Speaker 1: I See's Daily Game. It's a production of iHeartRadio. What's
Speaker 1: up to Size Team? You're listening to The Daily Game
Speaker 1: the compilation of motivational quotes I've collected over the years
Speaker 1: that I've found inspiring and helped me through the game
Speaker 1: of life. Today's quote comes from Marcus Aurelius, one of
Speaker 1: the most highly respected Roman emperors and philosophers. He ruled
Speaker 1: from one hundred and sixty one to one hundred and eighty,
Speaker 1: but his words still rang true today. You have power
Speaker 1: over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you
Speaker 1: will find strength. This is dope because really is telling
Speaker 1: you the only thing you truly have power over is
Speaker 1: what goes on in your brain. Everything around you, you
Speaker 1: truly don't have control over it. And it kind of
Speaker 1: connects to one of my things is, which is focus
Speaker 1: on things you can't control. A lot of people spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time thinking about things they have no
Speaker 1: control over, and they labor and they go through all
Speaker 1: types of anxiety over things they have absolutely no control over.
Speaker 1: You can only focus on the things you can't control.
Speaker 1: So say you live in a hurricane area, Well, you
Speaker 1: can worry and worry and worry about the hurricane, but
Speaker 1: you cannot control the hurricane. What you can control is
Speaker 1: how well you prepare for the hurricane. So you can
Speaker 1: control things in your mind. That's where you have control.
Speaker 1: Now you say, okay, I can't control these outside things,
Speaker 1: but what in my mind can I do? And what
Speaker 1: can I control? So let me prepare for this. So
Speaker 1: I guess basically, what Marcus is really getting down to
Speaker 1: is that you have to relinquish a lot of power
Speaker 1: and stop sweating a lot of things that we don't
Speaker 1: control in life. A life is going to move around us,
Speaker 1: and how we absorb them and how we take them
Speaker 1: in and how we understand them, that's all we can do.
Speaker 1: That's all you have is control over yourself. Even with
Speaker 1: someone else in your life, you do not have control
Speaker 1: over them. You might think you do, but you don't.
Speaker 1: They have free will. You can only control yourself. So
Speaker 1: that's deep. And once you give up the power and say,
Speaker 1: you know what, no matter how much I wish or want,
Speaker 1: I can't will that thing to happen. I can only
Speaker 1: control myself, you probably will remove a lot of stress
Speaker 1: from your life. But this is hard for some people
Speaker 1: to excel. This has been another ice cold fact from
Speaker 1: me iced tea, listening again tomorrow when I drop some
Speaker 1: wisdom on your ass Till then, stay safe, stay smart,
Speaker 1: and stay knowing that you and you alone are in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat of your life. On the journey I
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