Rob Dial argues that excuses are worthless and everything in your life is your fault, stemming from your past thoughts and decisions. He dismisses common objections like trauma or having kids by pointing to Lauryn Hill, Clint Eastwood, and Mick Jagger, who achieved greatness anyway. He says take 100% responsibility and choose results over excuses.
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Excuses are like buttholes. Everybody's got one, and they all stink. And the truth of the matter is, nobody even gives a damn about your excuses because they're all too caught up in their own lives to even pay attention to yours. If your life is great, it is your fault. If your life sucks, it is your fault. Everything in your life is your fault. Oh, crap. I'm gonna piss some people off because I'm making people responsible for their own actions. But sometimes we all need a little of tough love. We need someone to wake us up. So when are you going to do it? When are you finally going to get rid of excuses and take control of your life? Because when you actually take responsibility for everything in your life, you can't have excuses for anything. So what do you need to do? You need to stop blaming your past or your parents or your present or your future or. Or your government or your president or your spouse. You can no longer blame anybody. You are where you are right now because of your past thoughts, decisions, and actions, which means it is your fault because you're in control of all of those. But, Rob, you don't know about my past and all of the terrible things that I've been through. Hmm. How hard it is to let go of things that really, really hold us back. Yeah. That's the cards that you were dealt. Now what? I guarantee that if we were to search long and hard, we would eventually find someone who had a tougher life than you did, but they still made their life great. But, Rob, I've got children. I don't have time to do all of the things that I wish I could do. This one drives me crazy. Really? You're going to blame your children for your lack of success or happiness or fulfillment? That's a low blow. And I mean a low blow. It's not your children's fault that they were born. They're here. They're in your life now. What? Oh, and also, Lauryn Hill has six kids. Clint Eastwood has seven kids. Mick Jagger has eight kids. Marie Osmond has eight kids. Eddie Murphy has nine kids. Charlie Chapman had 11. Mia Farrow had 14. And Marlon Brando. Marlon Brando. Brando had 15 freaking children. So clearly, it's possible to bring children into the world and still bring greatness out of yourself. So now what? Now what do we do? We need to divorce our excuses and take 100% blame for everything that has ever happened to us in the past and everything that is currently in our present moment. Because we have created our lives of up until this point because you can either have excuses or you can have results, but you cannot have both. But the best thing is you get to decide which one you have. What's up everybody? Thank you so much for watching this video. Please go ahead and share it if you like it. And if you're interested in joining a free community of thousands of people who have decided to divorce their excuses and make their life great, you can either click the link that's in the comments down below, or you can go to coachwithrob.com and you can actually join the free community there. Either way, make your life great because you're the one that's in control.
