Choice gives you power. Once you recognize that you get to choose everything about your future, you will gain enormous power over your life. But too many people will never take that step – never acknowledge that they are the architects of their life and their business. It’s much too easy to just blame someone or something else for their apparent inability to become a success.
Successful people aren’t that way by accident. They didn’t just happen to fall into it. They chose it. Strategically.
If you knew, truly knew, that the only thing standing between you and that audacious dream of yours was your willingness to choose, you would stop all the complaining and sobbing and hanging on to your story about why it’s all just so difficult, and you’d get on with the business of being successful.
Successful people are not the ones telling you how hard it is, are they?
The ones telling you it can’t be done are those who aren’t doing it. They are attached to their identity as a person who struggles, who carries on in the face of insurmountable odds, who take on too much and crumple under the pressure because they are addicted to the attention they get for the struggle.
You can choose today, right now, to let all that go.
You can choose to stop seeking credit for all you’ve been through and start seeking the personal satisfaction that only comes with accomplishment.
You can choose to stop wallowing in your need to be validated for your suffering.
You can choose to release your white-knuckled grip on your need for sympathy and validation from others and start doing the things successful people do.
They choose a goal (how much, by when).
They determine what it will take to reach that goal.
Then they go do that.
They do not wait for permission.
They do not look for affirmation from others.
They don’t waste their time allowing drama to infect their life.
And they do not seek credit for trying.
You can be enormously, abundantly successful or you can be a martyr but you can’t do both. Choose wisely.
Be bold!
Ann Vertel
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