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Focus On What You Can Control

Name: Focus On What You Can Control
Uploaded: 2025-06-05T21:00:21+00:00
Duration: 27 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this motivational excerpt, the speaker urges listeners to shift their focus from outcomes they cannot control—such as how well others perform—to the…

5 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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In this motivational excerpt, the speaker urges listeners to shift their focus from outcomes they cannot control—such as how well others perform—to the effort and improvement they can directly influence. Using the metaphor of a "best week ever" in sales, the speaker argues that achieving one's personal best is a controllable metric that reflects true effort, regardless of whether it also happens to be the best or worst week among peers. The core message is that external performance comparisons say nothing about an individual; only the knowledge that one gave their maximum effort matters. By falling in love with continual improvement, a person becomes hard to beat.

If you can fall in love with getting better, you become very hard to beat. So let's say hypothetically everybody here closes 100% this week. You can't control that. Zero control. But if you hit your best week ever, you can control that. Now, if your best week ever happens to be the best week of everybody, awesome. If it's the worst week, awesome. If everybody here closes perfect, like, what does that say about you? It says nothing about you. Like, it says absolutely nothing about you. But you'll know if you tried as hard as you could.