Episode #97: The Lost Art of ACCOUNTABILITY! Years of mistakes I made and how accountability changed my life! Societal impact on accountability and the need to take responsibility of our own!!

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the Dillandjamele podcast. And today you just have me doing a little bit of a rant, maybe?

I don't want to call it a rant. That's not what I do any longer. But what I am going to do is discuss

the lost art of accountability. Now, I am coming from the direction of somebody who was

Mr. Blame game, the most unaccountable person on the planet until I went through a transformation

and did a complete 180, 360, whatever you want to call it. And became what I believe is a far, far

more accountable person. Now, becoming accountable on everything that we do is extremely,

extremely difficult. And it's always a work in progress. But I will tell you that one of the

biggest and best changes that I ever made in my own personal life was when I finally started to

look in the mirror. And I'm not saying that metaphorically, I'm saying that in all seriousness,

looking directly at myself in the mirror and saying, this was on you. This was not on anybody else.

You can't continue to blame everybody else and make excuses for every single thing that goes

wrong or doesn't go your way. When you're able to sit there and look at yourself and talk to

and not in a crazy way, but in the way that it's almost like when you're getting that lecture that

you know you need to hear, you still don't want to hear it, but you know in your heart of hearts that

you need it. It is very difficult to look at your own self and lie to yourself. Now, there are

certainly people that can do it. But more often than not, when you take that time to just sit there

and stare directly in the mirror and actually have that conversation with yourself, it is very,

very difficult to be dishonest with yourself. And if you are able to do that, well, that's not a

great sign. But let's just take a couple steps back here on my end and then I'll discuss with you

the things that I have observed over the years and how it's progressively gotten worse. And

what my hope is when people hear this coming from me that it will help them change. And what I

mean by that is this, I am one of those people that most people don't look at and think I'm fear

mongering or being like overly aggressive in lecture. I am the realest guy you're going to come

across. I told my story plenty of times went to prison. I know what it's like to think you're

invincible and then realize you're not. And I just give it straight. I tell everybody this, this is

the old statement that I used to make on YouTube is that I'm not your dad. You do whatever you want,

but I am going to tell you this that I speak from experience and my whole goal here as I continuously

say is to do God's work and help people to prevent themselves from making so many of the mistakes

that I either made or observed other people made. I am a million miles from perfect, clearly

considering of all the things I've done wrong in the past. The one thing that I do think that I do

well is that I learn from my mistakes. And a lot of times I say this and if you look back in time,

some of the best teachers have made the most mistakes, but they don't repeat those mistakes and

they teach others how to how to improve from them. So I spent all of my younger years coming up

with an excuse for everything. I couldn't hold a job longer than a couple weeks for the most

part. And when I did, I was always in trouble or doing something that forced people that ran

businesses to eventually let me go. And I had some bosses that loved me as a person, but hated me

as a worker and didn't want to let me go, but I would push them to the limit. And I always came

home with an excuse of some kind to my mom and dad. There was always an excuse and it was never my

fault. And then that kind of trickled over into my sporting career where when I was younger,

I trained so hard and my dad started training me and I was three and four years old. And I was always

a pretty well elite athlete and in a much higher bracketed group of people, always a starter on

every team, but I'll tell you what happened. I started to take it for granted. I started to stop

my work ethic and my practicing and everybody caught up to me. And I always had an excuse. It was

always an excuse of why it happened. Some injury that didn't exist or some reason that I couldn't

do this or couldn't do that when in all actuality it was just I just thought I was better than everybody

and got lazy. And that stuff catches up to you. And instead of taking accountability and saying you

know what, I stopped putting in the effort. I stopped doing this. I just continued to make excuse

after excuse after excuse until you get to a point where it's just too late. You're never going

to catch up. You fall so far behind and you spend so much time and energy lying to yourself and

to others that it's too late. And that's my concern with so many people now. If you spend all of

these years, especially your your really quality years of transformation in your 20s to kind of

becoming an adult. And instead of you know putting your head down and grind and taking good

constructive criticism admitting when you're wrong and fixing it a lot of people and it's gotten

more and more prevalent and I'm going to get into why in a minute they make excuse after excuse after

excuse. And I'm not saying there's not valid excuses at times. I'm not saying that every time something

goes wrong, it's always your fault. That is not what I'm saying because that is also not true.

