| Has anyone ever told you that you are responsible for | | | | points you in the appropriate direction is what being |
| everything in your life? I'll bet not, and what's more you | | | | responsible is all about. There are no 'wrong' choices, |
| probably don't believe that statement. We are born as | | | | only ones that will lift you, move you forward, or ones |
| tiny beings that need nurturing in many ways and | | | | that pull you down and stop you. Making a choice that |
| taken care of as we grow through childhood. When | | | | not only is perfect for you, but everyone concerned |
| we reach the teenage years, it becomes apparent to | | | | takes personal responsibility. |
| most of us that we can take care of ourselves in | | | | In a society where the media creates victims and fear, |
| many ways quite satisfactorily, and don't need to be | | | | you may find it difficult to embrace personal |
| saved by our parents. Still, the laws keep us tied to our | | | | responsibility. There are really no victims, only people |
| caretakers, be it our parents or someone else. If you | | | | who have made choices that don't serve them. Now I |
| are reading this in a country other than the United | | | | know that most of you reading this will disagree, but |
| States, the preceding description may be quite | | | | given enough writing space, I could show you what I |
| different. | | | | mean. I have a whole chapter in my ebook on |
| During our growth stages from childhood to adulthood, | | | | personal responsibility, and even that isn't enough to |
| we learn that there are all sorts of agencies, | | | | prove to you that there are no victims, but stay with |
| organizations, governments, and groups that are | | | | me on this. |
| designed to take care of us in some way. If we | | | | If everything is about choices, and you have many at |
| choose to use these agencies we release | | | | any time, then making a personally responsible choice |
| responsibility for taking care of ourselves to some | | | | keeps you from becoming a victim. Now it may seem |
| extent. The thought might be that you have a | | | | that you are a victim, and I go there at times myself, |
| safety-net should things not work out as you planned. | | | | but if you really thought about what occurred and why |
| What happens in this scenario is you relinquish your | | | | it happened, you most likely would see your part of the |
| power to take responsibility for your life to someone | | | | effect or consequence. Granted discovering the |
| else. This may be necessary in some areas and | | | | personal responsibility part of any situation may take |
| circumstances temporarily, but do you really want it | | | | awhile even if you are willing to move through the |
| permanently? | | | | process. |
| It is enough that you are told what to do and how to | | | | The last thing I want to say here about our being |
| do it from childhood fueled by societal beliefs. But | | | | responsible for our lives is that the reason for it hinges |
| when you give the steering wheel, the rudder of your | | | | on the idea that we create every moment of our lives. |
| life to someone else, you lose control of what you are | | | | If you are constantly creating your life, then who else is |
| doing and where you are going. The truth is that while | | | | responsible for it? Of course, the statement that you |
| you may have given control of your physical reality to | | | | are creating your life may seem absurd to many of |
| the government, the one aspect you are always in | | | | you, but it is true. You can prove it to yourself, if you |
| control of is your mind. And since, ultimately, your mind | | | | are willing, by paying attention to what happens and |
| is what controls everything anyway, in a sense, you | | | | why in any given day. |
| have relinquished nothing. | | | | In some situations it is easy to see that you are |
| You are the commander, the captain, the pilot of your | | | | creating what is happening and therefore responsible |
| life from the start. Through a law of quantum physics, | | | | for it. But in others, it is much more difficult to see. For |
| the Law of Attraction, we attract the same vibrations | | | | example, you are walking across your yard to get the |
| that we create through our thoughts, words, and | | | | mail and something falls out of the sky and hits your |
| actions. For example, if you get up in a happy, joyful | | | | head knocking you unconscious. Who is responsible? Is |
| mood and maintain that higher vibration throughout the | | | | it the originator of the object that hit you? So it would |
| day, you will resonate with similar vibrations to some | | | | seem. Is it the objects fault? Of course not. But let's |
| degree and maintain that high vibration. If you get out | | | | get clear here. Who decided to walk outside and get |
| of bed in a miserable mood, you will likewise resonate | | | | the mail? While at a conscious level you could not |
| with like vibrations and have a crappy day. | | | | have known about the falling object, you still made a |
| Due to your creation of the vibrations that are radiated | | | | choice to walk outside at that exact moment. You had |
| from your body during your day, you are, in effect, | | | | an infinite number of choices, remember? But you |
| creating your life moment by moment. Now this whole | | | | picked one. While the preceding was an extreme |
| scenario is much more complex than I have described | | | | example, it still illustrates the point as unbelievable as it |
| here, I just wanted to give a sense of what being the | | | | may seem. |
| creator of your life looks like energetically. If you can | | | | The above just illustrates that there are forces at |
| get past the disbelief many of you reading this may | | | | work in our lives of which we are not consciously |
| have about what I just described, you can begin to | | | | aware. But we can become more aware by opening |
| understand what I mean by being responsible for your | | | | to the possibilities that surround us. When you take |
| life's creation. | | | | responsibility for every thought, word, and action in you |
| Life is about choices, and in any given moment there | | | | life, I guarantee your life will change over time, from |
| are infinite choices. We may not be aware of the | | | | one of stress to one of peace. That is the way the |
| many choices we have for the situation we need to | | | | Universe created you and the world in which you live. |
| make a choice about, but they are there. Usually you | | | | Take note of this idea for the next week and see |
| make a choice based on past programming or beliefs | | | | what happens. |
| that you hold. Making the choice that supports you and | | | | |