Here’s the thing about life – and it’s a very important thing:
You only ever have two choices. You can either choose to be a victim, or you can take full responsibility for your life.
You can’t control other people – you can only control how you respond to other people.
So when you get frustrated by someone else’s actions or words, you’re choosing to be a victim—a victim of behaviours you don’t like.
But you ALWAYS have a choice.
A choice to engage or not, to react or not, to allow yourself to feel frustrated, annoyed, or irritated—or not. When you take 100% responsibility for your life, you’re less affected by what others do. You stay in control of YOU.
You detach emotionally from things that would have once pulled you down.
Go back and read this again.
YOU get to choose how you experience life. Except it’s not that easy is it?
I used to be so impatient – in fact I once bough a book that was called (wait for it…) ‘Is it just me or is everything sh*t’ – yes seriously. That’s who I used to be.
A victim of life.
Along with that victim mentality came an income capped at 6-figures, unfulfilling relationships, a lack mentality around money, frustrations over the things other people did or said, waking up everyday to feelings of stress and overwhelm, a default dominant emotion of feeling fed-up, and one and on it goes.
So what do you choose?
Are you ready to take responsibility and lead your life from a place of personal power? Because when I made that choice, my life escalated beyond anything I ever could have hoped for – 7-figure income, a life of freedom and choice.
Is it your turn?