But more often than not, most people are able to admit their inadequacies or their

inability to perform certain way and just want to blame it on something else. And I will pin

point a lot of societal things. I don't like to get into any political stuff or government stuff,

but I do when it comes to certain things like our foods and things maybe with health care and

any sort of thing where I find that people in control and power are doing something that I know

not something that like, you know, have a conspiracy thought on that I know and I see to be true

and real because there's a big difference. I don't ever come on here and talk about stuff that I

am not certain. And I can tell you with one million percent certainty, not just from what I

observe and see, but from people that I know in certain places on what the messaging was meant

to do and what it is doing. And there was a definite precise measure here to cause division

and to cause people to make excuses and to try to create a different type of environment that does

not lead to success. And what I've seen is and so many of you have seen this. And let me preface

this by saying, I'm not saying that certain things don't exist. Racism does exist. There's a lot

of stereotypes that do exist. These things do exist. They have and they're always going. But

my point in saying that is now it's come to the point where every single person has a built

an excuse for every single thing that goes wrong. It could be your gender. It could be your race.

It could be your age. It could be the way that you look. There is a built in excuse for anything

and everything. And that has been come straight from the top. And that has been pushed down people

strolls to the point they actually believe it. Like I said, those things do exist. But to the extent

that we're told that they exist is so far fetched and so out so far out to left field. It is

absolutely assamine. Now there's a lot of people who don't fall for that stuff. Because there

are so many things that if you actually listen to and hear what's being said and you sit there and

go, what? The people that are pushing that down people's throws are actually the perpetrators,

the ones that actually believe that stuff. And they're the ones that have those kind of thoughts and

behaviors. But they point it and pin it on other people to then brainwash them to think that these

things are true when they're not. There's always going to be people that only hire men or women

or only hire whoever whatever their race is or that they'll be, you know, unable to give younger

people a chance or prejudice against older people. Those people are always going to exist. But

they are few and far between anymore as opposed to what it was. I don't know in the 50s and 60s when

that was a huge problem or anytime. And people are always going to feel a certain way and have

certain beliefs. That's just that's just human nature. But let me tell you something.

You're going to find that most business people see one color and it's green. So whoever

is they're going to make the most money off of and they're going to use a lot of people in

corporations, especially, it doesn't matter. It's who's ever going to benefit the most.

You know, the people that really want to get ahead and the smart people and the people that know

how to run a business, none of that stuff matters. What matters is who can I trust and who is going to

provide me the best avenue to make the most money possible. And some of those people are not great

people. They're using people. But I will tell you that their criteria is not based on a lot of

the things that people say it's based upon. It's whoever's going to benefit them the most. And

some people will really appreciate you and and give you anything and everything to keep you happy.

And some people will use you and run you into the ground. But the point is is that so many things

that have been baked into our minds and are thinking process do not exist. They don't. Not to

the extent that they're made. And then what happens is every single person then is unable to take

any sort of constructive criticism. And then they never know how to actually get better.

The most important thing that anybody that is trying to help you can do is give you constructive

criticism, not degrade you, not bameen you, but tell you that you're doing this wrong and you

need to improve it so that you can get better. My college basketball coach told us he said,

look, if I don't jump on you, if I don't get on you and I'm not pushing you, that means I don't

care about you. That means that you have no place on my team and that you're not going to go

anywhere. And I remember hearing that and I totally resonated with me. One thing I did well even

through my younger years was understand that I'm probably hearing stuff that pisses me off

that I don't want to hear, but I know it's good for me. And I was always good at knowing that.

Now the older I've gotten, I feel so thankful and blessed that my dad was a certain way that my

mom was a certain way that I used to get so angry about. See, my mom was an English teacher and my

dad was a mega athlete and they were on me on everything. But had they not been? I wouldn't have

the dedication to my craft that I do now and the thick skin that I have. See, I have extra thick

skin. So for anybody to say something about me or insult me, I could literally care less it. It

is one year out the other. It makes no difference to me. I always want my peers to like me or to

respect me and what I do. But at the same time, you know, the social media thing or the comment

thing, I mean, people that do that, I do hope they know that they're just really wasting their time.

