Own It....100% of It

Own It...100% of It

Want to know the key turning point in my life?  It was the moment that I decided that I would own it.  Own what?  Own my life.

Own everything that happened to me.

Own my choices.

Own my life.

Well that is kind of silly isn't it you may say?  Don't we all own our life? 

Yes we do, but many of us are hypnotized to think that other things are responsible for whether or not they succeed or fail, whether or not they are happy or dissatisfied, whether or not they get what they want or they don't.

You see my life, my attitude, and my happiness, completely changed when I rejected that belief.  When I accepted 100% responsibility for myself and my life, for my goals and my business, for what I wanted to do and who I wanted to be.

What does owning it mean?

It means that you aren't allowed to blame anyone or anything if life doesn't go the way that you want it to, if you don't get what you want exactly when you want it.  You are responsible for everything that happens to you, so if you don't get what you want when you want it then YOU need to change.  You can't worry about, or blame, anyone or anything else.

It means that you can't complain.  Complaining does absolutely nothing to move you forward to what you want.  If you complain then you aren't owning it.  You are suggesting that there is a factor outside of your control that determines your fate.  If you own it then you believe that fate is in your hands, you control what you will be and what you will do.

It means that if your business isn't going exactly the way you want then you absolutely cannot point to the economy, the government, the customers - see that is blaming.  There are many examples, too many to list, of companies that were STARTED in an economic depression. 

We got into direct sales in the fall of 2009, right in the middle of an economic collapse!  Look at where we are now!

Do not let the TV or the talking heads tell you what you can or cannot do, what is safe or risky.  They are sitting in a studio!  Most of them have never even had a business!  What do they know.  Don't let a politician tell you what your fate is.  You determine your fate.  No one else.  Don't trust that anyone has your best interest in mind. 

You have to own it!  You have to do it yourself. 

There will be many people who will say, "well objectively that isn't true, people are born with disadvantages, you don't do everything yourself".

But yet there are many people, too many to mention, who are born with disadvantages who own their life and then do tremendous things.  They are able to rise above because they refuse to play victim.  They refuse to sit back and act like someone owes them something because of where they were born. They own it.

I want to own it.  I will live with that belief.  I will take full responsibility.  It is the most empowering mental state that I have ever encountered.  When I own it I feel like fate is in my power. This gives me hope, this gives me motivation.  When I play victim I get discouraged because then I believe that "I am powerless to change it anyway".  So I choose to own it instead.  

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