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Pillar number 2 of the Prosperity Pillars is the principle that I Take Personal Responsibility. Now that this is a really big one and it's difficult for a lot of people.
Tony Robbins said, “It's in your moments of decision that you shape your destiny.”
Now there's a big difference between creating your life (which was principle number 1) and taking responsibility for your life. There's a huge difference!
Making the decision to Take Responsibility for Your Life Is a Very Empowering Decision…
You may be very proactive with your life, but are you taking responsibility for your life? Because responsibility is not just a success principle. It's also a very empowering concept if you think about it. Creating your life is very proactive thing for you to do, but taking responsibility for your life, and knowing that your life is where it is because of YOUR thoughts goes above and beyond.
One way to start taking responsibility is to STOP focusing on the problem and start focusing on the solution. It's not about where you’ve gotten to in your life. It's where you can go and being empowered by taking responsibility for your life will lead you to have more control over the outcome in yoru life.
When you focus on responsibility and Solutions in your life you will also create more happiness. I mean think about that from a minute!
If you believe that you are responsible for your life, then you can begin to increase your belief and the fact that you CAN Create your Best life (regardless of circumstances). That's so important and huge!
So, Let’s Begin Today to Take More Responsibility
I believe it's important for you to be able to both make a decision AND a commitment to be responsible for situations in your life. You can begin today the decision: I will take personal responsibility for my life, for my actions, for the circumstances in my life.
But I want you to also go a step further and make the commitment to be responsible for your life. A lot of us make decisions but we don't stay committed. Make the decision today AND make the commitment…and I promise you several amazing things are going to happen for you.
I promise you that great leaders are all ones that take responsibility for their actions and for their life.
Power You’ll See with This Commitment
Now…keep this in mind…amazing things will start to happen when you take responsibility for your life. Let me explain…
Stephen Covey with his principles of successful people, has talked about TAKING A MINUTE before reacting after some stimulus (OR EVENT) happens in your life. How you react that split second (after something happens) will be the difference you between the average person and the successful person. So, learn to NOT to be reactive in your life. Learn to be Proactive and Intentional with the way you handle situations that come up!
Take a minute to be responsible for the outcome of every situation.
So, What are Ways To Take Responsibility
The way you can become responsible for your life is be objective. Train yourself to step back and take an objective view of situations that happen in your life. Maybe this situation you’re in is happening for your benefit. Maybe there's a different way to handle or respond to events than what your mind originally could come up with.
Another way you can take personal responsibility is to literally tell yourself, in any situation, that “I take responsibility.” Say it out loud! By simply making that statement, setting that powerful intention, you are creating a more powerful life.
Your Intentions Are Powerful
I want you to know that I believe that your intentions are powerful. And I also believe that you need to give yourself more credit. Sometimes we don't give ourselves enough credit, patience or understanding.
A few mentor of mine have said a couple of different times, “You need to give yourself more credit for your intentions, not just your actions.”
A lot of us judge ourselves, our lives, our jobs, our success by our results. We need to learn that having the “intention of taking personal responsibility”, can be just as powerful in our lives.
These are things that I want you to be able to do. I want you to be able to not only proactively create your life, but also take responsibility for your life. Make the decision. Make the commitment.
Change your perception and you'll begin to see some powerful changes in your life.
How do you start implementing This Principle?
Today I want to give you a strategy to be able to implement this principle into your life.
Maybe it’s at work, or it's at home. Maybe it's with a relationship, just not getting along with someone.
Maybe you're not seeing a result that you want, or you've seen some failures or suffered some setbacks. I want you identify at least one key situation, just find one, and decide how you can Take Responsibility for this Area...regardless of whether you are to blame or the cause of the situation.
Solutions will present themselves. You'll feel more empowered and happier. Identify a situation today that you can take responsibility. Exercise your choice to be responsible.
You have greatness within you. I believe it's never too late for you to begin living the life you were meant to live. So, let’s continue on that path to unleash yoru potential and create your best life.
This is the key I want you to learn and practice this week with Prosperity Pillar #2.
Then, join me tomorrow and we will cover Pillar #3 I Act in Spite of My Mood.
Thanks for listening…
George Wright III
Today's is going to be the 1st of a 12-week series on the Prosperity Pillars. These are the 12 Principles for Success that I created from my experience with different thought leaders, experts, and individuals in the field of personal development and financial education.
