Life Empowered Experience

It’s not always easy to take responsibility.

But I never promised and never will promise that the journey of self discovery and personal growth will be easy or painless.

But I can promise that it is extremely rewarding.  Kind of like exercise, sometimes it hurts and sometimes it’s not easy to do, but it’s always rewarding and you always feel great about yourself when you do it.

So what does it mean to take responsibility and why is it so necessary and even powerful?

To take responsibility means very simply to look at your life and say, I did this.  I’m at this juncture in my life because of me.

Don’t try to over analyze and segment out what is and isn’t your personal responsibility.  It’s YOUR life isn’t it?  So it’s all your responsibility.

Now here’s why this is so important.

By taking full responsibility for your life right now you are simultaneously empowering yourself with the truth that because you are 100% responsible for your life now, if you choose to make it different you will have 100% control over it changing.

That is powerful!

You lift your mind and thinking out of the mentality of being a victim and empower yourself with the realization that you are only the victim of your own devices.  When you choose you are no longer victim but victor.

I’m not just talking about theory or concept here.  I’m speaking from personal experience.

Back in 2005 when I was fired from my job I chose to think as a victim of the company who fired me.  But looking back I can now see that I created that reality…I am 100% responsible for losing that job!

I can now pinpoint exact moments where I could have done things differently that would have changed my path.

Now, my desire for you is to feel empowered out of this whole taking responsibility thing, not to feel regret.

See, when I look at my past I see what I did to get me here.  But I’m also grateful for the experience…because above all else it’s why I’m writing this today.  Sure I could have gotten here another way, but I love my life and the experiences that have come before now.

Don’t look at your past with regret.

But rather look back and learn.

But you MUST take responsibility.  When you realize you got yourself here, you will be empowered to get yourself ANYWHERE you want to go.  You will realize that YOU hold the key to your life!

Those who deny responsibility and want to blame others are saying essentially that their life is not in their control…they have no control…so how could they possibly ever believe that they can change?

Begin today to change your approach to responsibility by taking time to be personally 100% responsible for your life.  Believe that you hold the power to create the experiences and the life you want, as much as you have the power to create the life you don’t want.  It’s all in what you are focusing on and believing in.  But that’s for another day.

I highly recommend the book “Zero Limits” by Dr. Joe Vitale, my favorite author on the subject of the Law of Attraction and a hero of mine.  You can pick it up at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, etc.

Zero Limits deals with the power of responsibility and tells the true story of an acclaimed Doctor from Hawaii who healed an entire ward of criminally insane patients without ever sitting down and counselling with any of them…it’s an awe inspiring and incredible story.  You can also get the book from Dr. Vitale’s site at www.MrFire.com

Talk to you soon!

Love and Peace,

John Westbrook