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Do things happen to you or for you?
Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Today, coming to you live from Tracy, California outside. It’s quite windy. I apologize if you’re not able to hear me well, but I’m out on the back deck of my father’s house out here in Tracy, California.
Let me see if I can show you a little bit of the view here or looking out. Looking out. Let’s see. Can you see, Oh well of course it would help if my finger were not over the lens. This is a Tracy, California at night.
I see Joseph Costamagna is watching. Hey Joe hanging out here in Tracy. See if I can wipe off the lens. This is all live folks. This is all live. So that kind of gives you a perspective.
So do things happen to you or for you?
And this is from a quote that my friend Sean McNeil posted on Facebook than I really enjoy.
Hey, how’s it going?
Sean McNeil was saying that. Everything either happens to you or for you, says it all depends on your perspective and really everything always depends on your perspective.
If you think about it, and that’s a perfect example and it’s an attitude adjustment and something to keep an eye on yourself is whether you think things happen to you or for you. You say, well, yeah, but that can’t be the only options.
But really it is in a sense, it is because if things happen to you, you’re a victim and things just happen to you constantly and things are just always happening on top of you that the fates are out to get you.
But if things are happening for you, you could say, well that’s pretty self-centered.
What do you mean things happen for you?
But I think it pays to be a little bit self-centered.
You have to see the world from yourself out, because that’s who you are. You have to see how things are coming together for you. And not that everything happens just for you, but from your perspective, you have to see it as they’re happening for you.
You have to have a little bit of that concept of destiny that I like to talk about and you can watch some of my other videos regarding destiny. I think if you don’t, you’re always going to feel like things are happening to you.
You’re still secretly believe in destiny, but you believe that it’s all out to get you. You believe you’re faded to something bad. That’s just no way to live. You gotta be able to see the good things.
You’ve gotta be able to see the shiny things and be able to see the good things that are happening for you because they’re everywhere. Whether you’re taking advantage of them or not, you’ve got opportunity everywhere. You’ve got the ability to do so many things and you could see that other people may not have those same things.
When I talk about white privilege and stuff like this, I think we’re all privileged in our own way. And even the most worst case scenario, worst case situations that occur can be a privilege, can be useful, we could use to our advantage.
Viktor Frankl, the guy that wrote ahh……what’s the name of his famous book?
A Man’s Search for Meaning.
This was a guy that survived the concentration camps and he started taking perspective. It’s great book. You gotta read it, A Man’s Search for Meaning.
Or go listen to the audio. It’s free on YouTube. You go listen to it. The whole idea is that, he was in a concentration camp. He started looking at, if I’m able to survive this, how can I take this and make it useful?
How do I disconnect from the circumstances and look at this objectively and be able to use what I’m going through here to be able to help people. And he did. He was healthier than everybody else. When he got up and left and he went out and took that perspective and spread across the world and just by writing that one book has been able to help millions and millions of people even after he’s died.
So did things happened to him?
Did the Holocaust happen to him or did it happen for him?
It’s all perspective folks.
You got to always keep in mind that your perspective will help determine your destiny. Just a quick thought for tonight. Hope you have a great night.
We’re all going to be back here tomorrow.
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