Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. I want to talk about

refuse the bait of bitterness. Refuse the bait of bitterness. Boy, sometimes there's a lot you can get bitter about. I mean, some people, they'll tell you everything they're bitter about. They talk about it all the time. You can finish their sentences for them. They take out their list. Some of them don't need to take out a list. They've said it so often. They haven't memorized.

But it's the lost job.

It's the breakup. Didn't make the team. Didn't get enough playing time. Didn't win the game. Didn't get credit. Someone else got my credit. Got passed over. Right? Demoted. Rejected. Disrespected. Dismissed. Ignored. uninvited, underappreciated, unappreciated,

insulted, dumped on,

and now someone got away with something and I'm ticked off and the list goes on.

A lot of opportunities to get bitter.

If you look up the word bitter or bitterness, it talks about anger and disappointment for being treated unfairly or seeing another treated unfairly.

And here's the deal. Sometimes you have a right to be angry or disappointed. Sometimes what happened was just flat out wrong. Shouldn't have happened. Person got away with it. Maybe they didn't. Regardless, still shouldn't have happened. Man, I have the right to be angry. I have the right to be disappointed. Here's my question. Where's that taking you? What's it doing for you? Where's that anger and disappointment moving you? Closer to your ideal self, your ideal life, your game changer life, or is it making it harder to get there? So you have the right to do it. I'm not saying it. You don't have the right to do it. I mean, it's your choice, right? I just want to get you thinking, what's it doing for you? Is it an ally or an adversary, right? Bitterness. I say, don't take the bait. I mean, there are a lot of opportunities to be bitter. I'm just asking you if it's worth it.

A lot of stuff just doesn't matter that much, you know, but you're so addicted to being right

or putting someone in their place or having the last word or entering and winning every debate.

Some people are just, their mind is wired in this way.

And man, they're just this old wound up, bound up ball of bitterness. You can just see them

coming. They just, you just look at them. They just look so uptight. Their whole body looks like

one big zit ready to bust, man. And they just come in your way. You don't want to get too

close to them in case it does. What a way to live.

Not good for your health either, by the way, bitterness. So where's it taking you? I'll tell you

where it's not taken you. It's not taking into the game changer life. Because if you remember,

when we talk about this, and it's going to be a lot of this is in my book Unstoppable. I talk

about the game changer. The book will be out

in September of 2017. And I talk about the difference between the playmaker and the game

changer, quite frankly, is the game changer is more consistently bringing a bunch of stuff to the

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