Take Full Responsibility

The very top people took full responsibility for their life outcomes.  They knew that if they blamed others, they would give their power away to them. 

They looked at what they were doing to cause the results they were getting, and if they didn’t like it, they controlled the controllables and changed what they were doing, not doing, who and where they were hanging around, and what they were learning and paying attention to in order to change the results they were getting.

They didn’t wait for anyone to “let them”.  They just didn’t let anyone stop them.

Your life and your situation – take full responsibility.

Protect your attention

Human attention is the most heavily hunted, mined and traded resource on the planet.  

If you are on social media a lot, you are the one being bought and sold.

I see people who spend nearly all their time looking at their phone, and when the phone goes away, they are lost.  They have nothing of their own.  They don’t know what to do.  They have no goals of their own to work towards.  They have become a product of the machine, and lost some percentage of themselves in the process.

When I go on YouTube, I can feel myself getting sucked in.  I can be there for hour after senseless hour.  What I want is mixed in with what I don’t.  It takes a lot of self-control to resist.

Can you sit alone for two hours by yourself, no device, with a pad or journal and some pens and work towards your better future?

Can you walk outside without a device and engage with the world without it?

It’s a start.

Protect your attention.

What brings you joy and happiness?

Let me give you an unexpected flip on the question from author Michael Singer –

“If you can feel joy and happiness all the time, who cares what happens on the outside?”

Nothing can bring you joy and happiness for long.  Only you can do that.

Lying creates stress

Lying creates stress. 

You have to worry about getting caught. 

You have to remember the story you made up and all the versions you told to different people.  

You have to lie again to keep it going.

Your subconscious eats at you (hopefully) because it is not who you are, or want to be.

This all creates stress.  That is how a lie detector works – it does not sense a lie, it senses stress.

You don’t need to lie.  Just tell the truth and stop worrying about your ego and how you look. 

Most people don’t think about you much at all anyway.  You being human will be no surprise to anyone, and you being honest will be refreshing and appreciated.

Don’t lie. 

It’s not worth the trouble or the long-term expense.

No goal – no energy

If you don’t have a goal that energizes you each day, you will feel tired all the time.

I find this to be true for me.  If I do not have a mission, or if it is vague and I have not decided what steps to take next (today), my energy level is down.

Once I get my mind on a worthy goal or the next step toward it, I’m engaged and do not think so much about how I feel, how hungry I am, how tired I am, or my little aches and pains.  I have a job to do!

Do you have a goal you are working toward that energizes you each day?