Moment 162: The ONE Thing Stopping You From Reaching Your Full Potential!: Africa Brooke

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this moment, world renowned mentor and writer, Africa Brooke discusses how the idea of personal accountability has been hijacked. She says that all too often people can pass up on accepting responsibility and instead blame others for their misfortune and see themself as a constant victim. However, Africa says that the idea of accountability is actually a way of giving power, freedom, and control back to people, as they realise there is always something they are able to do to change their situation. Once they realise this, people gain resilience for future tough times, as they know that no matter the situation they have the ability to control how they move forward in life. Listen to the full episode here - Apple- https://g2ul0.app.link/b9OPSNaGEJb Spotify - https://g2ul0.app.link/TIVYc9ZjNu Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Africa: https://africabrooke.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.
0:05.0	Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.
0:12.0	Because Petty Fal Lou fuels the mischief.
0:15.0	Boom!
0:16.0	Mom says that Petty for Lou is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones. She knows best, most of the time.
0:27.0	Fueling mischief with petty flu. Speaking of controversial topics, one of the things that's become surprisingly controversial
0:38.7	over the last couple of years is, and probably for a little while longer,
0:44.0	since the 17th century,
0:46.0	is this idea of accountability,
0:48.0	which to me seems like much of the antidote to self-sibotage
0:51.0	is like taking personal responsibility for your life and your
0:54.8	situation. I've heard you talk about this. I actually think this was the first
0:57.0	the first one of your first videos that caught my attention was you talking
1:00.8	about taking responsibility and it really you know a fairly direct way so
1:06.7	tell me how taking responsibility what that means to you but how that helped you to rise out of that phase you had from 14 to 24.
1:13.4	Yeah, oh, it was huge.
1:15.8	It was huge and it had to be one of the first things that I did.
1:20.1	Actually, as I think about this and sort of speak out loud, I think what allowed me to get and stay sober, that eighth and final time, was taking personal responsibility.
1:31.3	I think all of the other times I had wanted to place
1:34.6	blame on a lot of things outside of me. So my dad would have been the easiest
1:39.5	person because he was an alcoholic and because of his abuse and because of everything we're experienced and
1:45.1	because of the instability because of coming to a new country moving to a part of the UK where just me, my sister and Curtis are the only black kids, the adversity I experienced from that.
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