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Looking For A Guru To Help Change Your Life? Get A Mirror Instead.
No one is coming to rescue you, but you.
If you think the world, politicians, political party in power, governments, circumstances, job market, luck, or other people in your life, are responsible for where you are in life you have given up control of your life to them. You are blaming someone or something else for where you are, or where you are not.
Ask any self-help, productivity mentor, or coach and they’ll tell you the same.
Abdicating your responsibility can be comforting. It takes away the responsibility for any decisions you made, or didn’t make. For instance, not getting ahead wasn’t caused by you sitting on your behind relaxing, instead of doing the hard thing like working and grinding it out.
Victims blame, this was done to them. Life isn’t fair.
Playing victim displays lack of clarity, for the hard work needed to progress. Let me ask you a question, what professional victim do you know that has achieved a high level of success? If you know of one, tell me, because I don’t. So as a rule of thumb, we can state, victims don’t succeed. Playing a victim is counterproductive to success.
The next question, how much of your life are you responsible for? That’s an easy answer…
