The World Doesn’t Care About You

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We'll have some information for you to check out. With that, let's get into the episode. This is Chris Albert, and I'm here to remind you of one thing. Someday, you're going to die. That's not some morbid statement or scary idea.

It's solid fact. Your time here on this earth is limited. And we need to be reminded of this as much as possible for one simple reason, to live your best life while you can. This is the Warrior Soul podcast. You know, one thing I'm sure that many of you have realized right now is that life can be pretty shitty at times.

So no matter who you are, your life is is gonna contain obstacles. There's gonna be defeats. There's gonna be hard times. And if you're doing anything meaningful, well then, you're probably going to fall on your face over and over and over again. Here's the thing.

There's a lot of people who go through that, and they develop a negative mindset about life. You know, it's it's those people who say things like, I can't catch a break, or, you know, the world just seems like it's against me. Here's the thing, guys, and and I really want you to understand this. The world doesn't care. It really doesn't care about you.

It doesn't care about me. It doesn't care about any of us. But that's because the world doesn't revolve around us. It doesn't make us late for meetings. It doesn't keep people from liking our Instagram photos.

It doesn't hold a gun to our head and tell us that we've gotta go to college or or start a business or lose weight or join the military. The truth is that that we we do all of that. It's it's us. Right? We choose to do those things.

Here's the other thing. The world doesn't give a rat's ass if you decide to quit or if you give up or if you fail. It doesn't care if you're happy or if you're sad or if you have a purpose in life or not. The world's job isn't to give us our purpose. It's not to give us any deeper meaning nor is it anybody else's job.

A lot of people put this stuff onto their families. They put it onto their parents, but it but it's not your your parents' job. It's not your husband or your wife's job. It's not your teachers. It's not your friend's job to give it to you.

It's definitely not the government. Your job is to find that meaning and to bring meaning to this life by finding your own purpose. Now we talked about this last episode. Right? How important meaning was if you're ever gonna do anything hard.

Right? We talked about that a bit. And a lot of you out there are probably wondering, well, how do you find meaning? How do how do you create meaning? And the thing is this, you don't chase it.

You don't try to pursue it. You don't find your purpose one day. It's not gonna be brought down from heaven by an angel and just shown to you. Your purpose is something that you've gotta create. You've gotta look at the world around you.

And rather than complaining about something that's been going wrong or sitting there and and and bitching about it, What you've gotta do is is you've got to work to right that wrong. You've gotta put yourself into a position where you can solve that problem, And that's the type of thing that's gonna give you purpose. Right now, there's there's potential opportunities to find meaning and purpose all around you. But it's that idea that you have in your head that somehow the world is against you or that somehow you can't catch a break that's really keeping you from seeing it. It's made you blind.

And because you're blind, you're not able to see all the opportunity you have all around you. Right? And that's not to say that, hey, you've gotta stop what you're doing and just start a business. Well, guess what? There's something going wrong at work.

Right? If things aren't being run the way they're supposed to be, well, then you've got an opportunity to step up, and you've got an opportunity to find meaning there. The thing is this, we don't have a lot of control over many things in this life. We don't have a lot of control over when we're gonna die. We don't have control over the circumstances that we were born into.

What we do have control over is how we see those circumstances. And we could see them either as as chains or we can see them as opportunities. And we've all got opportunities. There's not one of you that's listening to this podcast right now that doesn't have them. And when you really think about it and you think about the long history of humankind, well, guess what?

You were lucky enough to be born now where you get things like podcasts and where you get things like smartphones and where you're probably not starving and you probably don't need to worry about an armed band of of hooligans trying to to decapitate you or anything like that. Right? You were lucky enough to be born here and now of all the times and places you could have been born. So that at the very least should help you to understand that there is a world of opportunity around you, but it's opportunity that you've gotta create. And in order for you to create it, you've got to start seeing the world in a different way.

And that's all I've got for today, guys. I hope that you got a lot out of this episode, and I hope that these episodes in general are helping you along on your way. If you did get something out of this and if you do enjoy listening to this podcast, please consider heading over to iTunes and writing us a written rating and review. It really helps to spread the word about the show and to get this into the hands of more veterans. For those of you who might be looking for a little more, we've started a group here at Warrior Soul called the Warriors Obituary Society.

And the idea of the group is to empower its members to live epic lives worthy of epic obituaries. It starts with an eight week development program, and through that program, you are gonna be creating your own vision, you're gonna be setting meaningful goals, and then from there, you are going to be working on specific areas of your life. You're gonna develop a customized fitness program that's going to meet your needs. You're gonna work on a finance plan that's gonna help you to save more, pay off your debt, and start investing. And then you're gonna work on your career, your business, your personal relationships, and every other facet of your life that's gonna be meaningful to you.

If you're interested in checking this out, head over to www.warriorobituarysociety.com. That's warriorobituarysociety.com. And if you still have questions after that, feel free to email me at chris@warriorsoulagoge.com. That's a g o g e. With that, guys, I wanna thank you so much for listening, and I'll be back at you next week with some more awesome content.