They Call Me Mista Yu: FLASHBACK --From Survival Mode To Community: Who Is Your Neighbor?

Our team thought it was a great idea to start rewinding previous (but timely) episodes of our show during the times that Mista Yu is away from the microphone. All of these beautiful Blasts from the Past were previously broadcast, but we are sharing them with you at a time when you might need them most. Hope you enjoy the review!

What if your block is the most powerful classroom you’ll ever sit in? We dust off a fan favorite and dig into the people right outside your door—the loyalists who steady the group, the explorers who push edges, the dreamers with bright sketches, the peacekeepers chasing quiet at any cost, the visionaries who see the finish line long before the foundation is poured, and the compromisers who freeze when it’s time to choose. Through raw Brooklyn stories and hard-won lessons, we unpack why “mind your business” starves communities, how normal becomes the ceiling on our lives, and what it takes to turn a private vision into something your neighbors can actually hold.

We get practical about building true neighborhood fabric instead of subdivision silence. You’ll hear how small acts—learning names, sharing resources, checking on elders, coordinating safety and support—compound into resilience. We wrestle with the ache for acceptance that drives us to keep what we should release and reject what could heal us. And we trace the costly habit of searching for outcomes in empty places: status for belonging, hustle for meaning, distraction for connection. The thread through it all is simple: people are the common denominator of our wins and our wounds, and we rise or fall together.

If you’re tired of stepping over problems and ready to step into purpose, this conversation will nudge you from comfort to care. Listen, reflect on which neighbor type you lean toward, and then make one concrete move on your street this week. Subscribe, share this with someone on your block, and leave a review to help more neighbors find their way here.

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Transcript

Archival Drop And Setup

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Hey friends and families, it's Mr. You. Now, I wanna try something fresh and something different, especially during our slow months in this season. So, starting this season, we're gonna release random but timely episodes from our first few seasons, which I gotta tell you are the most popular seasons of our entire podcast brand history. I think when you hit them, you'll know why they're so popular. It's gonna be great for new listeners and great also for long time listeners who've been following us for a while. So stay tuned. Thank you for watching us and for listening. Hope you enjoyed this new experience. We're going into the archives. Here's a blast in the past right now. I think you'll enjoy. Have fun. On this episode of They Call Me Mr. You, we're talking about the people in your neighborhood. You might know them, you might not recognize them. They may be just like you. It may be nothing like you. Different shades, hues, types, and sizes, all with one fatal flaw. And we'll discuss how is it possible that we can so easily accept what we should reject, but we quickly reject what we should receive. This is going to be a messy episode, ladies and gents. Why is that, Mr. You? Because we're talking about people, the human variety. We're serving it up hot today on this episode of The Call Me Mr. You, which stops right now.

People As The Common Denominator

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What's up everybody? Welcome back to the All-Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life. We're your weekly mirror check before you go change the weapon, baby. And you know it. I'm your host, Mr. Youah, welcome back to the All-Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life with your weekly merit check before you go change the world, baby. Wherever you are, however you listen to our podcast today, thank you for making the Call Me Mr. You part of your morning, your day, and your week. If you haven't already, please jump on to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. We love to hear from you, and please give us a five-star rating. That'll let me know you ain't hating on us. Give us a five-star rating today. We appreciate it. You know, we've been talking a lot over the past few episodes about a very important topic, one I think that we can't avoid talking about. And that's people. At the core of everything that we do, everything we try to accomplish, everything that is on the road to success, and even everything on the road to failure has one single but very important common denominator: people, relationships, history, marriage, divorce, business, entrepreneurship, education, entertainment, leisure, everything. People at the core of it all. Well, guess what, folks? We're here. And we're in this together. We're talking about the people in your neighborhood. You probably hear that song in your head right now. I know I do. But let's jump right in. You know, growing up, and I always talk about it, I'm not ashamed. I lived in a very strange neighborhood in New York City. I lived in the borough of Brooklyn. The only true borough, if we're talking about that. But just kidding. But I lived in a very strange neighborhood in New York City. Strange in a lot of ways, but nothing like what I'm experiencing now and what I've seen in the past couple of decades or so. But it's different because this specific neighborhood was unique. I really honestly

