#285 Snippets of wisdom: Stand on the right foundation in life.

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Agi Keramidas  0:05  
Welcome to Personal Development mastery podcast episode 285. And this is another snippets of wisdom episode where I select my favourite, most insightful moments from previous episodes of the podcast. Today's snippet of wisdom comes from my conversation with Richard Flint, who is a keynote speaker, trainer and mentor. The snippet I chose for you today is about standing on the right foundation in life. I hope you find this as insightful as I have, here it is.

Richard Flint  0:46  
In life, there are only two foundations that we can stand on. And the answers to every question in life is created by which foundation we stand on. One is the foundation of belief in yourself, trusting yourself and having the faith to live forward. And that's the inside Foundation. The other foundation is I live my life with doubt. Worry, and uncertainty. And if I live on that foundation, what I do, I reach outside to other people to tell me what my life is what I should be doing. And I give everybody else permission to design my life. And I hope your I hope your listeners can understand this. For you and I to implement anything in our life. We have to give ourselves permission to do it doesn't just happen. Every choice you make in your life, you give yourself permission to make that choice. And everyday those choices that I make are based upon which of these foundations Am I standing on? Doubt. You can't have doubt in belief. Worry, you can't have worry and trust. Uncertainty, you can't have uncertainty and faith. And when people come to me and they're struggling, one of the first things I want to know that I want to discover is which of these foundations are you building your life on right now? And it's interesting, Augie when you tear it apart psychologically. I mean, you think about this, I would imagine you and probably 99% of those that listen to your podcast here. I would imagine they go through times when they doubt. And the interesting thing about doubt is you can't doubt without worrying. And doubt is the parent. Worry and uncertainty are the kids. And if I'm uncertain what happens, I'm frozen in light. And what do I do? How do I handle doubt? And where does doubt come from? That comes from my rear view mirror. It comes from me looking at all of the wrongs, all of the frustrations, all the disappointments that I've had in yesterday. And when I'm looking down at rearview mirror, I don't see the purpose of yesterday. Yesterday is a reference library not a room to live in. Now, we all have a yesterday. So when I'm in belief, I've also taken stuff from yesterday. But what have I done, I've taken my success. I've taken my celebrations, I've taken my growth, my discovery, my experiences that keep making me better, smarter and stronger. And I build my life off of that. I wish people could understand that yesterday is just a series of file cabinets, one file cabinets, everything in that drawer is about all of my my doubts, my worries and my uncertainties. This other file cabinet is about all of my success the things that I feel good about the me that I know I am that I celebrate every day. And I define yesterday by which file cabinet I open. And I bring that to today. And I use that to design my day, every day of your life is a design. And that design is is then implemented through the choices that you make. And every choice you make. You have to give yourself permission To make that and people tell me Well, I didn't mean to do that that's a lie. If you hadn't meant to do it, you wouldn't have done it. There are no excuses. My book I'm working on right now, I hope by the end of the year is entitled, so what's your excuse? We live in a world today where excuses have become acceptable. And when excuses become acceptable, there is no accountability. You know, I give myself permission to have the life that I have. Let me say one more thing real quick. It's the teaching that I have that gets me in trouble the most. And that is this, you are exactly in your life where you want to be people that well, that's not true. Well, if you didn't want to be there, you wouldn't be parent. There's nothing to blame. There's no justification, there's no excuse. Listen, when I was 16, I could have gone over laid down in the corner, got up in the foetal position and never done anything with my life and blame my mother the rest of my days on this earth are I could stand up and I could look at the life that I want to have. And every day choose to implement the behaviours that take me living forward, rather than trapped in yesterday.

Agi Keramidas  6:36  
Thank you for listening. You can find the full conversation in Episode 226. The link is in the show notes. If you got value from today's episode, please leave me an apple podcasts or Spotify review and share how personal development mastery has made the difference to you today.

Agi Keramidas  6:58  
Until next time, stand out don't fit in!

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