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Rockefeller’s advice – 5

Rockefeller’s advice – 5

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 Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and upon his many, many, many. What is next? Principle number five. Rockefeller says, excuses are mental illness. Excuses are mental illness. My quote on excuses, I say excuses don't change reality. Think about it like this. Say you had your wallet in your back pocket, in your hip pocket, which is probably the worst place to keep a wallet. But most people do. So you had the wallet in your hip pocket. People also keep the wallet on the dashboard of their car, right up in front and under the windscreen, where it's visible to everybody, and then they have their window down, and somebody obviously, you know, puts his hand in, grabs the wallet and is gone. And you have lost all your, whatever was in the wallet, your ID, your credit card, your money. So say, for example, you had your wallet in your back pocket, and you were, you know, you were going to a railway station or a fair or some crowded place and your wallet, your pocket is picked. Your wallet is gone. So now if you come and explain to me and give me this whole story of how it was so, normal, natural, you did take precautions, but however, you know, these people are so bad and the world is so bad, and therefore your wallet got stolen, and you give me all these excuses and I say, absolutely, I agree with you. You know, it's not your fault, right? It is not your fault. Will your wallet come back in your pocket? It won't, because loss is loss, gain is gain. Loss does not change to gain just because you have an excuse. So excuses don't change reality. Rockefeller puts it another way, more powerful. He says excuses are mental illness. Then he says three excuses that kill success. I'm not healthy enough, I'm not smart enough, I'm not lucky enough. I'm not healthy enough, I'm not smart enough, and I'm not lucky enough. All of these are excuses. Paul Coelho says, if you want to succeed, you must never lie to yourself. And those are excuses. Lying to yourself is excuses. I don't have enough time. I'm so busy. The person who is accomplishing huge things is somebody who also has the same 24 hours. So I ask people sometimes this question. I say, what's your dream? So they tell me, my dream is this. Okay, fantastic. What's your life goal? They have not heard about that. They don't have that life goal. So if it's not a life goal, why don't you have this dream written down as a life goal? Okay, so I write it down. How does it become a goal? It becomes a goal when you put a timeline on it. So I will achieve this dream by this date. It doesn't matter if the date is sketchy. Put a date. Once you do that, then I ask people, how much of screen time do you have? How much of time do you spend on screens? And it's very easy. Your phone has an app which tracks that. So enable that app and it will track the amount of time you will spend on the screen. Average screen time for most people is between 4 to 6 hours. Six hours is a working day. What you are doing for six hours is called a job. And jobs have salaries. So my question is, if you are spending six hours on a screen in social media, what are you getting paid for it? Who's paying your salary for it? If nobody's paying your salary, and of course we know that nobody's paying your salary, then why are you there on that screen for six hours? As simple as that. Now if you are there on the screen for six hours, how on earth are you going to achieve your dream, which I'm assuming is not being on a screen for six hours? So your dream is something else. So if your dream is something else, how is that dream going to be achieved when six hours a day, eight hours a day, your face is in your phone,
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