Brick By Brick Hot Shot: The Brutal Truth About Winners' Mindsets vs. Losers' Excuses

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Life is too short to waste time with regret, shame, and guilt that keep us from taking action. The difference between a winner's and loser's mentality lies in taking responsibility versus making excuses for why things can't be done.

• Winners understand that goals sometimes require intense dedication and hard work
• Living in the past and making excuses like being too old or having no time keeps us stuck
• Instead of using tragedy as an excuse, use it as inspiration to carry on someone's legacy
• When someone you love passes, fulfill their dreams and aspirations for them
• Everyone deserves a second chance to transform their life
• The time to act is always now, not someday in the future

Get off the couch and do something with your life today. Stop waiting for the perfect moment and start building the life you want right now.

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Episode Transcript

Ty Cobb Backer (00:00):
Life is too short, right, life is too short
to sit by on the sidelines withregret, with shame, with guilt,
and the next thing you know, 10years have gone by and you look
back on your life and yourealize that you haven't done
nothing.
The last thing that I wouldwant to do is lie on my deathbed
with all this guilt, shame,regret, remorse, of all these

(00:20):
things that I should have done,that I could have done, but I
didn't.
Meanwhile, everyone's living in.
I wish I knew then.
What I know now.
I fucking do right now is now.
Right then then is now.
You know what I'm saying.
Living in the past and living inyour excuses.
You know.
That's the.
That's the difference between awinner's mentality and a
fucking loser's mentality.

(00:40):
A fucking loser all the timewants to live in those excuses.
They're making up these excusesof why they can't do this.
I'm too old, it's too late,there's not enough time in the
day, I'm too fucking fat.
Fuck that.
Get your ass off the fuckingcouch and fucking do something
with your life.
You know what I mean.
Kick back, relax after youfucking get to work in.
Kick back, relax when you makethat time intentional with your

(01:04):
family.
But for now.
Sometimes it takes six straightmonths to complete that goal,
seven days a week, 365 days, 24hours a day.
You just got to kick it in highgear.
Nobody's going to give this tous.
Some people, it's the excuses,and they use those reasons why
they have a shit life.

(01:24):
They always blame others fortheir situations and their
failures, their failures, yourmom dies.
Use that shit to inspire you.
You have big shoes to fill.
When somebody that you trulylove that's in your life, it is
your responsibility to carry thetorch.
The torch had been passed toyou.
You need to fill the torch.

(01:45):
The torch had been passed toyou.
You need to fill those shoes.
If that person had dreams andaspirations, there's something
that they wanted to accomplish,then you need to go and fulfill
that dream for them.
Use that shit to inspire you.
Stop using it as an excuse tobe a piece of shit.
Right, if your dog dies, go anduse that as an excuse to

(02:05):
fucking go get another dog.
Use that as an excuse.
Go get another dog.
Rescue that dog, give that dog,show that dog a life beyond its
wildest dreams, cause God onlyknows.
God only knows where that dogcame from.
Right, don't?
We all deserve a second chance.
I know I've been given a secondchance.