Taking 100% Responsibility

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“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”--Jim Rohn (America’s foremost business philosopher)
What are the ways to be outstanding and to excel in our position that we move up to the level we desire? Being a leader is a process and a mindset. Everyone can be a leader. A great and respected leader takes 100% responsibilities. One-hundred percent responsibility is applying an outstanding standard, not average or mediocre. We have to push ourselves to achieve outstanding results, never making excuses.
We often hear to take 100% responsibility for our life. What is the big deal about it? The big deal is that it moves we from victim to victor of our life. It puts us at cause and not at effect, meaning that we accept that we create our life and not just reacting to it. We appreciate that things happen for us and not to us.
In other words, taking 100% responsibility puts us at choice and that allows us to choose how to respond to life’s challenges. We would actually move into the driver seat of our life’s journey. Most of all, taking 100% responsibility changes our energy. As we know, we are energy. Our thoughts, feelings, words and actions are energy, and the law of attraction brings us more of what we think and feel. It merely matches the energy of our thoughts and feelings with experiences that will give us the same energy. Now, when we broadcast thoughts that result in us feeling good, the law of attraction responds by bringing us the experiences that will confirm us feeling good. So, it pays to take 100% responsibility of our life.
Let’s explore 9 ways how this looks in everyday life including your business.
1. Take 100% responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, words and actions.
To take 100% responsibility for your life is to take 100% responsibility for your powers of thinking, feeling, speaking and acting because this is the structure of all human experience. You create your life with your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. You take 100% responsibility when you accept that the thoughts are your thoughts coming from your mind. How you feel happens in your body and is a result of your thoughts. The words you speak come from your mouth and voice. The actions you take, are taken by you. Nobody can push your buttons, because you are the button maker!
2. Stop blaming
Stop blaming your partners, parents, economy and your upbringing for your misfortune. Blaming keeps you in victim mode and robs you of changing your situation. When you stop blaming and accept 100% responsibility, you shift from victim to victor.
3. Stop complaining
Complaining is another form of blaming and playing victim as if you have no choice. It also shows that you focus on lack, things going wrong, things happening to you.
4. Refuse to take anything personal
Assuming that everything is about you. You don’t have control over how other people respond, you only have control over how you respond. Refuse to take anything personal. It is most probably not about you, but about the issue at hand.
5. Make yourself happy
Taking 100% responsibility for your happiness is liberating. First of all, happiness does not come from outside. It is not the job of your partners, parents and friends to make you happy. To be happy is a decision, and the gateway to happiness is gratitude.
6. Live in the present moment
Life is now. There is only one moment now. The past is history, the future is a mystery, so there is only now, this moment. Take 100% responsibility for this moment and make the best of it to redeem the past and create the future you want. Choose your thoughts carefully in every moment. When you become present, you have the awareness of what you what you want to create in that moment to shape your future.
7. Use the power of intention
You have the power to choose. In fact, you are making choices all the time. Become intentional in making choices by having a vision in mind. A vision for your life, your business, your relationship, your health, wealth, etc. Living intentionally by deliberately making choices to move you forward toward manifesting your vision or outcomes, is consciously taking 100% responsibility for your life.
8. Feel calm and confident
When you take 100% responsibility for your life, you step into a place of calm confidence. You feel calm because you know that you are consciously in charge of yourself and that you can choose how you respond.
9. Look for the good in people
There’s a saying that we judge ourselves by our intentions and we judge others by their behavior. Make it your new habit to look for the intentions behind people’s behavior. So when we understand where someone comes from, we let go of judgement.
Here are a few indicators that you might not have yet taken 100% responsibility and control over your life:
• You often come up with excuses for your behavior.
• You blame others for your own circumstances.
• You have problems on your assigned tasks.
• You want others to fix your life.
• You assume that your life will better when you have ….
• You feel like you deserve better, yet you are not working for it and want others to fix it for you.
If you really want to take 100% responsibility in your life, you would follow the following steps:
1. Give up all your excuses. They won’t get you anywhere.
2. If you don’t like the outcome, change your response to it. You are the only creator.
3. Understand that everything you experience today is the result of your choices you made in the past. Therefore, you can make better decisions now!
4. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got. Change your methods to change your results!
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