We live in a Bailout World.

From large corporations to Joe Sixpack, it seems more and more people are saying “What about me?”

They forget the fact that they have made their own bed by the bad decisions they made. They discount the notion that you clean up after your own mess. Some (not all) people have fallen off the accountability train and are waiting at the station for the next one to pick them up.

On the new train will be a brand new mindset. It will be filled with people who have been feeding off a full diet of excuses and are walking around with their hand stretched way out.

Let me stop for a moment. For anyone who is screaming right now “Sam, you don’t know my story!” – let me stop you right there. Make no mistake, there are lots of people who need a helping hand that are not living off our newly found Bailout mindset. I’m all for government assistance if people are willing to help themselves. If you feel like someone owes you something just because you made a stupid mistake – I offer you this piece of advice, filled with wisdom.

Stupid Should Hurt

If you’ve made a stupid mistake, it should hurt. No different than a child who gets too close to the fire and feels the heat. If you walked out in front of a moving vehicle, that would be categorized as stupid. It should hurt.

Four years ago I made one helluva stupid mistake and trust me when I tell you – it hurt. I bought a franchise I had no business buying and settled, rather than going full speed after my dream.

I’ll never make that mistake again

It hurt badly. It hurt the people around me as well.

If you made a bad investment and lost – join the club.

Here’s the solution that will pay you dividends for many years to come.

Find out why you did what you did? Was it for money? Was it because you didn’t have a clear vision? Was it due to the influence of others? Don’t confuse the stupidity of the act with your own intelligence. YOU are very intelligent. YOU have the ability to be great. YOU must bail yourself out.

It goes far beyond the obvious reason of why you have to bail yourself out versus relying on others. The most obvious reason is why would you want to be a drain on the time and money others have worked hard to achieve?

The less obvious and more important reason is this:

If you figure out what you did wrong then realize your ultimate success, you can report back to others that “The bridge is out ahead, do not proceed!” That’s the ‘paying it forward’ approach we teach inside the Every Day Is Saturday community. You want to get to Saturday because of the huge payoff for you and your family. The other reason is for what you can teach thousands of others about going after their very own Saturday.

If you made a stupid mistake, got bailed out and skipped down the road on your merry way – you would never learn. How can you get better if you don’t learn. How can you teach on a topic you know nothing about.

Stay on the Accountability Train and avoid the Excuse Train. The Excuse Train is on the track to nowhere. It’s full of average people looking for average results, blaming everyone else for their problems. The Accountability Train makes frequent stops to pick up more and more champions on the way to Saturday. It never goes off the track and is always on time when it stops at its final place – Saturday.