Taking responsibility
It is important to take responsibility for where I am in life. I am exactly where I am because of the actions, beliefs, thoughts and habits that I have had over a long period of time. If I had the actions, thoughts, habits and beliefs of a multi millionaire over the last five years, then I would be a multi millionaire today. It is no one else’s fault. It is not because of circumstances or the weather or thinking ‘if only things had been different’. I am to blame. I should have done things differently.
Here is one little example: Over the course of the last five years, how many hours of TV did I watch? An average of three hours a day? That equates to 21 hours a week. That equates to 1,092 hours a year. That equates to 5,460 hours over the five years. Let’s say I take 8 hours sleep a day (which leaves 16 hours TV watching time), that means I have spent 341 days in the last five years watching TV. That is like locking me up in a room to just watch TV for a whole year. Imagine if I had read business books during that time, or spent that time focusing on my business. I would be a billionaire now!
The great thing about taking responsibility is that it gives me the power to improve and change my situation. If it is my fault that I am where I am, then I can also change where I am. It is going to be difficult and feel like hard work in the beginning. Perhaps I won’t see much progress to start off with. But these things have a way of snow balling out of control (in a positive way) once a critical mass or tipping point has been reached. Focus, dedication and daily steps forward are going to see me through.
A quick word about next steps. I have this vision of earning $5 million a month. But I have to earn my first dollar. So this is how it starts. If I had $75,000 this would allow me to pay off all my debts (and have a little left over for a good night out). So this is the figure I have to focus on before the end of this year. The question I ask myself is how do I earn this amount as soon as possible (while keeping my eyes on the bigger vision)?
