How You Got Where You Are

WHO'S RUNNING YOUR LIFE

   People never really stop and think about how powerful their own decisions
and agreements are. We listen to the news and read the papers or read on the Internet how bad it all is. How the economy is in the tank and it's all gloom and doom and we just buy into it. We give our tacit consent and agreement to what we see or hear and then for us it is so.

   I guess it's easier to swim with the current than to swim against it. But
here's the thing: if you find yourself in a place that you don't want to be
and you can't figure out how you got there, then take a good look at what
you have agreed to. You are the most powerful influence in your own life.

   If you find yourself in a bad way economically or let's say in a bad
relationship or job, don't look outside yourself for the cause of that. Look
at yourself and what you have decided or agreed with.

   Now I know this is a tough pill to swallow. It's much easier to just point
the finger at the other guy. It is so much more convenient to let yourself
off the hook by deciding it's your wife or husband's fault or your boss or
your next door neighbor or the guy who cut you off on the freeway or your
dog that did this to you.
But the cold hard truth of it is, it's all on you... Yes, You !

   Now once you get past that idea and see the truth in it... and that could
take a while... you're on the road to taking control of your own life.
Believe me, that's the most exhilarating feeling there is. It makes you kind
of bullet-proof because then NO ONE can dictate how and where your life
goes. That is true freedom !