219: Don't Use This As A Reason To Quit

Enjoy Life Podcast w/ Nick Maizy: Live Your Best Life

This Episode’s Main Points:

• There are things you can't change.
  • The Past
  • Other People
• There are things you can change.
  • Your Actions
  • Your Attitude
• Fully taking ownership of the things you can change will make all the different in the world.
• Big announcement next week.
  • Helping you reach your full potential.

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Show Notes:

Let me share with you how growing up I learned to see the statement “it is what is it” in a way that differs completely from many other people and how it serves me greatly in my everyday life.

Before we dive in, I can't help but share about last week. I was at an amazing Maxwell Leadership conference. I'm now a certified Maxwell Leadership team member.

What’s that mean to me?Training. Material.

What’s that mean to you?More value. Better material. Improved tools & resources.

I want to help you reach your full potential so you can live your best life. Wouldn’t that be great? Do you want that for yourself?

That’s what I want for you. That’s why the Enjoy Life Podcast is here. Now, I have top-tier resources to share with you to help you make your best life a reality. To help you live the life you want. And next week, I’ll start sharing more of them with you. We’ll start with the 3 components for reaching your full potential.

"It is what it is."

To some people, it means certain things won’t change. So why even try? They use that statement as a reason to give up. It is defeating. They become defeated. They defeat themselves by the viewpoint they take and it’s encouraged by the words they use.

Not me. And not you either, right? Or at least it doesn’t have to be you.

Here is how I use the phrase “it is what it is.”

I got a flat tire and am running late. “It is what it is.” I can’t change the fact that the flat tire happened.

I can, however, change or choose a few other things that make a HUGE difference.

First, I can change the tire. I can choose my attitude. I can choose how I prepare for another flat tire happening in the future. I can choose if I will let that flat tire ruin my day or week. I can choose if I allow that flat tire to take control of my life or if that flat tire “is what it is” and that's all that it is.

That flat tire is only a small, tiny insignificant bump along the way in my day, week, and life.

I use “it is what it is” to acknowledge that I can’t change certain things. I didn’t choose for certain things to happen.

BUT….(most important part)

I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

You cannot change what you cannot change. And that’s okay.

You can’t change other people. You Can’t change the past.

No one can. And that’s life.

Just don’t let those things change you. Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing the great, amazing things you can do.

And sometimes the most amazing thing you can do is choose to have the best attitude you can and do the next small right thing that is best for your life and future.

I know it can be difficult. Especially in the moment when things are frustrating and not going your way.

You can do it, though. Your life and future are worth you rising to the challenge.

And I am here to help. I have some more tools and resources to share with you. Starting next week. I’m excited about these upcoming announcements. I just want to make sure everything is set up and working before I release it..

Talk soon, Nick