Take 100% Responsibility For Your Life.

Sometimes you can find yourself being frustrated with the way your life may be going. Sometimes you may even get the feeling of total despair and very often you can feel there is no way out of a certain situation let alone coming close to achieving your hopes and dreams in the near future. More often than not, you will find yourself blaming others for the way you feel or for certain circumstances. BREAKING NEWS!...It doesn't have to be like this!

What you need to do is take a long hard and very honest look at yourself and take responsibility for your actions.
Every choice you have ever made has put you where you are now. Every thought, decision and action has brought you to this point in your life. Now, we all make bad decisions, I have made more than my fair share and I also blamed everyone else for my situations. Often I felt like I was running on a hamster wheel, running and running and getting nowhere fast until one day I decided to jump off that wheel and listen to some great advice that I have never forgotten since.

I was very lucky at that time to be working with a great man who gave me this piece of advice. He has since passed away but I have never forgotten what he said to me on this particular day. Just as I happened to be launching into my umpteenth repeat of complaining and protesting about how my life was so bad and nothing ever went right, he stopped me mid sentence and said to me..."Do you take 100% responsibility for your life?"
" I think I do" I answered.
"This is a yes or no question" he said "Either you do or you don't"
I shrugged my shoulders.
He continued " Have you ever blamed anyone for your circumstances? Have you ever complained?
"Yes I have" I said.
"Then you don't take 100% responsibility for your life" he said.
He definitely made me think. Taking responsibility for your life means that you understand and acknowledge that everything that happens to you is created by you and only you. If you are overweight...you created that, you ate the food, no-one else. If you have no money, your choices created that. It's a harsh reality but it's true, think about it. Until you accept that you create your life you will keep running on that hamster wheel of complaint.
So, I ask you the same question.... Are you willing to take 100% responsibility for your life and jump off the wheel?...I did!