Brooklyn Neighborhood That Broke The Mold

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do not believe, and all my folks from Brooklyn, my Brooklyn Knights, I'd love to hear from you guys on our social media platform. Let me know if I'm wrong about this. Share your stories with us. I'd love to hear what your neighborhood in the 70s and 80s was like. I feel like our neighborhood was unique. It literally busted the myth of what a neighborhood in an inner city is supposed to look like. Like we talked about on our last episode, you hear a lot of stuff about New York. You get a lot of images. The news media doesn't help you. They only exacerbate what I'm talking about today. Excuse me. People get the impression that New York City is like this or like that. That the people that live there act a certain way. They're brash and rude and uncompromising and et cetera, et cetera. But our neighborhood was unique. It was different. For a couple of different reasons. But the main reason was that it busted the myth of what I thought a neighborhood was supposed to be like. You know, in my city, neighborhoods like those were never supposed to be. People weren't supposed to be in a place where they cared about their neighbor. They were supposed to be neighborly in that way. They were taught to worry about themselves. I'm not sure who the teacher was, but they should be fired. But they were taught to worry about themselves. I was taught to worry about me and not worry about anybody else. I grew up. I was born and raised, and I grew up in survival mode. We're not supposed to listen to anyone or ask any questions. We're supposed to mind our own business. I'm not sure where that mindset even came from. All my folks from Brooklyn? All my folks from the city? Love to hear from you guys. What do you think? Where did that mindset come from? We're supposed to mind our own business and worry about ourselves and not care about our neighbors. True story, I can walk down the streets of New York City, and a German can be passed out in the middle of the pavement, in the middle of the sidewalk, on a busy New York street, in the height of rush hour or on the way to work. And hundreds of people would go around or step over that man. Not because he's homeless or because he's drunk, but because they didn't want to be involved. There was no inherent danger to anyone there. They just decided to walk around him or step over him to get where they were going. That's what we learned. Again, if you if you know who that teacher is, let's start a petition to get them fired. Because we were taught to worry about ourselves and mind our own business. People make jokes about the tribal mentality that you find in countless countries around the world. But who honestly, who doesn't want that? I'll be honest, my neighborhood had a little bit of that. And I thank the Lord for that. I'm so grateful for it. Because I could have been a different person than I am right now. I consider myself a generous, compassionate person. If you don't agree with that, don't put that on my social media. Keep that one to yourself. Keep it in your pocket. But I believe I'm a generous, compassionate person. That came from that environment that I grew up in. That came from that household that I was born and raised in. If there were 10 houses on the road and one of the ten families were hungry every night, wouldn't you want to see the other nine families bring vegetables from their crops or from their garden and fruit from their garden and meat from their livestock so they can eat? So that family doesn't go hungry again tonight? Wouldn't you find it fulfilling to be one of those families that provided the answer to that need? Wouldn't you want the same thing if you were that that family that was going without? Of course. Do you have a neighborhood? I'm asking that because I don't know if we understand the meaning of that word. Do you have a neighborhood? Or do you just live in a subdivision? Hey guys, it's Mr. You. You know how much Mr. You loves his coffee. I think I found the answer for all you guys that are health conscious but still love coffee. Strong Coffee Company. 15 grams of high quality protein. Check. Sustain energy throughout the day. Check. No jitters and crashes. Check. Stress relievers like Ashwagon for your morning commute. Check and double check. It's also good for your skin. Come on now. A healthy alternative that actually tastes good. I've arranged the highest exclusive discount for my listeners. Use the promo code StrongCoffeeCompany.com forward slash discount. Forward slash TCMMY. That's what they call me, Mr. U. StrongCoffeeCompany.com forward slash discount. Forward slash TCMY. The link is also in the show notes. Check out Strong Coffee. Let me know what you think. You can look at dictionary.com or go old school and actually pull a dictionary out. Look up neighborhood and look up subdivision. Especially the word subdivision. You'll find some interesting stuff there, I promise you. We're not gonna talk about it today, we can talk about it offline if you'd like to, but check it out. Look up neighborhood and subdivision. Those words have very, very, very deep, profound meanings. So do you have a neighborhood? Do you live in a neighborhood? Or do you just live in a subdivision? So, who are the people in your neighborhood? Have you met them? Do you know them?

