Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

⚠️ Balance Is Just Mediocrity 🧠🔥

16 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Larry Weidel (recorded/posted Jan 16, 2026) arguing that constant balance produces mediocrity. He claims life requires ups and downs to appreciate success, and that one must commit energy fully to an effort ("slam that thing down") to discover whether it makes a difference.

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If you stay balanced forever, what does that mean? Nothing ever changes if the teeter totter never goes up or down. Life is nothing but ups and downs. And you can't enjoy the ups. You can't really understand how great the ups are unless you've been through the downs. So if you keep everything balanced all the time, just ho hum. Another word for balance is mediocrity. So if you want to just have a medium mediocrity life all the time, stay balanced. But at some point you got to, you know, slam that thing down one side or the other. Because until you do, until you put all your energy in something for a long enough period of time to find out whether it can make a difference or not, you're never going to know.