Why Your Excuses Don't Really Matter

Here's a segment from the latest interview with former Bank Robber turned Life Coach - Tommy Bastian on the topic of "Perspective." This is a really cool concept I originally heard from Gary Vaynerchuk. It's kind of crazy how there's genocide going on in the world, women being raped, doped up and sold into sex slavery - often also used as drug mules, people being murdered, people melting to death from Ebola, people stricken with horrible diseases like AIDS. And here we sit Tweeting about how awful our life is because we got too much foam in our Starbucks this morning. Perspective keeps you in a state of optimism and action I think. And to gain the ability to have an improved perspective comes from practicing #empathy. Practicing thinking how the other person is thinking and trying your best to feel what they are feeling.