DEF 06: You Can't Control Other People. You Can Only Control You.

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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When we fail to do what we are supposed to do, it hurts us to admit it's our fault.

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0:00.0	Discipline equals Freedom.
0:01.6	Episode 6, sitting here with Echo Charles.
0:07.2	A blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
0:09.6	Words, words, words, excuses, excuses, excuse, excuse, why do we do that?
0:16.0	What do we do that? What do we do that?
0:18.0	I can tell you a big reason, a very prominent reason,
0:21.0	why we're making excuses,
0:22.0	why we're blah, blah, we're blah blah blah blah.
0:24.2	It's because of our ego.
0:26.5	When something goes wrong, when we don't do what we're supposed to do,
0:29.6	when we fail in terms of our discipline on a daily basis when we fail when we drop the ball
0:36.0	when we don't get it done it hurts our ego to admit that it was us. So we use a bunch of
0:44.4	of blah blah blah blah and blah and sometimes we blame inanimate objects
0:49.7	which is kind of comical and kind of ridiculous, right?
0:53.0	People blame inanimate objects for their own shortfalls in life,
0:57.2	okay?
0:57.7	The donut somehow snuck into my mouth.
1:04.0	Right? Sure, yeah.
1:05.0	It's the donut's fault that I'm freaking just,
1:08.0	I got powdered sugar all over my face right now.
1:10.0	It's the donut's fault.
1:11.0	Or the alarm clock decided it wasn't
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