WEBVTT - Things You Can Control

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<v Speaker 1>I See's Daily Game. It's a production of iHeartRadio. What's

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<v Speaker 1>up to Size Team? You're listening to The Daily Game

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<v Speaker 1>the compilation of motivational quotes I've collected over the years

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<v Speaker 1>that I've found inspiring and helped me through the game

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<v Speaker 1>of life. Today's quote comes from Marcus Aurelius, one of

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<v Speaker 1>the most highly respected Roman emperors and philosophers. He ruled

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<v Speaker 1>from one hundred and sixty one to one hundred and eighty,

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<v Speaker 1>but his words still rang true today. You have power

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<v Speaker 1>over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you

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<v Speaker 1>will find strength. This is dope because really is telling

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<v Speaker 1>you the only thing you truly have power over is

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<v Speaker 1>what goes on in your brain. Everything around you, you

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<v Speaker 1>truly don't have control over it. And it kind of

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<v Speaker 1>connects to one of my things is, which is focus

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<v Speaker 1>on things you can't control. A lot of people spend

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of time thinking about things they have no

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<v Speaker 1>control over, and they labor and they go through all

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<v Speaker 1>types of anxiety over things they have absolutely no control over.

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<v Speaker 1>You can only focus on the things you can't control.

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<v Speaker 1>So say you live in a hurricane area, Well, you

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<v Speaker 1>can worry and worry and worry about the hurricane, but

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<v Speaker 1>you cannot control the hurricane. What you can control is

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<v Speaker 1>how well you prepare for the hurricane. So you can

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<v Speaker 1>control things in your mind. That's where you have control.

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<v Speaker 1>Now you say, okay, I can't control these outside things,

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<v Speaker 1>but what in my mind can I do? And what

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<v Speaker 1>can I control? So let me prepare for this. So

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<v Speaker 1>I guess basically, what Marcus is really getting down to

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<v Speaker 1>is that you have to relinquish a lot of power

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<v Speaker 1>and stop sweating a lot of things that we don't

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<v Speaker 1>control in life. A life is going to move around us,

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<v Speaker 1>and how we absorb them and how we take them

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<v Speaker 1>in and how we understand them, that's all we can do.

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<v Speaker 1>That's all you have is control over yourself. Even with

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<v Speaker 1>someone else in your life, you do not have control

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<v Speaker 1>over them. You might think you do, but you don't.

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<v Speaker 1>They have free will. You can only control yourself. So

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<v Speaker 1>that's deep. And once you give up the power and say,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, no matter how much I wish or want,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't will that thing to happen. I can only

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<v Speaker 1>control myself, you probably will remove a lot of stress

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<v Speaker 1>from your life. But this is hard for some people

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<v Speaker 1>to excel. This has been another ice cold fact from

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<v Speaker 1>me iced tea, listening again tomorrow when I drop some

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<v Speaker 1>wisdom on your ass Till then, stay safe, stay smart,

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<v Speaker 1>and stay knowing that you and you alone are in

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<v Speaker 1>the driver's seat of your life. On the journey I

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