My goal with this particular series is to help create a foundation for you in your life, and when applied, will support you in all your endeavors. Jim Rohn, one of the fathers of personal development and one of my mentors, said “We all have two choices. We can make a living, or we can design a life."
We Can Make a Living or Design Our Lives
How powerful is that? I'll repeat it. We all have two choices. We can make a living, or we can design of life.
How many of us are just going through life on a day-to-day basis, living our life, making a living, doing all these things... without consciously designing or creating your life? That's why I've created Principle number 1: I Create My Life.
Which one are you doing? Think about that for a minute. Are you just making a living, getting by? Or are you designing and creating the life that you were meant to live? Because, let's be honest, your focus will determine the results that you're going to get.
Are You Consciously Creating Your Life?
Do you ever wake up after weeks and weeks of work and just think, "Man, where did the time go by?"
The principle around success that is one of the most recognized throughout time is the principal (or let's call it the Secret) that my partner Robert talks about a lot…
Your thoughts create your life.
And if your thoughts create your life, you have to be asking yourself how you are consciously you're directing those thoughts.
If you're consciously designing a life, then you'll have thoughts that take you towards creating your life.
You have to remember that your thoughts will create feelings. Your feelings will result in your actions. Those actions create experiences which will reinforce beliefs that you have in your life.
So, you have to be conscious of your thoughts every single day.
Every. Single. Day. Create your life now…Don’t Wait!
CAUTION: Make no mistake, whether you're consciously creating your life or you're just living your life, something's being created.
I prefer to have a conscious effort creating my life and I think you do too.
Here are some Steps For “Creating Your Life”
1-First of all, you have to believe you can do it. Now a mentor of mine, Les Brown, says, "Greatness is within you." Every one of us has the power and the greatness inside of us to create the life that we were meant to live. We have the ability to do this. You have to BELIEVE that.
If you have trouble with that belief right now, you can do a lot of different things to change that. We'll talk about those in a minute. But first and foremost, you have to believe that you can do it.
2-Second, you have to create daily activities which will empower you towards designing and creating your life. For example:
These will all ultimately help you create daily habits for success. This will help you to be able to create the life you're meant to live.
Remember, energy is key. You have to be able to create some energy TOO. You can do that through physical exercise and creating a state of mental awareness that will give you the energy you need.
So once again ... first you have to believe you can do it, and second you have to create daily activities that will help you design your life.
Affirmations are a Success Practice
One of the things you could do daily, for example, is to repeat daily affirmations.
One of the reasons I have the prosperity pillars poster is that you can repeat time and time again these affirmations for success.
Go ahead and say today Principle to yourself ... just say it out loud, "I create my life. I create my life!" It's empowering to be able to make these statements, these affirmations, these powerful statements. Let your mind soak them in and begin to start focusing on what's really important.
Set Some Goals
I'd like you to set some goals. Because here's the thing ... if you don't have goals of where you'd like your life to be…then chances are you’re not going to end up where you want it to be?
As you grow up people ask you “what you want to be when you grow up.”
Then as you go through school, you ask yourself, "What so I want to do? What major do I need to have what kind of job I want?"
I really think all of this line of questioning is wrong…!!
Robert Stuberg, a long time ago, told me, "It's about your thoughts as much as the quality of the questions you ask yourself that create your thoughts." So don't ask yourself what you'd like to do or what your goals are. A better question is to Ask yourself what you want your life to be like?
What do you want your life to be like? If you're going to start creating a life and design in a life don't begin with what you want to do for a living, or what you want to have for material things, or for relationships. Ask yourself what you want your life to be like.
I personally believe that if you were to consciously create memories on-going, then you're going to be creating a life of fulfillment, happiness, and success.
In Closing…
I'd like to leave you with a particular strategy for you to try today.
I want you to think back about some of the things that made you the happiest and the most fulfilled. Consciously set a goal for yourself to create a new memory. Create a memory that you feel like you can put inside you, in a repertoire of memories that you've had throughout your life. Use that as a way to motivate yourself to consciously create your life.
I really believe that if you'll do this, if you make the effort to create your life, you'll be far more successful you'll ever be. Far happier and you'll be more fulfilled as well.
I believe it's never too late for you to begin living the life you were meant to live.
