Hi guys! Welcome to Episode 559 of the wildly successful lifestyle podcast! Thanks for being here! It’s so good to be with you a couple times a week. Even if it’s just for 10 minutes at a time. Sometimes that’s all we need to get our heads on straight for the day though, right? I know for me I could read one little quote and it adjusts my mindset so hopefully these short episodes do the same for you. Be sure to subscribe and share them and leave a 5 star review if you’re loving them!
Alright, Have you ever been in a situation where someone did something mean or backhanded to you, maybe they lied about you or maybe they lied to get a promotion you had been working for? Maybe you just saw people who were doing things to get ahead that didn’t seem right to you and it didn’t seem fair that they were getting away with it?
It could be anything. Maybe you were the target of the mean girl on the tennis team and it seems no one stood up for you when she did what she did. My point is. So many times we see things that we don’t think are right and we don’t think are fair because someone did something that we wouldn’t do to get ahead or maybe they just treat people poorly and seemingly always get away with it. We wonder how they still have friends or how they sleep at night knowing what they did to get ahead. We may even secretly plot revenge that we never carry out or wish for bad things to come their way because it would be nice to see them get what they deserve or what they had coming to them.
I can remember I worked in an office and there was someone who it just seemed like was an awful person but because this person was related to the boss just seemed to get away with everything. I remember thinking “man this person is terrible and still lives this incredible life, it doesn’t seem fair”. That’s a normal human response I think. Eventually I moved on from the company only to find out later that that company went under and took a bunch of people with it.
It’s not our job to fix wrongs that other people do. It’s not our job to make them pay or see them punished.
The best thing you can do is live your life the best way you know how with integrity and what is meant for you will be yours. Nothing anyone else does can deny you of your destiny unless you allow it. Unless you get tied up in their bad ways and sometimes that simply means wasting energy on wishing them ill, wasting your precious energy on exacting revenge because they shouldn’t be able to get away with that. But here’s what I have come to realize.
No one in this world gets away with anything. It may look like it to you because you aren’t living their life. But people who treat other people poorly, even if their life looks like a fairytale on the outside, they are paying for it on the inside. People who lie cheat and steal to get ahead, eventually it catches up with them. And I’m not talking about one off moments. We all have done things we aren’t proud of, that we wish we could take back but hopefully we learned and it made us better people in the long run. I’m talking about systemic issues so maybe politicians who have cheated their way to the top, or the mean girl who has always been mean.
You know, it’s so easy to get caught up in that cycle of frustration, isn’t it? When you see someone acting in ways that feel so wrong, it’s natural to want justice. It’s human to want things to feel fair. But let’s take a step back for a moment and think about what fairness really means. Fairness doesn’t always mean someone gets punished in the way we imagine. Sometimes, fairness is about trusting that the universe has a way of working things out, even if we don’t see it unfold in real-time.
Nobody escapes the consequences of their actions. Not really. Think about your own life. If you ever did something you weren’t proud of, you may have gotten away with it so to speak, but it ate at you a little bit and if you’re someone who is always trying to be your best, you learned something from that and it made you better. The same is true for everyone else even if it doesn’t look that way. Other people are no different. Just sometimes people don’t learn from it and it eventually catches up to them in one way or another.
Here’s something else to think about that might shift how you see things. Sometimes what feels like a hurtful attack is just someone acting on what they believe is right for them. It’s crucial to leave space for that too. Just because we perceive it as wrong doesn’t mean that it is. If you’ve been listening for a while you know that My sister distanced herself from me and my other siblings after we left the religion we grew up in. it’s been deeply painful to me and it felt like a personal rejection, but I also know she did it because she thinks she’s protecting her kids from influences that that could pull them away from their faith. Her actions aren’t from malice they are from her religious beliefs. It doesn’t erase the hurt but it does soften the blow. Not all so called “bad actions” are malicious, but there’s still consequences to those as well.
See, when we talk about karma—or whatever you want to call it—it’s not about some cosmic lightning bolt striking someone down. It’s about the natural flow of life. When someone builds their world on dishonesty or cruelty, that foundation is really shaky. It might hold up for a while, but cracks start to form. Maybe it’s in their peace of mind, their relationships, or even their sense of self. You don’t have to wish harm on them for that to happen—it just does.
And here’s the best part: you don’t have to be the one to make it happen. You don’t have to carry the weight of fixing someone else’s wrongs. That’s not your job, and honestly, it’s not mine either. Our job is to show up as our best selves, to live with kindness and integrity, and to focus on what we can control. Because when you live that way, you’re building something solid—something that lasts. You’re creating a life that feels good from the inside out, not just one that looks good on the outside.
My challenge to you this week is to Remember that life has a way of giving back what you put into it. So, when you’re tempted to focus on someone else’s unfair actions or get caught up in what they’re doing wrong, pause and shift your energy. Maybe just hand that thought off to the Universe. Let it go. Instead choose one little thing like sending a thoughtful text or mentally jot down 3 things you are grateful for in that moment.
Because your energy is precious and what you focus on shapes who you become. Share this with 3 people who deserve good karma. I love you guys, I’ll talk to you in a few days!
