Where are you going today?
How are you going to get there?
Do you know that where you are going is completely up to you?
Speaking of where you are, how did you get there?
Did you have a plan, a road-map, or are you where you are today by happenstance? Did you just wake up with no real idea of how you got here?
Whether you know it or not: your freedom of choice has brought you to be where you are.
You have the freedom of choice and because you have chosen each and every circumstance of your life: your success and failure is completely within your grasp, your happiness and unhappiness, your present and future.
Everything that exists in your life exists because of you, because of your behavior, words and actions.
Here are a few examples of that:
1. Kate, a young woman from Russia. Six years ago Kate emigrated to this country. Completely unable to speak the English language, she now has a better command of the language than people who grew up here. This spring, she is starting college to get her degree in Accounting.
2. Aloha, a young woman in Florida, who is working as a waitress at a Waffle House. Aloha dropped out of high school because she had gotten pregnant. Now, with 2 small children, she hopes to someday get her GED and grow a better life for herself and her children.
3. Susan, a middle aged woman who did finish high school, but soon afterward had two children. Working smart and planning her trip, she retired from a career that culminated in an upper-level management position with a major national corporation.
Over 400 years before Christ, Socrates came up with what are known as basic laws of human life. One of them is called the Law of Cause and Effect. What that means is that for every effect in your life, there is a cause.
Let me explain: if you want a certain effect (end result), then you have to take certain steps (causes) to get that effect.
In our examples above, you see that each of the three women showed responsibility for their lives in different ways: Kate has a plan to make a new life for herself here in the States. Aloha has no real defined idea of where her life is, or is going, and Susan knew what it took to get where she wanted to go and followed that plan. She also has a plan for even greater success and achievement for the rest of her life.
Responsibility is the basic necessity to having the life you want and deserve.
When you accept that you are completely responsible for yourself and also that no one is coming to your rescue is the beginning of your road to success.
After you accept that, there is very little that you cannot do or have. “If it’s to be, it’s up to me!”
Success, achievement, motivation all come from your responsibility to yourself. Happiness and self-actualization are the end result from your responsible choices and planning.
Responsibility: It’s the absolute minimum requirement for everything you could ever really want in life.
What is your plan?
Goals, a bucket list, a place where you want to be in your life? You deserve a wonderful life, what are you doing to grow the life you deserve?
Think about it and tell me what you are doing to grow your life into the one you want and deserve?