I want to talk to you today a little more about the Law of Vibration, which is the first of two laws connected with the Law of Attraction. Now remember, I am no expert here, but I’ve learned a few things from some pretty big thought leaders, so I’m going to share with you what I’ve learned and seen happen in my own life.
The Law of Vibration (simply put) states that everything in the universe is made up of energy and that energy is constantly moving and vibrating and being attracted to similar energy levels. So, if you want to attract a certain kind of energy you need to create a life that resonates at the same frequency. Remember….this is science based and also common sense to a degree.
We know that when your day goes bad it usually gets worse (if you let it). We know that “birds of a feather, flock together”. We know that positive people will be around positive people. Get the idea?
This law is like the law of gravity. It is governed by universal principles. It exists whether you believe it or not and whether you can see it or not. Because you are part of the Mastermind Community, I know you are already bought into the idea that We Create Our Lives. Our lives are a direct reflection of our minds, our programming, and our VIBRATION/FREQUENCY. In order to create the life you’d like, you must condition your mind to have thoughts in alignment with your objective.
BUT…you must also raise the frequency and vibration in your life to resonate with your Ultimate Life as well. You cannot hang around negative people and expect to create positivity and abundance in your life. You cannot say one thing and then do something else and expect things to go your way.
So how do you Raise your Vibration?
There are a couple ways I’ve found to raise my own vibration that I want to share with you. Then, I’ll take you through a few steps and exercises so grab a pen and paper.
First, you can consciously program your mind and your life to move to a higher frequency or vibration. You do this through your daily rituals and practices. Meditation, Affirmations, Reading, and Visualization are all examples of this. Most of you have experienced a time when you were looking to buy a specific item like a car and so you did some research on the item. Then, before you knew it, you were seeing that car or item everywhere.
This is because when you program your thoughts, your RAS (reticular activating system) in your brain kicks in. You’ve basically programmed your brain to sort through your 100,000 thoughts per day and find and attract to you what you are looking for.
Second, you can definitely raise your vibration in your life by learning to create the right emotions. Now most of us feel that emotions are some type of involuntary burden we have. Events in our lives create positive or negative emotions. And this might be true for most people, but not you.
We talk all the time about being proactive and not reactive. Rather than acting to experiences in your life to create emotions, you need to learn to be proactive in creating “the right” emotions to bring you into (what Tony Robbins says is) an Ideal State. A state that places you in the right vibration that is in alignment with your goals and the emotions you want in your life.
Example…close your eyes and think back to one of the happiest memories in your life. Maybe it was a family event like a marriage, birth of a child, or being with your parents. Maybe it was a time you received an amazing recognition for an achievement. Sit in that moment and recall the vivid details of that moment and you will begin to feel the emotions of that moment. That is because our brain embeds and registers memories in this way. The bottom line is that we can create the emotions we want at any time in our lives. We do not need to wait for something or some event to happen in our lives.
Like my partner Robert Stuberg always says, we are ultimately looking to create emotions in our lives and I’ve just shared with you a very simple way to do just that. Best of all, when you create the right emotions in your life, you will ATTRACT the same type of emotions.
And most importantly…
When you create and add emotions to the thoughts you have for your Ultimate Life, you truly resonate and attract the things you want because you are deeply connected to those thoughts and ideas.
I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this, but let me suggest a few amazing thought leaders on this topic you can research and then give you some steps and exercises you can do. Bob Proctor, John Assarah, and Joe Vitale are all individuals that I have learned from on this topic and would be great sources for you to learn from as well. Noah St. John is also a guest I’ve had on the podcast so you can go back and reference that episode for great content.
So, now let me list for you a few key steps I feel will help you with implementing the Law of Vibration into your life.
Important Steps to Create the Right Vibration:
Once you’ve done these steps, I have listed out a few exercises and ideas you can implement to start practicing and raising the vibration in your life. Maybe you’ve already been doing many of these, but try to do them with real intention on raising your vibration level.
Exercises You Can Do
These are just a few examples and there are many other ideas you can try, but you get the idea. Ultimately I hope today’s message is something you will sit back, be thoughtful about, and really try to implement in your life. I truly believe that if you will start to apply Prosperity Principle #11 I Attract Success and live the Law of Vibration, you will see massive increases in your Prosperity and Happiness.
Now, I’d like to ask you for a favor. Please share this with at least one friend. I know there are people that need to hear this message and I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to listen. See you tomorrow.
George Wright III
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