But I do appreciate the follow and the thought in terms of getting the engagement because it helps

me to grow. But their life is so short. And I have such a high value on time. And obviously losing time

going to prison has made my time value skyrocket to where I understand that there is nothing, no

gold, no money, no cars, no house, no nothing that is more valuable than time. Nothing. You can't ever

get it back. You could lose a car. You could lose money. You could lose a house. You can eventually

buy it back. I've had I've lost everything. I had everything lost everything. That it's always

able to somehow, if you're determined enough to get it back, but you cannot buy your time back.

You can't create it back. There's nothing you can do when it's gone. It's gone. It's gone.

And let me tell you something. If you spend year after year after year, make an excuse after

excuse after excuse, instead of looking in the mirror and saying, okay, I messed this up. I didn't

do this right. How am I going to fix it? You're going to wake up and be 60 years old living in a

life of regret. And probably anger and resentment because you didn't do anything to correct the

problem that you're having. Instead, you spent so much time making an excuse after excuse after

excuse. You only regressed. You only pushed people out of your life. And now what? What do you have?

See, when you make a lot of excuses and do blame games, not only does it impede you from

making progress, but it turns a lot of people away and off. It will make people say things about

you when you're not around, resent you, not want to be around you. Because let me tell you

something right now. Everybody should have feelings. We all do. And I think you should be respectful of

people's feelings in terms of, you know, saying degrading things or hurtful things. I a million

percent against that. But this approach and way of life that has transpired over the past decade

in terms of you can't say anything to anybody. And words are causing people to get canceled or

hated so badly or even killed at certain points that I've seen. It is absolutely crazy to me.

You cannot be that sensitive and ever make it in life. It's just not the reality of the world.

And I, for one, I can't personally handle that. When I coach somebody and I teach somebody,

I always tell everybody the same thing. I will never, ever, ever tell you what you want to hear.

I will tell you what you need to hear. Because if I tell you what you want to hear,

that means I do not care one bit about you. And I don't have that in me any longer. I would just

assume not answer as opposed to tell somebody what they want to hear. And I've always been that way.

And a lot of my friends really love that about me. Even in the party years, I had a friend that

he would only ask me if he looked good or whatever before we went out because I'd tell him and I'd say,

Hey, man, I don't want you to go out looking bad. You know, I want you to have fun and

and feel good. And so he'd always ask me and I tell him sometimes, yeah, I'd fix that or do that.

You know, and I told my wife when I met her, I said, Queenie, I said, if I'm talking too much,

if I look like shit, if there's something wrong that I'm doing, you have to tell me so that I don't

keep doing it or I don't go make a fool of myself or whatever. Think about that. No, I want everybody

that's listening to actually think about that. Wouldn't you want somebody to tell you something you

were doing wrong as opposed to you continuously doing it wrong over and over and over? Wouldn't it

make a heck of a lot more sense to know exactly what you're doing wrong so you can fix it and not

make that mistake or prolong something or continue to do it? Because compounding mistakes

is just going to make things harder to fix, possibly turn more people away or off, lose you

opportunities, develop bad habits. I always want to know everything that I'm doing wrong doesn't

mean I'm always going to agree, but I want to hear it. So I at least have some sort of an idea

and can actually go check myself in the mirror and say, hey, you need to be honest about this

and do you think that it's something wrong and if it is, you better fix it. You know,

I'll never forget the conversation I had and I said this on some podcast but that I've

guessed it on but I'm sure a lot of you haven't heard me say it. And I'll never forget I was in

prison and I was on the phone with my mom. It's a conversation. I'll never forget I can picture

the whole thing where I was sitting what I was doing and I was on the phone with her and

this was one of those moments that was gut check moment because I was complaining about the

treatment and everything in there and how miserable I was and she said, you know, you can play in

every single day and you do this. What was me and what was me? And she said, did you ever take the

time to think about the people that are scared, worried about you that you let down the people that

invested so much time and energy into you and look what you did, held their worry or how that

affected them. And I just sat there. I normally never had a loss for words. I didn't even know what to say.