Mind Your Business Culture Challenged

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Can you rely on them and trust them if you get in the pinch? I know it's hard to believe, and pride won't let you hear what Mr. U is saying right now. I'm gonna talk through that, baby. I know what I speak of. At any given time in your life, in your living, in your subdivision living, you can be that family that's in need. Yeah, I know you got a great job with benefits and a 401k. Yeah, I know. See, here's the thing. You can be that family on that road that needs food, that needs fruit and vegetables, that needs sustenance. You can be that things can change dramatically. Has not the last year and change taught us that people in their jobs for 30, 40 years and they have budget cuts, and guess what? They don't make it to the fake gold watch. They're gone. They're out on the curb with all their pens and highlighters and staplers. It can happen at any time to anyone. If nothing else, get that from the human experience. At the end of the day, we're all the same. And we're subject to the same thing. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. We all get wet. So who are the people in your neighborhood? Are they assets to your neighborhood or are they liabilities to your neighborhood? Do they feed and take away from your neighborhood or do they provide value to your environment? Who are the people in your neighborhood? Who are you to your neighbors? Can I tell you something you may already know already? Can I tell you something? People are complex. People are predictable. People can be found in different personality types. We're gonna describe some of those today to kind of give you an idea of the different kind of character traits and personalities of people in our neighborhood, people we're surrounded by. If nothing else, it may help us understand us better and help us understand how to navigate relationships with people in our neighborhood. Now, here's a quick point I want to make to you because you could be thinking, why is this important? Why do I have to hear this? Well, if you lived in a bubble, then this podcast would mean nothing to you. But because we don't, and what we do affects other people, and you can use the time that we're in and the circumstance that we find ourselves in today and use that as a background for what I'm saying. What we do affects other people. What we think about impacts other people. I was checking out my messages on my phone and I ran into a post about an incident that happened not far from where I live. A gentleman was getting out of his truck and he uses one of the wheelchair lifts. And some young lady, for whatever the reason, well, I know she was on her phone and she was busy and she was distracted, but she ran her car into the wheelchair lift, injuring the man in the wheelchair. What we do affects other people. And they were trying to find the person and bring them to account

What We Do Affects Others

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because their actions not only hurt a person but actually harm the family. And cause there to be drama and great concerns and medical costs and things of that nature. Because there was a financial implication for what the person did. What we do affects other people. We could talk about it and say, oh, I'm in my own little world, but you're not really in a bubble. You may want to be, but you're really not. What you do affects other people. No offense to the smokers that listen to our podcast today. I'm gonna use you as an example because you're one of the best examples I can use. So, love you. If you smoke, even though you're inhaling whatever the toxins are in the cigarettes, it's not a PSA, I'm just saying. If you inhale those toxins, they affect the inside of your body, they cause certain things to take place in your body, certain harmful effects in your body. But what you blow into the air also has an impact on people around you who may not make the choice that you're making right now, but they're affected by the choice you make. So don't be hating on me, baby. I'm just telling you the truth. What you do affects other people. So, what kind of people are in our neighborhood? What kind of people are we to our neighbors? Are you a loyalist? That person is one of those very committed types. Excuse me. They want security. They want security in relationships, they want security in their responsibilities at work. They want to know what they're doing, and they don't want to do anything else but what they're supposed to be doing. They want to understand everything, they want to have it all mapped out, they want to have security in their obligations. This is what I'm supposed to do. This much and not anything more. They want to be dependable

