One of the foundation stones of personal mastery is taking responsibility for yourself and where you’re at in your life.
When you’re in charge of yourself, you’re in charge of your life. Once you’ve decided now, that you’re in charge of you’re life, you’re on the path to joy and fulfilment. And yes, it is this simple.
In taking responsibility for yourself and where you’re at in your life, you take control of how you think, feel and behave. This is what puts you in charge, because this gives you the power to choose and therefore to choose to receive.
When I first heard about taking responsibility for myself and how I how felt, I got very caught up in the “excuses, guilt and blame game.” All the anger and resentment I had felt towards outside circumstances, I re-directed at myself. Surprise, surprise, this got me nowhere and was very far removed from taking 100% responsibility.
Taking responsibility is about:
creating and maintaining a productive internal relationship between you and yourself, and
developing a trust between you and your unconscious mind so you become fully integrated on all levels of being; mind body and soul.
In developing this relationship with yourself, you develop a reliable resource for moving forward in your life, allowing you access to incredible sources of knowledge, judgment and wisdom. It’s this trust in yourself which allows you to feel the strength and centredness of your own increasing personal mastery.
If you’ve taken the time to read this, then you, as well as I are on the path of personal mastery and as a result making the world a better place. For some people that means grand and visionary, for others that means impacting the lives of those less fortunate than themselves. And for yet others it could be as simple as recognizing the beauty and wonder of the world around them.
Because you too are on the path of personal mastery that also means you’re aware of other successful people around you and you’ll also know now that taking 100% responsibility for themselves and where they’re at is one very common trait of successful people. When something goes awry for a successful person what you’ll hear yourself say are things like:
“I took my eye off the ball.” “I allowed my focus to become scattered.” “I didn’t do my research thoroughly.” “I didn’t listen to my intuition/gut feeling.” “This happened, but it allowed me to do this, and that’s meant I’ve now been able to ....”
Right here, right now you can begin letting go of excuses, blame and guilt and begin taking 100% responsibility for yourself and your outcomes, reclaim your personal power, and watch your whole life change.
From this position of personal mastery and power you will enable yourself to let go of your limiting beliefs and decisions, and the stories and excuses you’ve created to account for where you’re at in your life.
If you really want to create the life of your dreams the bottom line is you have to be willing to draw your line in the sand and say to yourself, “That was then, this is now. I am the creator of my reality.”
The process is this simple. I am not here to convince you that this is so because whatever you choose to believe you’ll be right. If you choose to believe this process of adjusting what you believe is hard, you’ll be right. If on the other hand you choose to believe it is easy you’ll also be right.
So, what do you choose?
A useful belief to take on, to fast track the creation of the reality of your dreams if you choose now is believing that you and only you are 100% responsible for the creation of your reality and that you achieve this easily and naturally right here, right now.
I dare you to make a commitment in 2008, to Choose Your Own “Luck.”
by Leanne Watson is the creator of the Peak Performance audio Feeling Great for no particular reason, an audio designed for busy people to take charge of the way they think, feel and behave. Subscribe to her powerful newsletter The Secrets of Your Successful Mind which is full of tips, tricks and techniques for accelerating learning and change and receive free access to Feeling Great the movie preview #2.
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