And then she said to me, and this was the one that stung the most, were me and your dad really

that bad apparent. And I started to have, you know, well, well done. I started to have tears

rolled out my eyes, which I really didn't want to do in prison. Not the greatest thing. But

I snapped a back real quick and I said, absolutely not. I said, there was nothing different you could

have ever done. I made these decisions. This was on me 100%. And I'll tell you that was a turning

point for me because I could hear the hurt in her voice and I didn't want it. And I'm getting

chills right now saying it because I know I can, I can, I can, I can just picture myself sitting

and what I thought and how I felt. And I'll never forget it. But that's the time when I started

to take accountability for everything that I was doing wrong. And, you know, if you're able to do

that, then you can be honest with yourself and you can fix problems and you can overcome them.

And, you know, once I got married and things changed and I started to also look at myself in

the mirror and say to myself, you know, how are you going to handle this when you're married? Are

you going to argue and never be accountable or are you going to be responsible for the things

that you did wrong? And I learned very quickly to have a successful marriage. You have to be able

to apologize when you're wrong. You have to know when you're wrong and you've got to be accountable

because, you know, as a man, you should be taking care of your family, not to say that the

woman shouldn't work or whatnot. That's not what I'm saying. But as a man, you want to take care

of your family and you want them to rely on you and you want to be there. And I'm not just talking

about your wife. I'm talking about if you have kids, even parents, which as they get older,

you know, it's just it's part of it. And I'm accountable for everybody and my actions

are going to determine a lot of things and on how things go in our lives. So I need to be

accountable and everything that and everything that I do. And it's one of those things that

it's another area where I see where dads or husbands, they fail. And they never take accountability

for anything and they only care about themselves and selfishness and accountability. They kind of

go hand in hand. Most people that are accountable are selfless, not selfish. And you'll find that

a lot of selfish people are also not accountable for anything. It's always me, me, me, me. But it's

never me, me, me, me when there's a problem. Everything's always selfish. And I was that way too.

When I was unaccountable, I was so selfish. And it was always dealing this, dealing that,

dealing first. That's why with this podcast and everything that I do in my life, I try to be

everybody else first. See, I'm God first. And I make that very clear. And when you're God first,

you have to be accountable. You have to be because you're living for God. And that's another thing

that's really helped my accountability journey. And it's a journey. It's a neverending journey

because you're never going to be perfect at it. And you have to one of the arts of accountability

is no one when you weren't accountable and then catching yourself and being accountable for not

being accountable. And it's something that is a it's a constant effort. But I'll tell you this,

once you start actually doing it and start having that in your heart and in your way of life,

you feel a heck of a lot better. I'll tell you what, it's crazy to say this, but

I've admitted I'm wrong more and felt a lot better about it because you know what?

I don't care what anybody says. We all know in our hearts when we're right or wrong. We all

know when we're being dishonest. We all know when something is off and it's our fault we do.

Everybody does. I think there's some people that are really good at blocking it out. Or

you know coming across a certain way, but very very very very very very few people don't know

the difference between right and wrong and when they're wrong or not. I've thought dirty before

I've argued dirty and done this in the past and I don't I try to never do it anymore where I'm

and you just don't fight fair and arguments or whatever. And you know when your heart you're wrong

and I always go back and say it and I don't I try to never do it with my wife anymore because I used

to be when we were first together really bad with this where I just I wouldn't fight fair I

I'd bring up points that were true but gloss over the things that that I knew that I was causing.

You know and it's it's an unfair way of doing things and and I see it so much when you actually admit

it feels good it gets it off your chest you never have to worry about it and you can work to fix it.

There's nothing better than getting things out that are bothering you or when you know you're

wrong and fixing it because life is all about making mistakes and then learning from them

and fixing them. That's just part of life. Now as you get older you hope to make less of them for

sure but that's part of the experience of growing old but when you're accountable people respect you

you do so much better people love to see people that admit when they're wrong and show how they're

going to make it right. You know and I think people are scared to do that I really do I know I was

for a lot of years but I'll tell you what once it clicks and you figure it out and you just

you just do it you just take the responsibility it feels really damn good so you know like I said I

did not want this to be a rant I wanted this to be something that really provided a lot of help

and guidance to people and I really really hope and pray that it did so you know I really appreciate

the support and everybody listening I have nothing but love and the desire to help everybody out there

that's listening so anything that I can do I'm going to continue to do it I'm going to continue

to work as hard as I can to talk about the mistakes I've made and the things that I've observed and try

to help people grow in their health journey but also they're just as a person in general because

it all goes hand in hand my friends so that being said stay tuned for plenty more to come Dylan

Jamelie signing off