Stop Arguing for Your Limitations and Start Betting on Yourself

Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you're having a great morning. I have a special treat for you today. I have a little clip from Les Brown, who is probably my number one go-to when it comes to creating some motivation, awareness, education in my life. I've been listening to Les for quite a while. He's spoken for me. I've had some great talks with him, had some great live visits. I'll tell you what, this guy has got it figured out. He's got the right amount of humor and information in order to really get you thinking about what you need to do to change your life. And here's the thing. There's a short clip I want to play for you where he talks about where most of us are finding ways to negotiate our life. Because he says, when you argue for your limitations, you actually keep them. And he kind of encourages us to beware of the but. You know, you don't like what's going on in your life, but you try to change things, but the bottom line is, but is definitely the dream killer. And it's the word we use when we argue for our limitations. And, you know, I love what he talks about because he says something that I truly believe, and that is there's no guarantees in life. And if you want to be able to create your life and ultimately create the best version of yourself and the best version of the life that you were meant to live, you've got to take control. You've got to bet on yourself. You have to stop pretending that everything's okay. You've got to stop pretending that everything is outside your influence and outside your ability to make a change because you have much more power to influence, control, shape, and basically drive the direction of your life than you give yourself credit for. You have a lot of talents. You have a lot of abilities. You have a lot of innate, you know, natural skills that you probably just have not truly leveraged and developed. And I really believe that it's time that you realize that, you know, you've got to start betting on yourself. You've got to start pursuing and chasing your dreams. Stop setting your dreams aside, especially as you get older in life. A lot of us, we sort of start to believe we can't achieve what we want to achieve. and we start to forget that whatever the mind of man and woman can believe, it can achieve. And I think it's really important to surround yourself with the right messaging. Stuff like or people like Les Brown. And so I hope you enjoy this today. I hope this is something that inspires you, motivates you a little bit more and gives you a little something to brighten your day. I appreciate you listening. If this is your first time listening, do me a favor and share this podcast so that we can grow our community and we can share this message with people that need it There a lot of people out there that need the inspiration and motivation on a day basis just like we all do So I appreciate you doing that Enjoy the message and I talk with you more tomorrow Have a great day. Now, the reason I brought that up is I was writing with a friend the other day, and I know this friend of mine who has been working on a job where she's been miserable for a long time. She was telling me about how she was miserable on the job and how she was so unhappy. So I said, if it's that stressful and if it's causing you that much pain, I say, why don't you just quit and do something else? And she said something that really put her in the chorus line with a lot of other people. She said, I would, but. And then I started thinking about that. I said, let me take a poll. so I started talking to other people and I would ask them what they were doing and I said but is that your passion and they would say no I said then what's your real passion and they would tell me what their real passion was then I said well then why aren't you doing what you really want to do oh I can do it but and they would continue on so this word you know but just kept on coming up and then it also has some friends like woulda and coulda and shoulda and one day I'm gonna have my own business those people who talk about one day I'm gonna some of y'all know some of those one day I'm going to people up raise your hand some of you get up in the morning look in the mirror that person I just tease it I just see that right so how is it that many times we block ourselves and And we use these words almost like we're in a trance, like we're sleepwalking through life, that we find ways to cancel out our dreams. And I think that but is a dream killer, that a lot of things that we want to do, a lot of places we would like to go, a lot of things we would like to experience, and we just stop at but. And we build a case. In fact, I was reading something the other day that talked about but. it says but is an argument for our limitations and when we argue for our limitations we get to keep them see but will cause you to procrastinate but will cause you to hide out behind fear but will cause you to come up with all type of excuses that you can validate your inaction and not acting on your dream and right now more than ever people need to look for ways to live their dream people need to look for ways to make it on their own there is no such thing as job security there's no such thing as a storm proof or tragic proof life there are no guarantees today ladies and gentlemen the illusion is gone there was a time when when we graduated from high school you told go to college and get out and you go and work for a corporation for 30 or 40 years give your go watch and you retire special announcement that day is gone that day is gone never to return again so instead of people living in fear feeling stressed out feeling powerless feeling like victims i think it should be a time that we need to begin to look at ways that we can become an active force in our own lives look at ways when we can decide to take charge of our own destiny look at ways when we can decide to design a life of substance and begin to truly live our dreams and it's time for people to decide i'm ready to get on with my life shake somebody's hand on your right and left a guy named Bob may say this thing. Don't let nobody turn you around. Do that right quick. Now, you know, a lot of people say, I'm going to live my life one day when things get right. When I get on my bills paid. When I get my feet on the ground. I say, what have you been walking on? See, there are no problem-free moments. A guy named Dimples had a record one time called, If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another. And I say, if it ain't one thing, it's 12 others. Always something there to build a case on why you can't move on, why you can't grow to the next level, why you can't begin to manifest your greatness, why you can't begin to live life on your terms. always something there to block you to keep you where you are and keep you from beginning to develop your true greatness always some fear how do we handle it and I'm saying that if you've been hiding out behind but if you've been using the fact that you don't have enough money or you don't have the education take it head on go get the education I was saying to a guy the other day who was saying he I said how old are you he says 47 years old I said your sister tell me that you can't read he said that's right I said why well you know I didn't go to school excuse me how old are you I'm 47 47 yes and you can't read or write yes have you ever heard of adult school adult education have you decided that you should learn how to read to begin to expand your world why are you using that as a racket why don't you decide now that you're going to expand your world that if other people can learn you could learn too well it's hard for me how do you have you been in sitting a class yet have you signed up yet no I haven't see a lot of people say no ladies and gentlemen to things and they don even know what they saying no to They haven even challenged themselves He hasn even gone to sit into a class and say teach me how to read. Instead, it's been easier for him to go through life, he thinks, trying to play a whole con game, pretending he knows how to do something that he doesn't know how to do. And you know what? Most of us go through life like that. most of us go through life pretending pretending that we're satisfied where we are pretending that everything is okay pretending that that we don't have any special goals or ambitions or desires when really deep down inside we do really want more but if you look at our behavior if you judge based upon what we do that really will tell you some true stories about people because you have to judge a tree by the fruit it bears not the fruit that it talks about see a lot of people pretend that they want more out of life, but all you have to do is watch their actions. That will tell you something. So I used to pretend that I wanted to lose weight, but how could you tell I was pretending? Watch me when I have a piece of sweet potato pie. let me get within walking distance of some peanuts some potato chips see i was pretending that i really wanted to lose weight no you just watch what i eat i'll tell you what i'm seriously committed to people will tell you oh yeah one day i want to have a restaurant see they're pretending they want to go into business for them said they're not serious how can you tell less watch their actions watch what they're doing the proof is in the pudding so if you want to do something if you thought about something you want to do take it head-on decide that you're going to start looking at it start doing research on it start tackling it start becoming involved in whatever and wherever it might lead you to begin to explore the possibilities in that particular thing that you're seeking so that you can begin to learn all you can about it decide that you're gonna face it that whatever shortcomings you have that you're gonna strengthen yourself there whatever training that's required that you're gonna go get that training but you're gonna get started right now the George Washington cover would say do what you can where you are with what you have and never be satisfied sb fuller used to say and I heard Joe Dudley talk about always trying to be more than that which you are yeah don't get satisfied with yourself always know that wherever you are you can enjoy more that you deserve more but most people you know they do most people go through life quietly and safely tiptoeing to an early grade