Taking Responsibility for Your Choices

Your life is made up of the results from the choices you made – or didn’t make. Unless you are a child, your life is fully your responsibility. No one else is responsible for your life; you must make your own choices and only you can live out those choices. If something happens in your immediate external environment, you can choose to view in one of two ways: you can either see it as something that has happened to you or you can see it as something that has happened for you. The amount of work is the same. As the Greek philosopher Epictetus once said, ruin and recovery are from the same place. This determines your view and vision of the world. If you believe the circumstances that show up in your life are things done to you, then you operate out of a victim consciousness. You view the world as distant and separate from yourself and you are powerless to influence it. You believe you have no control over anything that happens in your immediate environment. This mindset will continue to keep you stuck and in victim mode. From this mindset, you can never gain clarity and come to the full conscious awareness of your innate power.

Recognizing that life happens for you, that your external circumstances are the result of your conscious or unconscious choices, you live from a place of total acceptance and operate from your innate power. Knowing you are responsible for your circumstances, that you somehow attracted them into your life, is removing the blame, stepping into your power and out of victim mode. You know you are powerful and have total control over your life story. You come to a fuller clarity and conscious awareness that you have the power to make the choices that will lead to results you wish to see in your life.

The first step to conscious awareness is taking full and complete responsibility for your choices – be it consciously made or unconsciously made. No matter whether you intend to or not, the results still manifest. In the consciousness of full awareness, you recognize that you are the architect of your life story. Only you have the power to exact the conscious and deliberate choices over your life to create the life you truly desire. This is no one else’s responsibility – only yours. From this place of conscious awareness, you are unbelievably powerful; you have the ability to access the divine creative power you were born with. This had never left you; you merely forgot it and thus disconnected from it. In full conscious awareness, you return to your divine state and you re-member your creative power and abilities.

“Life does not happen to you, it happens for you.” ~ Byron Katie

“Ruin and recovery are from the same place.” ~ Epictetus

Self-Assessment Reflection Questions:

1. “Where in my life am I not taking full responsibility?

2. “How does this affect my life story?”

3. “What is one small action I can take right now to change this?”