There are certainly plenty of events and happenings during your life that you cannot control; where fate takes over or bad luck or good luck or mixed luck comes in. Where you happen to be in the right place at the right or wrong time, where nothing you could have done would have changed the outcome. And yet, if we are really honest, there are probably fewer of those times that exist than we would like to admit. Because admitting that we had some control over the outcome means taking responsibility for our actions, and that's not always easy to do.
Being responsible and admitting our role in events is not only the right thing to do, it's the freeing thing to do. Because assessing our role and taking responsibility for what we did or didn't do, allows us to think differently and act differently over time. Our culpability allows us to see what we did and how we can change our mindset or our actions in the future. It allows us to be more compassionate, more understanding, and more attuned to those around us. It allows us to step outside of ourselves and step into the shoes of another, in an attempt to have a different viewpoint, in an attempt to grow and learn.
So the next time you are tempted to blame your circumstances on outside forces, maybe stop and reassess. Take a look at your actions, take a look at your words. Take a look at what you did to bring yourself to that place. And maybe the answer is you did nothing and maybe the answer is that it was indeed a twist of fate, but maybe your role in creating is more that you'd like to admit. And in making that admission, you allow yourself the ability to move to the next place in your journey, and that responsibility allows you to be more than and better than you were before.
Lesson leaned.
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Being responsible and admitting our role in events is not only the right thing to do, it's the freeing thing to do. Because assessing our role and taking responsibility for what we did or didn't do, allows us to think differently and act differently over time. Our culpability allows us to see what we did and how we can change our mindset or our actions in the future. It allows us to be more compassionate, more understanding, and more attuned to those around us. It allows us to step outside of ourselves and step into the shoes of another, in an attempt to have a different viewpoint, in an attempt to grow and learn.
So the next time you are tempted to blame your circumstances on outside forces, maybe stop and reassess. Take a look at your actions, take a look at your words. Take a look at what you did to bring yourself to that place. And maybe the answer is you did nothing and maybe the answer is that it was indeed a twist of fate, but maybe your role in creating is more that you'd like to admit. And in making that admission, you allow yourself the ability to move to the next place in your journey, and that responsibility allows you to be more than and better than you were before.
Lesson leaned.
-a
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