One of the most empowering things you can do in your life is simply stop pointing out and point in.

It's to acknowledge you are the problem and the solution. One of my favorite stories is from Chris Rock.

He talks about being broken down on the side of the road and how he sits there and people drive by. and they look at him and they see his situation

and they keep going and it used to bother him right i need help and these people are blatantly

disregarding that but what he found is when he got out and he got behind his car on the side of the road and he pushed, people helped.

People pulled over. People wanted to be a part of it because people want to help those who help themselves.

One of the best things you can give yourself in life is to take extreme ownership for everything around you, to understand that the manifestation of all your

decision making has led you to your current situations.

And the bad things are because of you and the good things are because of you.

You are the problem and you are the solution.

And the most common response is, yeah, but I mean, sometimes you get dealt a hand, you can't control.

You can't control your economic situation when you're born. Some health situations in your life. The people around, I mean,

there are things that they are not your fault. But I'll tell you what.

They are your problem.

And when you own them, when you say they are because of me,

when you take extreme ownership, as Jocko would say,

of everything around you,

it puts you in a position to then change it. It places you in the driver's seat.

You can get yourself out. If you want to empower yourself for the rest of your life, look yourself

in the mirror and decide you will never be a victim.

Period.

Things aren't just the way they are.

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