"Alex Mandossian Answers the In Search Of Heroes Program Questions 'Do you take a positive view of setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes?'" by Ralph Zuranski
I think a positive view is important but a positive view is judgment. I think a realistic view or an accountable view is more like the language I would use.
Accountability is acceptance. In any twelve step program recovering from any disease always starts with acceptance. A power greater than yourself is going to make these things happen in your life. It doesn’t have to be recovering from any “ism,” whether its “workaholism” or “over-eatingism” or “alcoholism” or “drug addiction” or any kind of “ism” that is out there.
What’s important is in looking at how to have an outlook on what’s happening in your life towards the road to success which I am assuming everyone wants. It’s looking at it from an accountable view.
The only beef I have with people who teach self-improvement and personal development is many times their students are almost urged to be unrealistic. They’re shooting for the moon when they should really be shooting for the clouds. Okay! What ends up happening is that they are overcharged on their credit cards because they have these dilutions of grandeur. They keep getting deeper and deeper in “doo doo!” It’s not necessary.
What’s necessary is to know, “hey, this is my budget.” Instead of saying, “I cant afford it!”
You can say, “Its not in my budget!” You can move on and be very realistic.
I believe in spending 100% of what I make! I just spend in my investment account. I spend in my play account. I spend into my expense account and so on and so fourth.
I manipulated in my mind so that it seems good and it feels good and I just reword things so accountability is what I look at and knowing where I’m at. That is the single most important thing.
If you are on a plane and you crash in the middle of the Sahara desert and you’re the only survivor, once you get the food and the water to survive, the single most important thing you need to know is if your going to make it to Cairo.
Can you make it and live on the two weeks worth of water and food that you have as the only survivor? You have to know where you are at. You have to know where you are at because if you’re running east looking for a sunset, you got a big problem.
“Alex Mandossian Answers the In Search Of Heroes Program Questions ‘What is your perspective on goodness, ethics and moral behavior?’” by Ralph Zuranski
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