28/12/2016
Have you ever blamed someone else for something that’s happening to you?
Most of us blame others for where we are right now. You might have noticed that as soon as you stop blaming other people and take responsibility for your own circumstances, life starts changing.
Blaming others and not accepting responsibility for our own circumstances is a very interesting characteristic, and recognizing it is a great first step to alter our behavior.
As soon as you STOP blaming others, and begin taking responsibility for your own actions, you will quickly begin to recognize how life starts changing.
As you think about your own life now, do you blame your financial situation, your marital or relationship status, your health issues, or your social life on someone else? Often this is an automatic response and we don’t even fully recognize we are doing it.
Accepting responsibility for our actions is the ability to respond to our sensory data.
Take health and weight loss for example. Your body may be screaming “I am unhealthy,” or “I need to exercise.” Often, however, instead of listening and acting on this, we generate excuses such as “my parents always let me eat junk food, so now I have bad habits,” or “I’m too sore to exercise today because my boss made me work overtime.” We tend to blame someone else – “It’s their fault, they did this to me.”
So now we think, why should I take responsibility for someone else, and why do I need to fix this problem if it wasn't my fault, it was their doing, not mine. So we are stuck in this endless loop, where we take no action.
It is, however, entirely possible to turn this around, simply by removing blame and taking responsibility.
It is then we notice change and we are able to have control over situations and life circumstances.
Try it out, thinking of something you blame someone else for, drop that thinking and see how good it feels to see yourself move forward.
Who knows, maybe a New Year’s resolution to help you achieve your goals with a simple drop of thought?