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If you’re still blaming anyone for how your life is, you’re not living in the present and you have zero chance of being happy.
Take responsibility for yourself and your life. You’ll be amazed at how good it feels to accomplish things yourself—to be able to stand tall and say, “Yes, I did that!”
Choosing to ignore reality and stay in pain is not only masochistic, it’s insane, and if you had an ounce of self-respect,
your happiness is your responsibility, and the sooner you accept that fact, the sooner you’ll start making choices that reflect happiness.
What everyone else is doing is not about you, so stop taking everything personally and start looking at situations objectively. Things happen, but you’re only a victim if you decide to be.
You can sit and wait, and wish and hope, that something or someone will change, miraculously transforming your life in the process. Or you can get up off your butt, take responsibility for your own life and start transforming it yourself.
If you haven’t taken the time to think about what your dream life looks and feels like—what it would be like to live it—then you don’t know. You do not have tangible, achievable goals—you have airy-fairy “someday” wishes.
Just because you say you want a big house with a pool and an outdoor kitchen doesn’t mean your inner Belief Monkey is going to go along with you. If your hidden programming tells you that people who live in big houses with pools are bad, greedy, selfish and mean, you won’t be getting the big house anytime soon.
When you’re living on purpose, you don’t have time to waste on things that hold you back. So, whatever you decide to do, do it deliberately and on purpose.
