#585: Bad Breaks Or Bad Decisions
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Are your setbacks really bad breaks—or the result of small daily decisions stacking up against you? In this episode, Dave reveals how your attitude, standards, and choices quietly shape your outcomes—and what to change before they cost you more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all |
| 0:22.3 | aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Gora Hills, California studio. |
| 0:33.0 | The topic I want to share with you today is bad breaks or bad decisions. Years ago, I was visiting with the relative many years ago, |
| 0:41.3 | and he was getting up there in age and he was lamenting about his life, |
| 0:46.3 | about all the bad luck he'd had and all the bad breaks that he'd encountered |
| 0:51.3 | and how he could have been this or could have done that and maybe |
| 0:55.9 | should have been there. |
| 0:57.1 | And I just had to, you know, do what I do. I said, you know, man, I said, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I just make friends like that everywhere I go, by the way. |
| 1:09.2 | And, and, you know, but you've got to get people looking in the mirror. |
| 1:12.7 | If they keep looking out the window, but you've got to get people looking in the mirror. |
| 1:12.7 | If they keep looking out the window, they're not going to fix anything. |
| 1:15.3 | The answer is in the mirror. |
| 1:16.9 | So it's like, the good news is, I said, if you start making better ones, like now, and |
| 1:22.4 | blaming isn't one of them, you can create a different future. |
| 1:26.5 | But basically, where you're at right now is an accumulation |
| 1:29.7 | of daily decisions you've made over time that have compounded. And here we are, whether it's good |
| 1:35.2 | or bad. I mean, success, as Jim Rohn famously said, is not an accident. It's just the simple |
| 1:43.9 | accumulation of right decisions done daily over time. |
| 1:47.8 | He also said failure is not an accident. |
| 1:52.0 | It's simply an accumulation of wrong decisions, bad decisions, |
| 1:56.9 | done daily accumulating and eventually it catches up with you, |
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