Do You Have A Neighborhood

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because they need to be dependable for their own sanity almost. They're kind of self-reliant. They need to understand everything up front. They need to be at a place where they can depend on other people. They fight for their own self-interest, but they also will fight for yours with the same kind of intensity. As I'm walking through these types, I'm gonna hear some good and some bad. This is the nature of these kind of personality types. So the loyalists they want to understand everything, they want to be in situations that are predictable, so to speak. And security and predictability are basically first cousins. So they want to be secure because they want dependability and predictability. They don't want that husband that doesn't come home at 5 o'clock after work, or that husband that forgets to call and text and say, I'm going over here for a few hours. They want dependability and predictability. Those things are going to be the reasons why they're loyal. Now, and you think about that a little bit because think about that from a spiritual standpoint. If you don't have all of the answers, if you don't have all of the details, if you don't have the confidence in the person that's talking to you, that's trying to offer you an opportunity or walk you through a process, you can't do it because it's not predictable. You don't know what's gonna happen. You have to trust. In order to be loyal, you have to be able to trust first. Just something to think about. Are you an explorer? Are you the adventurous type? Those types of people are also in our communities as well. They're in our neighborhoods, they love to investigate, whether it be through reading or writing or expressing their thoughts. Because they don't really do that. They don't put their feelings out for the public to consume or examine. They're deep thinkers, probably considered introverts introverts, more than likely. They appreciate mentorship and they're very, very adventurous in a lot of ways. Those are the treasure hunters. They want to find out what makes it work. They want to find out how it feels to jump out of the plane. Or go bungee jumping. They kind of have a thrill-seeking gene, if you will. You know, most people around us take the road that's less traveled. We see it more and more in today's times. If it's easy, we prefer it. Less mess and stress, the easier to test, right? Well, Matthew chapter 7, verse 13 to 14 is one of my favorite passages in the Bible, and it and it's also one of the scariest. It talks about two roads with no median in between. There's a broad path and there's a narrow path. Now, everybody generally follows one while the other one is left traveled the least. There really isn't any adventure or sense of exploration in starting a business and inventing a new design when everybody else is doing it. There's nothing exciting about that. If everybody's making a new brand of coffee, there's no excitement in you doing it too. The excitement comes from doing something different, going against the grain, swimming against the flow. This type of person does that. They have a sense of adventure, a sense of excitement, innovation to do something different than everybody else is doing.

Assets Or Liabilities Next Door

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Do you know anybody like that? What about the dreamer? They love to imagine and fantasize about what could be. Like the explorers, they're thinkers. They just don't always follow through with consistent action. They spend a lot of their time in the cerebral, thinking, imagining, envisioning. They're very creative, but they don't always create. So to speak. You know anybody like that? What about the complainers in life? They feel as though life has cheated them, that life owes them something. They had dreams of themselves. They had their whole lives mapped out. From college to married life. They saw their life going in a certain direction. Their plan was foolproof for almost. They're never satisfied with even the good things they have. Kind of like the children of Israel. They were given manna to eat from a heaven. And they left it there to rot.

Personality Types: Loyalist

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Because they didn't appreciate the provision they were given. These complainers, they're never satisfied with the good things they have. In fact, they often don't even notice them at all. But the offenses and the perceived slights, they're always bigger and louder. They just lack appreciation. What's up everybody? It's Mr. You. You know I love hearing from all of our viewers and listeners. You guys have some great questions. I love it. On every episode of the podcast, they call me Mr. You, right at the top of our show notes is a way you can text me directly. It's called fan mail. Send a text to me anytime in or out of our shows with questions, feedback, topic ideas, or some kind of encouragement for the coach. And I'll respond back to you at the very next episode of our show. I'm making you a part of our show. So send a text, show some love, ask a question, fan mail. Thanks for supporting us again. We love you, we appreciate you. Have a great day. Enjoy the music. Coach out. You know, there's a mentality, even in our midst, that reminds me of the children of Israel. We were given manna and meat, and we quickly, quickly grow tired of it. We demand more variety. Give me something else better. Ooh, shiny. Give me something new. We're distracted by the better stuff. For some context there, check out one of our old podcast episodes, the Diary of a Pack Rat. I think you get the uh the symbolism there. We always demand more variety. We're distracted by the shinier things, the brighter things. And we loathe what we have in our hands. In favor of what we can have instead. How

