A famous catchphrase of the renowned psychologist and phylosophical thinker, professor Jordan B. Peterson, referring to the fact that instead of starting to complain about our national or global problems, we should rather focus on what we can do to improve ourselves, our family, our local community, the spaces we are personally responsible for (like our rooms).
"This capitalistsystem really sucks, I'm going to do everything to overthrow it!"
"I'm not sure you are qualified to do that safely in any way. Instead, you could set an example and improve things in your immediate sphere of competence! Clean up your room, for starters!"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)