Short motivational talk by John Demartini (YouTube) emphasizing that people’s addictive or subordinate behaviors stem from not living by their highest values. He urges focusing daily actions on one’s highest values and mission rather than comparing oneself to others, using athletic focus (Michael Phelps example) to illustrate staying mission-focused and avoiding wasted energy trying to be or change others.
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I always tell people that your addictive behaviors are a compensation for unfulfilled highest values. The moment you live by your highest values, you don't sit there and subordinate to people. Take a command. Wake up your leader. There's a leader in everyone. Yeah, but as long as they compare themselves to others instead of compare their daily actions to what they value most, they're going to end up subordinating and comparing. Phelps said it really well when he got up all those medals. If I compared myself to the guy left and right of me when I was about to dive into the water, I lost my gold. My focus is my mission of going and swimming. I don't notice notice this. Yeah. I've already trained on everything that they could do, how I would respond to it. My mission is now focus on my mission. Let those distractions stop. So we, we go through and we compare ourselves to others instead of compare our daily accidents to our own dreams. And that's what blocks us. Because now we're trying to fix others to be like us if we're looking down on them. We're trying to fix ourselves to be like them if we're looking on them. And anytime you're trying to be somebody you're not or trying to get other people to be somebody they're not, you got futility and all that energy wasted on something that's non productive.