Personality Types: Explorer

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about the peacekeeper? Somebody's raising their hands right now, probably. I'm a peacekeeper. You might not like where we're going, but let's proceed. Now, this doesn't sound as good as one might think. The keep keeping the peace is not a bad thing, but it's the wrong kind of peace. So let's get into it. They want everything to go smoothly without conflict, and they will compromise nearly anything to ensure that peace. They just want everything to be okay again. They want things to be the way they used to be. I've met a lot of peacekeepers since this pandemic started. Many people in this COVID era that just want the normal back. Let me bust a bubble. My pen is sharp. Let me bust this bubble right now. Right now. Normal is not your friend. See, normal keeps you where you are. Normal never takes you to the next level. Normal never stretches you outside of your comfort zone. Normal always keeps you where you are. I don't care where it is. I don't care if it's a kind of plan that you can purchase through an organization. Normal is always the very bottom, the very basic. If you want enhanced features, if you want enhanced levels, if you want a multitude of benefits, you gotta go past the normal, past the basic to get those. Normal is not your friend. Normal is your enemy. So this new normal that the peacekeepers are clamoring for, it's just a new enemy. Matter of fact, it's the old enemy in a new outfit. The new normal is just the old enemy in a new outfit. Because whatever doesn't require faith, it feeds fear. Faith and fear are like oil and water. They can't stay together. So I don't know how you see where you are, but if everything is normal, it's time to question where you are and where you find yourself. How about those visionaries? Do you know any of those guys? They see what others can't see. They're dogged in their determination to get to the finish line, to invent that invention, to build that business, to complete that project. They are able to see it before the foundation is even laid. They can view it five, ten years into the future. They have outstanding vision. They're not trapped in it today, like many of us are. Their heads are in tomorrow. You know, in virtual reality, I always laugh when I see the commercials because I'm like, this is this is so deep. You could be holding up a sword, a box of treasure, or a gold coin, you know, tools you need to get to the next level. But the people that are closest to you right

Personality Types: Dreamer And Complainer

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now, in your hands, they don't see anything. They see nothing in your hands. But you can see a whole new world. I know a lot of business owners that might feel the same way. You know the tools you need to get to the next level. You can see it. You envision it. In your mind, it's in your hands. You have the resource required to take that business to the next level. But the people closer to you, they don't see anything. They don't see what you see. They don't see the whole new world opportunity you see. They don't see five and ten years into the future. They just see the right now. I was talking to a young man about three months ago. I'll keep the story short. About three months ago, he was talking about his life out of the military. He was working in the store as a manager and really wasn't happy. I didn't gold him into anything or make him, you know, share his life the way he did. He was talking about how much he needed some more money and a different job that paid more because he had so many obligations. You know. And today, after months, I hadn't heard from the man. After months, we passed by the store, and I think the store is closing down. It made me think about him because I'm like, the opportunity that we have in our hands, everybody doesn't see it. And they may miss the opportunity to invest or miss the opportunity to take part in the the I guess the expansion is taking place. The opportunity is taking place. Everybody's not gonna see what the visionary sees. They see on a different level. What about the compromises? Nobody wants to raise their hand and say, I'm a compromiser. They know it's gonna be negative right off the top. But the compromises aren't married to any ideas or views. They can be found to be very indifferent. They reserve the right to change their mind, and they reserve the right to do nothing if it's safer to do so. I laugh when people talk about Switzerland because there's a whole story behind Switzerland being neutral that I don't hear much about. I'm not sure I even heard of this school. And geography and social studies was my favorite subjects. I don't recall hearing it, but I did a little research, and the fact that they were indifferent is a little bit inaccurate. They were somewhat neutral

