Take Personal Responsibility, Start Living Your Real Life

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No one is responsible for your life. No one is responsible for your thoughts. No one is responsible for your dreams. No one is responsible for your future. Why is that? Because your future belongs to you. Your life is yours. Your dreams are yours. You are responsible for making your life happen. If you are waiting for other people to come and help you, to lift you up, to make you bigger than you are, you are going to wait forever.

Don’t wait. Start living your life. Because you have waited long enough. Instead of waiting for other people, why not take your own personal responsibility? Why not take charge of your own life? Why not? What are you still waiting for?

If you are still waiting for the right time to start living your life, know this: ‘Whether you are living your life or not, life is not waiting for you. Life is always moving forward.’ So if you want to improve yourself, you must take responsibility for your life. When you take responsibility for your life, you stop blaming other people. You stop blaming your government. You stop blaming your parents. You stop blaming your teachers. You stop blaming yourself. When you take responsibility for your life, that is where you start to live your life. You stop waiting for other people to rescue you. You start living your life. You start doing things that are meaningful, things that make you happy. You start facing your fears. You start attracting positive things into your life.

Because you attract who you are, not who you are not. If you don’t want to be controlled by others, you must take responsibility for your life. If you do not have the courage to control your thoughts, your thoughts will take charge of your life. If you do not control your feelings, your feelings will control you. If you don’t take responsibility for your actions, your actions will control you. Your actions will take charge of your life.

When that happens, you are no longer living your life; you are living by default. You are not living your own life; you are living the life designed by other people. Please don’t let that happen to you. Because you are bigger than your circumstances. If you don’t want to be controlled by other people, you must take responsibility for your life.

When you take responsibility for your life, things change. You change. Your life changes. It is through taking responsibility for your life that you make yourself stronger, better. Because taking personal responsibility frees you to take care of what is important to you, to face your fears, to do the hard things that you have been avoiding.

Taking personal responsibility for your life gives you the freedom to choose your future, to do what you love. When you take your own personal responsibility, you can create a solution to the problem you are trying to solve. When you take personal responsibility for your life, you stop blaming other people for your failures. When you take personal responsibility for your life, you create more opportunities for yourself.

Remember, your life doesn’t change when you think about changing your life. Your life changes when you take responsibility for your life.

Whatever it is that is holding you back from taking reponsibility for your life, let it go.

How To Create A Life You Love

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Live your life. If you are not living your life, you are ignoring your dreams.

You are ignoring your happiness. You are igoring what matters to you. You don’t have the courage to follow your dreams, to listen to your heart.

To achieve your dreams, what you want in your life, to create a great life for yourself, according to Ben Arment, ‘… it starts with having the courage to name your dream.’

‘Discovering your dream is about finding your sweet spot. It’s where these four components- passion, demand, platform, and giftedness– come together in one coordinated expression.’

‘This is your calling- to face your fears, surrender your comfort, and live life to the fullest no matter how challenging it can be. It’s worth it.’

‘A dream isn’t something you just make up for yourself. It’s what life has been preparing you for all along.’

‘Your dream is the culmination of all experiences, gifts, passions, and opportunities you’ve ever had in your life. It all amounts to a unique expression that only you are capable of bringing to the world.’

‘Pursuing your dream is difficult. It requires things of you that have never been called on before. It changes who you are and leaves you never the same.’

‘For your dream to take off, it must meet a need, solve a problem, or satisfy a craving.’

‘Bringing your dream to life requires tremendous passion to withstand the challenges that come with it. Without passion, you become distracted by every excuse, opportunity, and diversion.’

‘You can’t break out from the pack by looking like everyone else in your field.’

‘To be original requires a new way of looking at your industry.’

‘Your best defense against competitors is to keep improving the idea with the same innovation that got you there.’

Source

Ben Arment (2014). Dream Year: Make the Leap from a Job You Hate to a Life You Love