A short motivational monologue arguing that failures are the individual's responsibility rather than the result of "luck." The speaker rejects belief in luck, ties success to effort and providing market value, and advises listeners to stop blaming others and instead take control by accepting personal accountability.
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This is why your failures are completely your fault and no one else's. Back in the day, when I wasn't as successful as I was today, I always struggled with a victim mentality. If you're in a place where you're not making the level of income that you want to make, it's because you're not providing enough value to the marketplace to make people want to buy what it is that you sell. So instead of blaming other people, which casts power away from you, focus on blaming yourself, because that's something you can control. Think about if you're saying, that successful person, they were so lucky. Think about how disempowering that thought is, saying, hey, they were lucky, they got lucky. It's luck. It's not luck. I don't believe in luck. Usually the people who put the most work in the most volume, they work the hardest. Those are the people who get lucky, quote, unquote. Stop blaming other people for your lack of success. Start blaming yourself, because then you can actually do something about it and control it, and you have control over your own life, and it's a very empowering thought.