Taking Responsibility - Your Choice!

If you sit down to read The Secret, the ultimate message is this: that you are responsible for designing your own life. From every choice you make - because everything you do, or do not do, is in itself the result of a choice.

Think about it. Whether to do that overdue task now, or leave it to Saturday morning, is a choice. And you will feel the impact - good or bad - at some point. The same goes with whether you further your studies, take that job. Or eat that doughnut. It's all about choice.

As my friend Jackey Backman puts it:

I create my own reality.

This statement, foundation of Jackey's personal development programme (9 Principles of Personal Power), is powerfully true and underlies every single self-development programme I've looked at.

Recognising it makes me able to take responsibility for my day - my mindset - from the moment I open my eyes: "How do I want to feel today? What do I want to experience? What do I want to receive?"

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