In this solo YouTube monologue, the speaker reacts to recent BBC News reports that UK energy price caps could increase by £600‑£800 per year due to soaring wholesale gas costs. While acknowledging the unfairness and the myriad conspiracy‑type explanations (Russia, Brexit, climate policy), he argues that complaining about such macro‑level factors is unproductive because they are beyond individual control. He cites a viral TikTok interview with Olly Ollerton, who recommends writing down problems and crossing off everything you cannot control, and he references his own book Start Now, Perfect Later where he outlines the BCDJ (Blame, Complain, Defend, Justify) mindset as a time‑drain. The core message is to redirect the emotional energy of anger into controllable actions: increase personal income through overtime, value‑adding at work, or entrepreneurship; create products or services that help others; and use the situation as motivation rather than a source of resentment. He also mentions Tony Robbins’ divorce as an example of turning personal hardship into financial gain. The speaker ends with a call to share the video, encouraging viewers to focus on what they can control, avoid rumination on uncontrollable factors, and channel frustration into productive, wealth‑building activity.
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So breaking news here, energy prices could soar by hundreds of pounds. You've not been under a rock, do you know that gas prices are going wild? Some people are, um, conspiracy theorizing about what's going on in Russia, or that it's just a supply chain, um, supply issue. But, um, there's a lot of fear now in the media that coming into the winter, gas prices could soar by hundreds of pounds. In fact, on the BBC News website, um, there has been— from The Energy Shop says if things don't settle down soon, increases of £600, £700, or £800 cannot be ruled out. Wholesale prices apparently gone up 400%. Um, energy price caps look look like they're going to have to be pushed up perhaps by over £400 from the spring. Now, what I'm about to say probably isn't very popular, but I think it's very important, so please mark my words. This doesn't seem fair. This could be a result of the pandemic, um, this could be other supply chain factors or other more nefarious, um, conspiracy theories as to why gas prices, energy prices are soaring. And it doesn't seem fair. But here's the important part: you can't do anything about it. So if you bitch, you moan, you complain, you rant, you, um, you know, try and get some kind of, um, clan together— on the BBC News website they're asking you to get in touch and share your experiences on how your prices might rise, or if your supplier has gone bust. And you can try and get thousands of signatures to complain about this, what difference is it going to make? So I would say you're far better off trying to make 2, 5 grand, 10 grand a year more in revenue doing overtime, or offering more value to your boss, or starting or scaling a business or another product, and actually just dwarfing the impact in the cost by controlling what you can control. I've had a video go viral on TikTok. Um, it's Olly Ollyton, and I interviewed him and I asked him what's his best mental hack for, um, you know, being happy and fulfilled and successful. And he said Write down all your problems and then cross off everything that you cannot control and let it go. You can't control energy prices, and if it pisses you off and if it feels unfair, maybe you're right, maybe it isn't fair, maybe it didn't go up that much recently, who knows? But you cannot control it. So if you want well-being, wealth, health, happiness, and success All the things you cannot control, let it go. Someone's putting this all down to the climate crisis lies, or it could be about Brexit. It could, it could be Russia, Brexit, climate. It could be all of this, uh, the fuel issues. Yes, these are real, and you could be right or you could be wrong, but you can't control it. So my recommendation, and like I said, I'm not going to get some criticism for this But I believe you should let it go. And if your bills rise by hundreds, go and make thousands. If it pisses you off, create a meaningful product and service and go and help others, because you can control that. You can't control anything else. So if you agree, please hit the share button. The reason I've mentioned this, it's probably not my usual content, is because there's going to be a lot of pissed off, upset people on social media today. This has just come out on BBC News. And obviously a lot of people tune into BBC News and it affects them. And it does seem unfair. And when I first read it, I did think that's not fair and it did start to piss me off a little bit. Then I thought, you know what, I have to take that energy of being pissed off and I have to put it into something meaningful and useful, which is hopefully this video. So please hit the share button if you agree that we should not be concerned about what we can't control, be concerned about what we can control, and then use our energy of feeling of unfairness and wrongness, if that's a word, and being pissed off and turn it into something productive and useful and meaningful. Otherwise it just ruins your day. And there's nothing— because there's nothing worse than being so pissed off and angry and upset by something you can't control, because there's nowhere to put that energy. You can't do anything with it and about it, so it, it burns inside of you. It creates a dis-ease which turns into disease if you bottle it in enough. So like Ollie Ollerton said— nearly 3 million views this video has had on TikTok— like he said, what you do is you write down the things that are pissing you off and you tick off all the things you can't control and just move it along. Uh, move along please, nothing to see here. And next, and next. And because do you know what, you know, when you scroll on social media, would you agree that probably 5 or 10 or 50 times a day you see something that pisses you off? Unfollow, hide. Unfollow, hide. Can't control, can't do anything about that. Unfollow, hide. Yes, it's wrong, can't do anything about it. What can I do to change the world, to change my life, to feel empowered and positive and to be useful and valuable? What you can do is go and create more revenue, create more opportunity, help more people, and turn that energy into something useful. It doesn't help you to blame, to complain, even though it is freaking wrong in many ways. It doesn't help you to Justify, defend. Like the— I wrote in my book, Start Now, Perfect Later, BCDJ: blame, complain, defend, justify. These are all massive time drains and wasters, and they just upset you. So it's going to be some upset people today. Energy bills could rise by hundreds. Price caps going up could be £600, £700, £800 a year apparently rising bills. It's not fucking right or fair. But there's things in the world that we cannot change, and this is what happens with supply and demand, and this is what happens with some conspiracy theories, is the consumers end up getting hurt. What can you do about it? Make more money, make more of a difference, help more people, help yourself, be productive, be entrepreneurial, be innovative, be creative, be resourceful, and have it as a motivator to you to go and make more money. I saw a headline from Tony Robbins saying that his divorce made him more money. Not because it made him more money. He probably lost half his net worth, but he used it as motivation to turn that into something productive, positive, powerful, and meaningful. That's what you should do. Sorry if it upsets some people. Sorry if it's not what you expected. Maybe you expected me to bitch and moan and complain and be really upset for Russia and the government and the lockdown and the climate and the Brexit. Can't fucking control any of that. Don't give a shit. Give a shit about you. Give a shit about people. Give a shit about your customers, your clients, your friends, your followers, your fans. Help them. Help yourself. Hit the share button. Help me. Love you all. And remember this: if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. Let me know what you think in the comments. Let's see how many critics I get on this one.
