Thursday 5 July 2012

A Rock...

…and a Hard Place…our decisions created both. 
For example, you hate your job. But leaving it, right now, is not an option.  These are the facts.  The stories you weave around these facts are just what you use to torment yourself with.  Those stories have everything to do with perpetuating a false sense of helplessness than what the actual facts are.

Let’s face it, the fact that you’re even at the job you hate came about from a decision you made.  The fact that you can’t quit right now is also the result of a decision you’ve made; whatever the reason – you’re just a few years from retirement (in other words, you’ve created the situation in that you have decided that reaching retirement at this particular job is more important than not working for another second at a job that you hate), you’ve accumulated too much debt, you’re living from paycheck to paycheck – it all comes back to decisions you’ve made. 

Let’s be clear, this isn’t about laying blame, we all make the best decisions we know how at the time.  But let’s also be clear that we’re the ones who made the decisions in the first place.

The good news is that taking personal responsibility enables us to make decisions that changes the landscape of our lives so that they more closely resemble the life we really want to live.


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