It’s only February and you may be struggling to keep making progress on your 2023 goals. What’s happening? What’s getting in the way? The first and most important aspect to check is your own mental approach to owning your success or lack thereof. When you struggle to get the results you want, do you blame the circumstances or someone else for not following through as promised or do you look in the mirror and have a serious talk with yourself about what you’re going to do to get your goals back on track? Successful individuals look in the mirror and take 100% responsibility for their results and success in life. Blaming the circumstances or others may feel good at the time but those behaviors do nothing to put you on the road to success. In addition to taking ownership for your results, being thoughtful about how you respond to circumstances beyond your control will also produce better results. Jack Canfield shares a very powerful formula in his book, The Success Principles. The formula is very simple yet very powerful as it puts you in the best frame of mind for making progress towards the success you seek. The formular is E + R = O. The E is for event, the R is for response and the O is for outcome. We cannot control the events that occur in our lives, but we completely control our responses to the events. If you are not satisfied with the outcome you’re getting, you need to change your response. Changing your response may require getting out of your comfort zone and breaking old habits. We have conditioned responses to certain circumstances and often respond without really thinking through a new and better response to realize a new and better outcome.
The foundation for all success is our ability to take 100% responsibility for our results and to carefully consider our responses to the challenging events that occur. Start taking 100% responsibility for your results and begin realizing the success you desire.
