It’s on You

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

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We're going to talk about taking personal ownership over stuff.

In life, there's a lot of things that happen that are out of your control.

But I think a lot of things in life are within our control.

If we can learn to own what's going on, it's easy to pass blame.

We can blame the weather.

We can blame holidays.

We can blame.

We don't feel as well.

You can blame the leads.

You can blame another person.

It's so easy to put blame on everything else.

What I've learned about the winners, they find a way to look at their

percentage of what needs to happen and only own that percentage.

They can work on things that are outside of their control.

We can work on things that can get better out there.

But if you're looking at all the reasons why you're not as successful as you want to be,

by looking at other people, places and things and pointing out there, you're not taking

the amount of time that it takes to focus on the things that are in your control because

there's a percentage that you can control typically in a lot of different scenarios.

So I saw a quote by a coach that said, I can't be the only reason why we're successful,

but I can be the reason why we fail.

That's leadership for you.

To be in leadership, you can play a huge part in winning and growing, but you've got

to have the right players, you've got to have the right people.

But that's a coach saying, I can't be the reason why we're successful, but I can be

the reason why we fail.

That's taken ownership on himself and realizing how important leadership is and the way

that you can dictate, you can determine a loss at times with your leadership.

And so I think the focus of it is, you could start out with being a person of your word,

right?

So not all of life is going to work out the way that we want it to work out.

Not all things in life are going to play out the way that we want them to play out and

we could give it our best and sometimes we fall short.

But are you a man or woman of your word more often than you're not, especially when

it comes to business transactions?

There's a credit score.

Everybody is aware of out in the world that you have a certain credit score.

Are you paying your bills or are you paying your bills on time?

If you buy something on credit and you owe something, we can count on you to pay it back.

The same thing goes on in business transactions of there's not necessarily a score that you

can go to to pull up a person's score.

Although I wish there was is a credit score of the way that you do business of if you make

a promise to something, if you make a commitment, I'm going to do this amount or I'm going to

do this much, try to be right more than your own.

You know sometimes you may aim real big and you come up short.

That's part of the game.

But if you're wrong as much as you're right and you don't hit as much as you do hit, that

means it's a 50% coin toss and that's not going to give you a good credit score out there.

And so I think in focusing on being someone that hits their commitments, it never takes

really a casual approach.

You've heard me say before, casually creates casualties, doing things casually at times can

create casualties, especially if you're in an important position.

There has to be a sense of urgency.

So you picture yourself as a, you know, I look at the chiefs or whatever teams in the

Super Bowl this year, you know, it's the chiefs and they got the ball.

There's a couple minutes left and they got to drive it all the way down the field.

That's you got to have a sense of urgency.

If you got to spike the ball, if you got to call time out, if you got to dive, it's just

a little bit different when it's the fourth quarter with the game on the line.

In the Hall of Famers and the Game Changers and the All Stars and the people that you talk

about, those people all find a way to win.

And when, when they find a way to win, it's creating a sense of urgency in the right moments

during games and typically it's pressure field moments that's created from a sense of urgency.

And so you should take your job the exact same way and take ownership over where you're currently

at, what you could do to dictate the outcome of your situation and outcome of the game.

Coachable people like in leadership, you'll notice people that are coachable, they allow

you to pour into them and to help them become their best.

But a lot of people like to think that they're coachable but they're not coachable.

They can't absorb what it is that you're telling them because they get offended.

Now part of that is, you got to try to do your best with the delivery.

But more of that is on the player.

It's almost like taking your medicine.

Sometimes you might need to take some medicine to get better but it may not taste as good

going down but the outcome is sweet.

Sometimes you can't be so soft as a player that the coach has to deliver it perfectly

in order for you to receive it and to change your life.

And a lot of that coachability aspect of it also comes with taking responsibility for

things and ownership for things.

So there was something I saw somebody say, even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.

So sometimes people may worry about who's fault it is.

So for example, let's say I'm Patrick Mahomes, I'm the Kansas City Chiefs and I know

not everybody's a football fan so I'm talking about the Super Bowl winning this year in the

game of football, the team that won the Super Bowl during the course of the season, they

showed glimpses of not being able to win a Super Bowl and they were losing in the game.

And so when you look at it, if we were putting blame on someone, let's say the leader of

the team is Patrick Mahomes or the coach of the team Andy Reed, they're blaming other

players for why they're not winning or why they're in the situation that they're in.

But you can't focus on taking control of what you got to do if you're blaming on what

other.

It may not be your fault that we're losing, but it's your responsibility to bring us back

as the captain, as the MVP, as the leader.

That's why if it was easy, everybody be doing it.

It's not always as much fun as it looks.

The people that are winning, the people that are leading teams to titles, the coaches that

are bearing the pressure of all these people that they're responsible for, it sounds good to be

the boss.

It may be cool to have some of the perks of being the leader, but it also the perks come

with a lot of pressure.

And the people that get the perks typically handle the pressure well multiple times before

they get the perks, but it always comes with pressure.

And the pressure is that that it may not be your fault, but it's still your responsibility.

And so it's your responsibility.

Look at what inside of you, when things in life happen in business or personally, life

is not fair, right?

So if you look at a problem and you're like, this is a problem and it's not all my fault.

