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

Mediocrity. Well, just the word, man, just kind of makes you cringe a little bit. I mean, kind of chills down your spine sometimes.

It's really an uninspiring word. If you look it up in the dictionary, it says average, ordinary,

not outstanding. There you go. Average ordinary, not outstanding. I mean,

come on, based on that, I mean, mediocrity sucks, right? It's just who wants to be mediocre? But here's

the thing. Nobody's born that way. All right, you could look at a birth certificate. It doesn't say

game changer on it. Doesn't say playmaker. Doesn't say caretaker. It doesn't say undertaker. Doesn't say mediocre or anything in between. Right. At the end of the day, mediocrity is a choice. Mediocrity is a choice. I mean, you look at the first two letters. It begins with what? It begins with

ME. Mediocrity begins with me. It begins with bad decisions. Yeah, you can have conditions that

set you back. We all go through it, right? You don't have to tell anybody your sad story. I promise

you they have one too. And it's probably worse than yours. All right. And so we all go through

stuff. We all have conditions that affect us. Absolutely. In fact, in my seminars, I asked people to

raise their hand if they've ever been through one or more of the following challenges. And I start to

name them off, a health challenge,

a relationship challenge, a friendship challenge, a job challenge, a financial challenge, a marriage

challenge. I mean, some people are like eight for eight. If I kept going, they'd be 102 for 102.

And you look around the room and everybody's got their hands up. And so the point is,

look, we all go through a lot of stuff, right? Now, some people, to greater degrees than others,

this one might have really had to struggle financially and this one had some really serious health

issues. But we all go through stuff. So why do we end up in different places? We all go through a lot of similar

conditions. We're really not that different at the end of the day. Over the course of our life,

we go through a lot of similar stuff. Why does some people end up at the top, some in the middle,

some never get unstuck from the bottom? Well, at the end of the day, people don't like to talk

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