Sponsor Break And Fan Mail

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because they avoided joining other nations in war. It was not a cowardice or anything, but there was a couple of uh backstories there that caused Switzerland to decide what they did. A couple things that were going on. One thing was that they lacked the resources to be able to sustain any kind of battle with uh with Allied forces and stuff, and they had a weak economy as well. So that leads to kind of a lack of resources, same thing. So they lacked resources, they had a weak economy. So joining a nation that, you know, in war wasn't exactly the best idea for them in their minds. Also, a lot of the nations that wanted Switzerland, that helped them fight, actually wanted their land. Because if you look at the map, they're in a very good uh strategic location for war, for battle. So people, there was a lot of nations that actually wanted their land. And to join them could put them in a compromising position where they would either owe nations that they were helping something or be uh in danger of being overtaken and losing their land. So those are two things that's going on right there. The third thing was that Switzerland had a history of fighting on multiple sides of many disputes in the years leading up to them being considered neutral. They fought on multiple sides of wars, so much so that when it was trying to pick a side and they had to, they couldn't do it because they were so compromised. They were on this side and the other side, then this side, the other side, and they bounced back and forth so much, they compromised so much that they weren't able to pick a side when they really, really had to, when it was really important, when it was all on the line, they couldn't do it. Their allegiances was unclear. So what they did instead was they chose to arm themselves, protect their land against military threats, and stay neutral. Armed, but neutral. Like most compromises, the easiest choice, like Switzerland chose, was to do nothing at all. Here's a question, though, and all of that. Have you danced on so many sides of the issue that you are paralyzed when asked to decide? Have you been intermingling so much and compromised so much that now you can't make a decision when it matters? Asking for a friend. Understanding human behavior is critical. The neighborhood I grew up in is one of a few of its kind. I lived in places where the neighborhood was more commonly what you would know or what you hear about in New York. I seen people close their eyes so they couldn't see, close their ears so they couldn't hear the screams, walk away when somebody needed help. Even today, in 2021, there are a lot of neighborhoods that's just like that. I might live in one, I'm not sure. I gotta check with that one. But there are certain people in your neighborhood that you're connected to, that you don't want them to have the control of the button, if you know what I mean. You don't want certain people deciding who's expendable and who's critical to the future because of their last name

Peacekeeper And The Trap Of Normal

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or their financial portfolio. You know those post-apocalyptic movies? They have the same theme. I'm starting to wonder if somebody's trying to tell us something here with this. What if the person who's deciding who is fit to procreate and repopulate the empty earth is unqualified to do so? What if their advice is slanted or biased? They could alter history in a way that's detrimental. You won't admit it, I know that. Because I've asked you, I've asked many of you. How much would you enjoy living in a neighborhood where everybody thinks, talks, and acts just like you? That's like you being cloned and duplicated. I'm talking about you. Made 10, 20 times over. When you walk out and say, Hey you, hey, how you doing? What if you like the same things? What if you hate the same things and the same people? When you go to the market, you buy the same things. It runs out because you bought it 50 times. You gotta stand in the line and try to get the last one because everybody likes what you likes. Everybody thinks the way you think. Wears the same clothes you wear, watches the same shows you watch. So when you all get together, you talk about the same things that you liked about it. What would that neighborhood be like? Have you ever noticed that nobody talks about the step the stepford wives endearingly or as their favorite movie? Notice that? Yeah. I remember a conversation I was having with my goddaughter way back when she was about five or six years old. And she was serious about what she was sharing with me, and I was just having a good time with her. She was so serious I had to throw a range in the works and just inject some humor. So I began to mock her. Everything she said, I repeated it. Everything she said. She couldn't maintain her train of thought. She got distracted. I thought it was fun at the time, but it's like it would be frustrating if I had to hear myself everywhere. Everything I said, everything I did, reproduced. And it's like, I want to be an original, I want to be innovative. I don't want everybody to think like me. I don't want everybody in my neighborhood to feel the way I do about every single topic. I want the variety, I want the contrast. A little conflict is not even bad, depending on the circumstance. But it's so easy for us to judge and condemn people. I find that hard to understand how that could be so. The book of James talks about a mirror that we look into and we forget what we saw. Which I think is condemning of us as human beings. We forget what we look like, but we ensure you what somebody else looks like. No, she didn't wear that dress. But we did the same thing before. We're so quick to judge. We should look deeply and evaluate and consider and embrace change and make adjustments. As we can clearly see, are necessary. I think one of the fatal flaws in the human experience is that we think we know best. We don't know those around us and what they're capable of. You can turn on the news and see a tragedy. Matter of fact, it happened just a couple of days ago. And the people that are in the neighborhood of the person that committed the crime, nobody was even aware. We don't even know the people in our neighborhood. We don't even know who we're in the midst of. And we wonder why certain things happen, why there's certain kind of circumstances that take place in our neighborhood. Why there's an air of criminal behavior or air of death in our neighborhood. We don't even know who's around us. We just live in our bubble. Concerned about our four and no more. Whenever somebody tells me, you know, they're walking in their destiny, but they don't need instructions or mentoring from anybody, they don't need a planning committee, and nobody's walking with them