What part of this problem can you own?

Can you own 20% of the problem?

10% of the problem?

The growth is in what you can take ownership of and learn from.

So I'll take this is what I can learn from.

This is my percentage of the problem because that's your responsibility.

That's the only thing you can control.

The stuff that's not your fault, the stuff that's not your, in your control, you can't

control it.

You know, I was hearing an example of, so for, you know, if someone leaves a baby on

your doorstep like a baby a couple months old, it's not your fault that the baby's there,

but it's your responsibility to get that baby to safety.

So it may not be, we're not talking about what your fault is right now.

We're talking about taking ownership over the things that are your responsibility.

Whatever you blame, you give power to.

Whatever you're blaming, you give power to.

So we're going to blame the government.

It's the president's fault.

It's the government's fault.

We're going to blame the leads in a sales business.

It's always the leads fault, the leads, the leads, the leads.

We're going to blame the leads.

We need to blame ourselves.

It may not be your fault, but it's your problem and you're the only one that can change it.

The growth zone is in taking accountability and responsibility to focus on the things

that are within your control that you can control, which typically is two definite things.

Like if you're wondering, man, what the heck is in my control?

Seems like it's not a lot in my control.

What are the two things in your control?

One is your effort.

Are you giving the maximum amount of effort that you could possibly give?

Are you outworking your peers?

One to ten.

Be real with yourself.

How much effort are you putting in?

Like right now, don't just zone out on me.

One to ten.

Make yourself on your effort in the thing that you want to be graded.

Second thing was the attitude.

Your attitude determines your latitude.

We all heard that one before, right?

Your attitude is something that's in your control.

Your attitude has a lot to do with your perspective.

Your perspective of the poor me is always going to get you cut short of looking at all how

bad you got it.

How much everything's against you, how bad the hand that your dealt is, all the poor

me that perspective is going to get you an L.

That's going to give you a loss.

The other perspective is how much better that you got it than somebody else.

I might be sick but I ain't that sick.

I might be down but I ain't that down.

The leaves might not be as good but they ain't that bad.

They're better than a whole bunch of other people's situation.

My situation is better than a whole bunch of other people's situation.

The cars that I'm dealt, they're not perfect but this hand I'm dealt is better than the hand.

A lot of other people are dealt and I'm grateful for these things and here is it is possible for

me.

It may be difficult but it is possible.

Those perspective is going to determine a lot of your attitude.

You can't build a positive life with the negative attitude.

You've got to get this man.

This takes so much work.

It's so much work because 70% are, I forget the percentage of people's thoughts and things

that they got to weed out of their life or negative thoughts.

For everyone negative thought you got to feed yourself like seven positive thoughts.

There's just the world and humans and us and things by nature give into negativity.

It's so much easier to be negative.

It's so much easier to blame.

You can actually even make sense of a lot of it.

It's not your fault but it's your responsibility.

You can make sense out of it, right?

You can make this excuse.

You can make this reason.

You can make all these obstacles.

Whatever.

You can make sense out of all of it.

Where is that going to get you?

Is that going to get you the result you're looking for?

Is that going to get you the solution you're looking for?

Nine times out of ten or more, it's going to be your attitude looking at the perspective

positively coupled with hard-ass work that's going to get you to where you want to be.

And understanding that regardless of the hand you're dealt, regardless of the circumstances

that is on us to take responsibility and ownership over our life and over the things that we

could do to get better.

And it's painful.

It's painful to look at the things that you could do better.

It's painful to admit the things that you did wrong.

It's a harder road and a journey to look at all the reasons why you could have been successful

when you weren't in the things that are in your control that you need to do better.

It's so much easier to just put the blame on things and accept reasons.

But I'm trying to tell you that to go to elevated levels in the heights, your brain.

It's so powerful if you allow your brain to be powerful if you feed your brain in excuse

It's gonna accept these excuses and it'll stop finding solutions

But if you don't feed your brain any excuses and it's only turned on to the fact of I got to find a solution

I got to find a solution. I got to find a solution

Your brain's gonna find solutions a lot of times if you allow that power to play out in your life because you're

Bless with it the the human brain

We got computers. We got watches. We got all types of cool

Technology and things that are happening right now, but man

There ain't nothing like the human brain and the human body how powerful that the human makeup is that the especially the brain

Right, and so they say you know

I don't know what the percentage is they say you know whatever percentage we use

We don't use the full percentage of our brain. We're only using a 40% or 20% or

Whatever's the there's a lot of of our brain that's not being used. We have so much in our brain

So much power we could fit in our brain so much more that we could fit in our mind if we don't just stop at the

Excuser at the obstacle at the hardship, but we open up our mind to the possibilities when we take ownership

So let's take ownership today

In that circumstance. I know I know things out there. It can be difficult and many things aren't your fault

We can get the poor me's over it

And be justified in doing it

But it's not gonna get you to where you want to be so today

I want us to break the hood on we're gonna focus on staying positive

Bringing that effort bringing that attitude and taking ownership over every part of your life that you could look and find ways

On how can I get better? What can I do to grow here? What am I supposed to learn here?

How can I play my part and try to come through with your commitments as often as you possibly can?

Okay, thank you all for joining us on another episode of the grindcast get ready. It's a new day