Would you like to know the secret to success? It's taking 100 percent responsibility for everything you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings—everything! This is not easy to do.
In fact, most of us have been conditioned to blame something outside ourselves for the parts of our lives we don't like. We tend to blame our parents, our bosses, our friends, our co-workers, our clients, our spouses, the weather, the economy, our astrological charts, our poor finances—anyone or anything on which we can pin the blame. We never want to look at where the real problem lies: ourselves.
If you want to create the life of your dreams, then you must take 100 percent responsibility for your life as it is right now. That means giving up all your excuses, all your victim stories, all the reasons why you can't do something and why you haven't done something up until now and all your need to blame outside circumstances. You have to give them all up…forever.
You must take the position that you have always had the power to make it different, to get it right, to produce the desired results. For whatever reason (ignorance, lack of awareness, fear, needing to be right, needing to feel safe) you have chosen not to exercise that power. Who knows why? It really doesn't matter. The past is the past. All that matters now is that from this point forward you will choose—that's right, it's a choice—to act as if (that's all that's required: to act as if) you are 100 percent responsible for everything that does or does not happen to you
