Take Extreme Ownership

Tired of playing the blame game? It's time to take control and stop making excuses. Discover how adopting a mindset of personal responsibility can transform your entrepreneurial journey. We'll break down the importance of taking ownership—from your health to your business success—and explore actionable steps you can start implementing today. Learn how to respond constructively to setbacks and stressors, and why your reactions, not circumstances, define your path to success.

Join me, Chris Anderson, on the Elevate Media Podcast as I challenge you to abandon the victim mentality and commit to the hard work necessary for achieving your goals. Through real-life examples and insightful advice, I'll show you how your choices shape your outcomes. Whether you're struggling with fitness, business results, or just everyday stress, this episode is your wake-up call to stop the excuses and start taking actionable steps toward the life you desire. Get ready to elevate your journey and embrace the power of personal responsibility!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to the Elevate Media Podcast with your host, chris Anderson. In this show, chris and his guests will share their knowledge and experience on how to go from zero to successful entrepreneur. They have built their businesses from scratch and are now ready to give back to those who are just starting. Let's get ready to learn, grow and elevate our businesses. And now your host, chris Anderson.

Speaker 2: 0:24

Welcome back to the Elevate Media Podcast. I'm Chris Anderson, your host, and today I want to dive into excuses. I've heard a handful of excuses lately from people and it's just, you know. I think we need another wake up call. Maybe, you know, I'm not perfect. I've made excuses and I do still. I try to catch myself and not do that, but at the end of the day, excuses are just that, they're just excuses.

Speaker 2: 0:47

We have to take ownership of everything in our life. Right, it's on us. We can't rely on someone else to do it for us. We can't rely on our parents to grow our business. We can't rely on our trainers to get us healthy. We can't rely on X, y and Z to make whatever it is in life better. You know it's on us. If you're fat and overweight, change your actions. If you're not getting the results in business, get off your rear end. Stop being lazy and take more of the right action towards growing it. Stop making excuses If you're not as good in your sport as someone else. Spend more hours in the gym, spend more hours on the field practicing and getting better.

Speaker 2: 1:37

We can't keep blaming other people for things in our lives. We have to take the action to get things done and to get the results we want. If I'm stressed and anxious, I'm not going to blame anyone else. I've got to take action to get rid of that stress and anxiety, whether that be spending more time praying, having more breaks to just be in silence and let that stimulus die down. Go walk outside. Just be in silence and let that stimulus die down. Go walk outside, like I have the choice to do what needs to be done.

Speaker 2: 2:10

Okay. So we have to stop blaming our circumstances, our environments, other people for things that happen in our lives. You know, something is nasty to you. Don't allow it to affect you, you know, because that's that's not going to do any good either. So our choices are our own. Our results are reflected from our choices, not anyone else's choices. Well, you know, but Chris, like that person cut me off and rear-ended me, or I rear-ended them and now I've that will.

Speaker 2: 2:49

Okay, it's still up to you. What do you do next? How do you respond? That's your choice. Their action is their action. It happened. Now what's your response? Are you going to let it just continue to be negative in your life, tear you down? If it's a, could it be where you could get another job, apply for another job, start a business to make more money, like there are all ways out of it. But at the end of the day, either people don't want to put in the work and the effort, they don't want to get uncomfortable to do that, and so it's just easier to say, oh, but blah, blah, blah, they did this, or I don't have that, or whatever it is.

Speaker 2: 3:30

So stop living in the excuses, in that victim mindset, and stop saying I need to do this, I need to do that and never do it. Just figure out what you want and make a solid statement and goal that you're going to hit and then start freaking, taking action on it. Stop just twiddling your thumbs and hoping it will happen, and it's not going to be easy. Just twiddling your thumbs and hoping it'll happen, and it's not going to be easy. It can be simple, and I say this all the time it is not going to be easy. Anything worth it is not going to be easy. Otherwise everyone would have it or everyone would be at that point.

Speaker 2: 4:05

You look at someone who's in way better shape than you. Oh, it's just genetics. Sure, genetics plays a little bit into it, but I guarantee you their diet, their workouts and everything they do is way past what you're doing to try to get there. And you probably try to do it and probably give up, because you're just all about your excuses and wanting to blame other things or, you know, put it on someone else. So stop doing that.

Speaker 2: 4:32

You got to stop doing that, stop having excuses, stop blaming other people, get out of that victim mindset and set the goals you want and go towards them. And guess what? Again, it's not gonna be easy and you're gonna lose friendships. You're gonna lose people in your life who don't understand and who don't want to be there and who don't want to work at the same level. And that's just separation, and that's just part of it. You know they're there for a chapter, they're there for a period and eventually you'll connect with the ones who are at the same level, same frequency, same mindset as you, same work ethic, and it's just. You know there's times and places for everything.

Speaker 2: 5:07

And so you've got to decide and you've got to take action. And you've got to decide and you've got to take action and you've got to stop making excuses, um of why you're not where you want to be, and you got to go out there and start changing your destiny right now, because it's in your hands. So I just wanted to kind of go on a rant on the hat a little bit today because it just again. I'm not perfect at it, but it's frustrating to see people who can clearly make differences in their lives blaming others, blaming other circumstances, and just not taking action. So don't let that be you. Make a goal, make a choice, make a choice and start taking action towards it. So, but until next time, continue to go out there, elevate your life, elevate your business. We'll talk to you again soon.

Speaker 1: 5:52

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