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Today, we're gonna be talking about all of your control issues that you have. Have you ever felt like you're just trying to control everything? You're trying to hold the whole world together with your bare hands. You're always managing or planning and fixing and overthinking everything.
Chances are, if you clicked on this episode, there is a chance, a small, small chance that you might have some control issues. And I want you to understand, I have identified with myself years ago that I had control issues. And this was back in 2018, 2017, when I really identified that I had control issues.
And I had this big awareness and I started working more on myself and working more on myself and I had this awareness that I had control issues because when you look at my entire childhood, if you were to put one word over my childhood with having a father who was an alcoholic and passing away when I was 15 and all of that, that the word over my childhood would be uncertainty.
And the only way to fix uncertainty is to try to control everything. But I had this realization that if I try to control everything, it's going to ruin almost everything in my life. It's going to ruin my relationships. It's going to ruin my business, all of that. And so I started really working on my control issues.
And that made me better at delegation in my business, which I don't think that anywhere near the amount of success we would have in my business if I had not worked on my control issues, because I was really bad at delegating. I was really bad at micromanaging as well.
And I also don't think that I would have the relationship that I have now with my wife if I didn't get better at fixing my control issues and opening myself up to being more vulnerable. And I want you to realize that control issues are behavioral adaptations that you learn in childhood. More than anything else, it's a protection mechanism that protected you in some sort of way.
A survival strategy that started in childhood long before you ever had the words for it or knew what you were doing, you just unconsciously created this mechanism. And it's a coping mechanism. It's not like a character flaw. And I want you to understand that. So if you say, oh, I'm a very controlling person, it's not a character flaw. It's a coping mechanism.
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