Visionaries And Seen-Unseen Tools

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on this road to destiny. I know they're being disingenuous. I know they're lying. Because nobody's walking with you. I don't care who you are and where you are, what you do, and what you want to do. If you're on the road to destiny and you're by yourself, you're on the wrong road. You need to turn around. For real. You know, one of the things I learned about humans that I'm really starting to see it. I see it through some scripture that's been revealed to me, and just human behaviors and things that's been going on in ways where I can be a witness and kind of just observe some stuff. Acceptance is a funny thing, isn't it? I mean, on the surface, we accept things that we're supposed to drive out of our life. And that we drive out of our life the things we're supposed to receive. Strange. We need to have it so bad that we'll do anything for it, we'll say anything, we'll sleep with anybody, we'll snort it, we'll drink it, inject it into our veins, anything to feel it, to possess it. I'm talking to you from somebody who has lived with that endless, continual, driving desire to be accepted. It nearly wrecked my life. It put my marriage in some jeopardy. Acceptance is a funny thing, isn't it? On the other end of the spectrum, you got those who tell themselves they don't need it anymore. They've been hurt so bad that they believe they can do life alone. But no one ever talks about where that road ends. Where both of these roads can end. Sometimes, I want to tell you, stop wasting time. We don't have time to waste. We are people. We're in a neighborhood, we're in the human experience, but we have an obligation and responsibility to make the most of what we have in our hands. What we've been blessed and fortunate to have. People may not see it. They may see you randomly moving your hands around, but you have something of value. They can't see the world you're looking into. They can't see it with the eye because they can't have your eyes. They can't have your vision. They can only see it when it's manifested into something that they can tangibly see. But it won't happen if you don't continue to go forth and make that what you see come to pass. Make that what you see become tangible. Vision is only good if it turns into something that people around you can see. The Lord told Noah to make an ark. That was an idea and a concept in his head. I'm sure he thought, an ark? What? But he took wood and hammers and began to build it. Then people can see it. For most of them was too late, but they saw it, though. We look for outcomes in things that can't provide them. If you don't hear anything else today in this podcast, please take that one home with you. Write that one down. We look for outcomes in things that cannot provide them. Oh, I want to go deeper, but we don't have

Compromisers And The Switzerland Analogy

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the time. We look for answers in people that can't provide them. These are the people in your neighborhood. In your neighborhood. In your neighborhood. These are the people in your neighborhood. They bleed like you. They suffer like you. They fear like you. They hope like you. They live like you. They die like you. They need like you. And they hurt just like you. And we have that in common. We look for outcomes in things that cannot provide them. We're looking for resources in a bag with holes in the bottom of it. There's nothing there. We look for answers in people that can't provide them. We put our trust in all the wrong places. It's okay to love your mama and daddy. But they're not in control of your destiny. You have to decide that. Destiny starts with you. And it ends with you. So what do you think, guys? Thank you so much for joining us again. We really appreciate it. We are your weekly mirror check before you go change the world. Before you can do that, before that invention, before that great idea, that new innovation. Destiny starts with you. Your household. Then your community. Then your neighborhood. Then your city, your state, your nation. And then the world. Thank you so much for joining us again wherever you are and how we listen to our podcast. Thank you for making Call Me Mr. You part of your morning, your day, and your week. Check us out on our website. TheycallmeisterYou.com. M-I-S-T-A-Y-U.com. Check us out. Love to hear from you guys on our social media platforms, ask you a few questions, I'd love to hear your answers to them. Which personality type are you? Gotta be your mind's though. Where'd that mindset come from about not caring about our neighbors? Love to hear your thoughts on that as well. Whatever you're doing today. Whatever you're doing it with. We pray and hope. If you remember that, we're the same. Not very different at all. And we need each other. So please treat each other well. The way you want to be treated. Thank you so much for joining us again. Appreciate you guys. Have a great day. Coach out. Enjoy the music.