The document discusses building one's life through self-responsibility rather than waiting for others. It uses analogies of stacking golf balls and building card houses as examples of things that require steady hands and solid foundations to last. Similarly, one needs to choose life's building blocks wisely and not expect others to construct their life for them. Taking responsibility for one's own life through thoughtful responses is the key ingredient to building something substantial.

1. Who Are You Waiting For?

2. When I was a kid my friends and I saw
this cool picture in a magazine.

3. It was of this woman who'd stacked up
three golf balls on top of each other.

4. Now, the article was about something
completely different, and the stacked
up golf balls were only there to make it
look interesting.

5. But for the next several days, that's all
my friends and I did.

6. Try and see how many golf balls we
could stack up.

7. Most I ever got was three.

8. My friend did four.

9. You need a very steady hand and as
surface that won't move.

10. I was also big into building card
houses.

11. Seeing how many stories we could get
them.

12. Things like this are hard to build, and
they collapse pretty easily.

13. Clearly, if you want to build something
that will last, you need to make sure
you've got a lot of things in place.

14. Solid ground. Sturdy construction
equipment.

15. A legitimate reason for doing it, since
it's going to take a while.

16. The most important thing, of course, is
your life.

17. Yet most people spend zero time
considering how to build it.

18. Imagine if you had a plot of land, and a
pile of lumber.

19. And you sat there waiting for
somebody to come along and tell you
what to do.

20. Or worse, you sat their waiting for
somebody else to come and build your
house for you!

21. Most people use this as their main
strategy for building their lives,
without even realizing it.

22. This used to work out fine, maybe fifty
years or so ago.

23. You just did what you were told,
maybe figured out what you were
good at, and showed up to work every
day.

24. That was enough.

25. Not any more.

26. Now every single day can be seen as a
balancing act.

27. Unless you take your time to choose
the building blocks wisely, who knows
when it will come tumbling down.

28. Luckily, it's not as difficult as it seems.

29. But there is ONE crucial ingredient that
most people don't even want to talk
about.

30. And THAT is self-responsibility. Sure,
it's not YOUR fault the world is messed
up and everything is rigged.

31. But it is.

32. How YOU respond, though, is up to
you. And ONLY you.

33. Since every single person has the same
problem, namely, how to get their
needs met in a world that is
increasingly chaotic and rigged, few
people are going to have spare time to
lend you a hand.

34. So if you wait for somebody to come
knocking on your door, take you by the
hand and show you some secret step
by step system that only a "few"
people know about, you'll be waiting a
while.

35. But here's the good news.

36. If you ARE willing to shoulder the
responsibility for your life, you really
can build it as big as you want.

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