A short motivational monologue by Dean Graziosi about how the dominant voice in your head shapes your day and week. Graziosi contrasts scarcity-focused thoughts (complaints about circumstances, losses, external blame) with a resourceful, empowered mindset, arguing that choosing empowering thoughts lets you 'attack the day' rather than play defense. The piece emphasizes resourcefulness as a key trait for entrepreneurs and successful people.
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What's the loudest voice in your head today that'll tell you how your day is going to be? Probably tell you how your week's going to be? If it's the voice of I can't believe this is happening. Nobody appreciates me. This is a tough time to get things done. In the old days, we could have made money at that high level, but not in this economy, not with this government, not with this craziness. If you're focusing on what you don't have, what you missed out, what you lost, that's exactly what you're going to get, and that's exactly how you'll feel. Or you could focus on maybe I was put in this situation so I could be the man or woman I was designed to be, that I have way more assets than I realized, that I could be resourceful. If I'm lacking resources. Resourcefulness is the greatest gift any entrepreneur, any successful person, can have. What if today you got rid of that horrible thinking and replaced it with thinking that empowers you, makes you feel alive, so you get to attack the day rather than play defense? Our mind, our thoughts, they're everything.
