Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

You can't control every problem—but you can control how you respond

28 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, Larry Weidel urges listeners to shift from rumination and blame toward a proactive, solution‑focused mindset. He argues that while we cannot control every external problem, we can choose how we respond—by rolling up our sleeves, maintaining a positive outlook, and asking, “Will I let the problem happen to me, or will I happen to the problem?” This perspective unlocks what he calls our “higher agencies,” a uniquely human capacity for agency and purposeful action that AI cannot automate. He illustrates the approach with everyday workplace challenges—customer complaints, lost clients, team turnover—showing how reframing these issues as opportunities for action leads to personal growth and effective problem solving.

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What would you like them to take away from your story that would be helpful to them personally? I've always felt that you can always sit there and ruminate and come up with a million ways why something might not work. You can sit there and complain about the millions of problems in the world, and you can lament it's because of this person or that org or that political party or whatever it is. But the great thing about this country that in some of these special places that exist around the world is in a few of these places, you can actually do something about it, which is you can roll up your sleeves and you can get to work. And I just, I love the mindset. You can have a positive outlook in the world, which is, hey, that problem exists. Now, am I going to let the problem happen to me or am I going to happen to the problem? And so that's something that I think I always internalize. Anytime I find myself getting down on an issue, some other customer complains, or we've got, we lost a customer or a team member's leaving and stuff like that. I always try to put that into perspective, which is great. Now what? How do we go about solving it? Once you shift your mindset towards solving it and resolving it instead of just steeping in it, then that's where you unlock your higher agencies. As a human, and that's the type of thing that AI can't automate, actually.