(Leveraging on responsibility) The greatest paradox of life that we are all responsible fate, yet the're so many factors beyond our control. We have no control over the weather, or over the actions of what others do to us, but we can always control our response.
Stephen covey breaks down the word responsible as being response- able.
For most people life is a raffle draw. They sit back and wait and hope that greatness and wealth falls before them. They desire the prestige and glory that come from success but do not bother to put in any effort. They want the beach body but do not want to go through the sacrifice of strenious exercise and a regimented diet. My pastor say "sacrifice inspires followership".
That said however, the journey to success isn't always a strenuous one. For instance for many months I would walk at least a 1000 steps a day to loose weight, I would skip meals and struggle to stay fit, recently I met a friend who had lost a lot of weight on a diet plan called "keto", where you are encouraged to eat more fatty foods rather than less, and its proven science. While I was starving to loose weight she was eating to achieve the same objective. She took responsibility for her body and then found a way to achieve her goal, almost effortlessly.
In summary make the case for our future outcomes being a factor of our level of responsibility to the future. If you desire to be wealthy in the future, take the time to learn about money, don't pray and wait for it. Make the moves. Use your imagination more often, Imagine a future you desire and then do what I call "making new day resolutions" . make sure everyday brings you closer to the life you desire, whether if be to be fit and healthy at 80 or to be in a committed relashionship at 27. When you accept the responsibility for your destiny it's easier to change it.
You make excuses for the things you choose not to take responsibility for. Change only begins when you acknowledge your power to change
I'll leave you with a quote from Eckhart tolls "most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. And that's a revelation for some people: to realize that your life is only ever now".
Do have an excellent weekend and thanks for reading
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