Take Responsibility For Your Life

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE


Take and accept hundred percent responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. Refuse to make excuses and stop blaming other people for your failure. Stop complaining about other people and things you are not achieving in your life. Never criticize other people for anything. If there is anything in life you do not want it is up to you to change it. You are in charge of your life.

- Decide what you want
- Develop a plan
- Take action

Decide what you want

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but of choice – you choose what you want in life.

This is the first step to getting the things you want in life. The reason why most people do not get what they want is they have not decided what they want, they have no goals and they have not taken any action towards what they want. They refuse to take calculated risks. They believe in wishes and luck that if only such and such could happen. In life such wishes never materialize. Some believe that the government owes them something, their employers owes them that promotion. This is pure ‘entitlement mentality.’ These people are disillusioned with their lives because they have no clear idea in their minds of what they want in life and how to achieve it. If you are not making any head way in your life, it is possible that you do not have a clear vision, purpose and goals in life. Do not worry, if this is you, because by the time you finish this special report, you will know what you have to do.
Develop a Plan

It is all well and good that you have written down your goals, but the equation is incomplete and will be of little benefit towards your success. Your written goals have to be supported by an intense burning desire to achieve them. How do you create this burning desire? There is a difference between a burning desire and worry. I am not advocating that you should worry about what you want, but I am urging you to develop an unshakable belief that will excite and inspire you to accomplish your goals. Write down all the rewards, advantages and benefits you will derive from achieving your goals. These will stimulate your desire and motivate you to accomplish all your goals.

There is no hard and fast rule to develop an action plan. You can use mind mapping or brain storming for creating a detailed to-do list for achieving your goals. Through this process, you can determine what information you will need to gather; people you need to talk to; how much money you will need to raise; which deadlines you will need to meet and what small steps you will need to take for each and every goal.

Once you are done with your mind map, convert your to-do list into daily action list. Organize them in terms of their priority and slot dates by which to start and finish each step and goal.

The difference between a dream and a plan is that a dream expresses a desire to achieve something while a plan expresses a method for accomplishing the dream.


Take action

The only way to start is to start. Do not procrastinate and postpone getting started. Do not think about the difficulty, obstacles or unpleasant features of the task, just start. Jump right in and get going without a lot of deliberation. The moment you start providence moves in too, and all sorts of things begin happening that would never have occurred. A stream of unforeseen events, circumstances, situations and material assistance come your way.

When you take action, you trigger all kinds of things that will inevitably carry you to success. People with similar goals become aligned with you. You begin to learn things from your experience that which cannot be learned from listening to others or from reading books. You begin to get feedback about how to do it better, more efficiently and more quickly. Things that once seemed confusing begin to become clear. Things that once appeared difficult begin to be easier. You begin to attract others who will support and encourage you. All good things begin to flow in your direction once you begin to take action. It’s true the defining moment of taking action always gets the miracles going - it’s magical. Try it.

Open a special file marked ‘goals accomplished’ and file all the information you will gather on a specific goal; your research notes, minutes you took with companies, notes you made with people you talked to; dates of appointment and dates of telephone calls you made. Once after a quarter, half yearly and year end, go through the list of your achievements no matter how small they may look in your eyes, this will inspire you to persevere when the going gets rough.


Justice Mandhla is the author of What they did not teach you in school: Life Long Learning Tips to land a job straight out of school and he spends a great deal of his full-time writing day researching and writing about job search strategies.
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