DSD-034 Control Your Own Future

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This is the 5th habit in the “20 Habits of Success” series

Control Your Own Life

This means you should take responsibility for your own life.

Being personally responsible means not making any excuses.

It wasn’t my fault.

The other guy screwed up.

I didn’t have the right instructions.

Google Maps was wrong.

I once interviewed with a man who wanted to hire me to work for his “company.”

The entire interview he told me about himself, how he built the company, he makes the money, he controls the growth. He also told me he owned a softball team. (Nobody owns a softball team) He just sponsored the team by buying their uniforms for them. 

Needless to say, he was a narcissist and a control freak. To work for him would mean him telling me exactly what to do and I would have to do it.

I turned that job offer down.

Even though I needed a job, I wasn’t going to work for him.

I knew that if everything went well, he’d take the credit. If anything went wrong, he’d blame me for it.

Florence Nightingale said it best…

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave nor took any excuse.”

How many excuses do you make on a daily basis? Count them for one day.

Please understand that no one is asking you to take responsibility for something you didn’t do.

I am telling you to stop making any excuse for not getting ahead in your own life. You are where you are right now because of choices you’ve made.

Let go of the past. You can’t change any of it.

Start today and take responsibility for where you’re headed in the future.

This habit of success is daily taking control of where you are and where you’re going. 

Control your own life. You get to decide what your future is. No excuses.

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