30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

Time to take action!
Ask yourself the following questions:
In what areas are you lacking self-discipline at the moment? Be
completely honest.
What benefits will you obtain if you had more self-discipline?
What will be your first step toward reaching your goal?
Write down your plan of action in small steps. Give yourself
deadlines.
How will you know you’ve reached your goal of having more self-
discipline in _______?

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Take full responsibility for your life
Peak performance begins with your taking
complete responsibility for your life and
everything that happens to you.
—BRIAN TRACY
Most people do not really want freedom,
because freedom involves responsibility, and
most people are frightened of responsibility.
—SIGMUND FREUD
There is only one person that’s responsible for your life and that is
YOU! Not your boss, not your spouse, not your parents, not your
friends, not your clients, not the economy, not the weather. YOU!
The day we stop blaming others for everything that happens in our
life, everything changes! Taking responsibility for your life is taking
charge of your life and becoming the protagonist of it. Instead of
being a victim of circumstances, you obtain the power to create your
own circumstances or at least the power to decide how you are
going to act in the face of circumstances that life presents to you. It
doesn’t matter what happens to you in your life; it matters what
attitude you adopt. And the attitude you adopt is your choice!
If you blame your life situation on others, what has to happen to
make your life better? All of the others have to change! And that, my
friend, I tell you, is not going to happen. If you are the protagonist,
YOU have the power to change the things that you don’t like in your
life! You are in control of your thoughts, actions and feelings. You are
in control of your words, the series you watch on TV, and the people

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you spend your time with. If you don’t like your results, change your
input—your thoughts, emotions and expectations. Stop reacting to
others and start responding. Reaction is automatic. Responding is
consciously choosing your response.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame
—ERICA JONG
The victim says: Every bad thing in my life is others’ fault, but