-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-success-by-michael-cheney\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Count Dracula Is Sucking The Life Out Of Your Success\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}