Your Destiny Is in Your Hands | Alan Sugar #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation.

Today's message is: Your destiny is in your hands. Over to you, Alan Sugar.

I don't wish to alienate people here about what I'm about to say. But you know, your destiny is in your hands, and I succeeded because I had to. No one sorted anything out for me. I didn't ask to go to any government and said, "Pretty please, find me some work, please, and do something for me," because it was a waste of bloody time. Simply that, a waste of time. And if I was going to do something, I had to do it myself. That's it. And I would say to every one of you here, don't sit around relying upon magically some government going to create an environment that's going to make it easy for you to find work and find jobs. You've got to go out there and fight for it yourself. I'm sorry to say I can't give you any other any other form of advice. If you want something bad enough, you do it. And if you look at some of these wannabes that make themselves television stars and pop stars and all that type of stuff, they have a desire to want to be famous and they don't stop until they're recognized and they do. And half the people that you see on television these days in the entertainment industry are those that had a determination that wanted to do it. And I'll add a little rider to that: none of them can bloody sing. Not helpful, right? I mean, you didn't find that helpful answer, but you're gonna control your destiny. I'm telling you, no one else is gonna do it. Not unless you got a rich dad. Have you got a rich dad? A rich uncle? No? Well then, that's it, you're gonna have to do it yourself.

So what do you think?

Yeah, I think if you want to make something happen, it's up to you. It's with your hands, which I'm a big big fan of the power is in your hands. So this message to me, it really speaks to me for sure.

I think, uh, we were chatting about environment and how important that is. I think too many people blame their circumstances on why they're not successful. You know, you have these big dreams for what you want to accomplish and you say, well, I can't do that because my family isn't the right family, or I don't have the right education, or I'm not smart enough, or I don't have enough money to do it. And it's just a constant blaming of the circumstances in your as opposed to you saying, I'm responsible for what I want to do and not blaming other people. It's easy to blame, right? You're never gonna blame yourself. You're not gonna say, oh, I'm the reason why I'm not successful. It's always the government or taxes or something. You're blaming somebody else. But the moment that you take responsibility for your life and realize that a lot of the most successful people in the world rose out of terrible circumstances, and they wouldn't have done that if they just continue to believe that they where they were born is where they're going to end up. And I think the message is similar where if you take responsibility, if you actually believe that you can change your future and you start acting that way and stop blaming other people, then you're much more likely to realize your dreams.

Totally agree. Yeah, let go of that victim mentality. I think sometimes we don't realize we're even doing it. Like, we're mad at something that our boss says to us or that our client did to us, and if we just kind of reframe it in our head and think about what we can do to change it, then, you know, all of a sudden you realize realize you have the power in your hands.

Cool, so the question of the day today is: What are you gonna do to change your destiny? Oh, I like that one. We're going deep. Jen takes us deep. Leave in the comments below, we'll join the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing day.

Continue to believe, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.