It’s YOUR LIFE! Do SOMETHING with it!
One of the most pervasive loads of crap in culture today is that we are entitled to a great life!
That somehow, somewhere, someone (certainly not us!) is responsible for filling our lives with blissful happiness, an exciting career (with a boat load of cash!) , amazing families (with no grief!) and personal relationships with those models from the Victoria Secret catalogue! ( insert male version if your female!)
Simply because we exist!
BUT the real truth – and the one lesson we MUST learn!
Is there is only one person responsible for the quality of YOUR life and how its lived!
That person is YOU!
If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life!
Your achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships (or lack of!), the state of your health and fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings!
EVERYTHING!!
This isn’t going to be easy! Nothing worth a damn is!
In fact most of us have been conditioned to blame someone outside of ourselves for the parts of our life we don’t like!
We blame our parents, our boss, our friends, those idiot media people (well this may be true!), our coworkers, our clients, our partner, the weather!, the economy, our astrological chart!, the witch doctor up the street!, our lack of money…
Anyone or anything we can pin the blame on!!
We never want to look at where the real problem is…
Ourselves!
If YOU want the life you dream of then YOU are going to have to take 100% responsibility it!
That means giving up all your bullshit excuses, all your “why me” victim stories!
All the reasons why you can’t and why you haven’t up till now, and all your blaming of outside circumstances.
Give up your whining forever and grow a pair!
The past is the past!
All that matters now is that from this point forward you choose – THATS RIGHT! - your choice!
You choose to act as if you are 100% responsible for everything that does or doesn’t happen to you!
Everything you experience TODAY is the result of choices you have made in the past!
You have control over three things in your life!
The thoughts you think!
The images you visualize!
The actions you take!
How you use these three things determines everything you experience!
If you don’t like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses!
Change your shitty thoughts to positive ones!
Change what you daydream about!
Change your habits!
Change what you read and watch!
Change your friends!
Change how you talk!
Its a choice…
If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got!
This blog is fucking inspirational Duane!
I really enjoy my daily kick up the ass from you.
AWESOME.
I believe our greatest power is in our decisions. We ALWAYS have a choice. Always.
Great stuff dude.
JJ
Duane,
Well said!
Life is a matter of choices. We might not be able to control what cards we’re landed with. But it’s our choice of making the most out of that deck of cards.
For that, we need discipline & actions.
John Ho
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If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, and you keep getting what you’ve always got, you need to take a look at why you keep doing it. you might find comfort in the familiarity of doing the same things and getting the same results, while all the while expecting or hoping for a different result.
isn’t that the definition of insanity?
Don Shepherd
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I like it – lots!
Great post Duane,
We are our choices.
Bob Kaufer
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Duane,
Man, this post is awesome! It is simply AWESOME! I agree — we’ve got to stop making excuses, grow a pair, and get on with the life we want to create.
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GREAT post today! It really drives home the point that we are the sum product of the choices we’ve made.
Pam
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And indeed, I will NEVER have those long legs of being a Victoria’s Secret model! But it’s a good thing that I do really well and succeed massively with men without being leggy and over 5’7″!
More great life actualizing posts here at your website, Duane. It’s great.
Best regards,
April Braswell
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I completely agree. Whenever my kids start a sentence with “You made me…..” I remind them that they are in control of what they do and say, nobody “made you” do whatever you did.
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