Take full responsibility for your life

Take full responsibility for your life

Take full responsibility for your life!

 

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything
that happens to you

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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most
people are frightened of responsibility.”
Sigmund Freud
There is only one person that's responsible for your life and that is YOU! Not your boss, not your
spouse, not your parents, not your friends, not your clients, not the economy, not the weather.
YOU! The day we stop blaming others for everything that happens in our life, everything
changes! Taking responsibility for your life is taking charge of your life and becoming the
protagonist of it. Instead of being a victim of circumstances, you obtain the power to create your
own circumstances or at least the power to decide how you are going to act in the face of
circumstances that life presents to you. It doesn’t matter what happens to you in your life; it
matters what attitude you adopt. And the attitude you adopt is your choice!
If you blame your life situation on others, what has to happen to make your life better? All of the
others have to change! And that my friend I tell you, is not going to happen. If you are the
protagonist, YOU have the power to change the things that you don't like in your life! You are in
control of your thoughts, actions, and feelings. You are in control of your words, the series you
watch on TV, and the people you spend your time with. If you don't like your results, change
your input - your thoughts, emotions, and expectations. Stop reacting to others and start
responding. Reaction is automatic. Responding is consciously choosing your response.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame -Erica Jong

The victim says: Every bad thing in my life is others’ fault, but if you are not part of the
problem, then you also can’t be a part of the solution or - in other words - if the problem is
caused by the outside, the solution is also on the outside. If you’re coming in late to work
because of “traffic”, what has to happen so that you can get to work on time? Traffic has to
disappear magically! Because as long as there is traffic - you will always be late. Or you can act
like a protagonist and leave home on time. Then it depends on you.
So once again: even if you don’t have control over the stimuli that environment sends you
continuously, you have the liberty o choose your behavior in facing the situation.
The person with a “victim mentality” only reacts, is always innocent, and constantly blames
others for his or her life situation, while using the past as justification and putting their hopes on
a future which will miraculously bring solutions to problems or a change in others who are
causing the troubles.