Seven Secrets for Inspired Success
Secret Three

This secret will change your life. I say this because I have used my own life as a proving ground. Changing my thoughts regarding this secret has improved my finances, my health, my relationships, and my joy for living

If you think you dont need to read this article because youve taken complete responsibility for your life, slow down. I have coached doctors, attorneys, business owners, artists and millionaires from all over the world. There wasnt one that didnt need to continue the integration of this secret. I can promise you though, that even beginning degrees of change will free you to the levels of happiness and success that you have always dreamed of.

The third secret is to take responsibility for your life. Understand that you are not a victim any longer. Fear, ego, others, past experiences, circumstances, none of them are in charge. You are! Acting as a victim to finances, relationships, security, or any other outside force causes us to be buffeted around by a whole sea of emotional waves. It gives everything around us responsibility to define our lives. Move that emotional anchor from outside of yourself to your own heart and soul. This is called creating an internal locus of control. I worked with at-risk native teens on the Navajo Reservation. Helping a teen understand that they were in charge of their choices and life or creating an internal locus was a powerful shift. When we take responsibility for our thoughts, our actions and our results, we take responsibility for our lives. This is the only way to create a life of peace, happiness and success. The only way.

This first shift is simply defined as a shift from being a victim to being responsible. Look into your life because victimization is subversive. You are looking for places in your workday, family life, relationships, finances, etc. which frustrate you because they feel out of your control. They wear you out and cause you to feel tired, needy weak and helpless.

Do know that none of these feelings are necessary. They are all a choice. What? you say, I dont choose to be this way. I feel this way because I work with a bunch of monkeys! Silly example but true teaching. Nothing outside you has control over how you perceive any life situation. Its all a matter of your thought processes. If you choose to see anything as being in charge of your life results, you are playing a victim.

You may be wondering if I understand that difficult things happen sometimes. Yes. I understand completely. I have grown through some very significant trauma. These events were where I had the greatest opportunity to practice what I had taught in many seminars. In the midst of these events the only thing I had control over were my thoughts, how I chose to see the events that were happening and my involvement with them. After great soul searching and some help from my mentors, I chose to look only at my own learning, knowing that these events were not inherently bad, their value was in the life experiences that they brought me.

It was gaining this objectivity that released me from the emotional buffeting that I was choosing to engage in. Once I rose above the emotional drama and realized that I could choose, it was magnificent.

This inspirational state finds its foundation in the deceptively simple secret of responsibility.