I love the story about the man who told his son, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, discontented one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate, happy and contented one.”
The son asked, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?” His father answered: “The one I feed.”
In the case of the father’s story, it is a matter of choice whether he feeds the loving, compassionate, happy and contented wolf while starving the vengeful, angry, discontented one.
This makes complete sense, right?
Why does it seem so easy to fall into the trap of following in the footsteps of the bad wolf?
I think it is because we often don’t fully accept responsibility for our lives. It’s easier to blame what happens to us on someone else. It is easier to adopt a victim status.
Like which wolf you feed, your future is predicated on what you feed your mind. What you feed it will result in what kind of future you experience. It comes down to personal responsibility and choices.
You have choices in your life. Choice and not chance is what will govern you.
The key lies in acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life. Choices about how you feel or think or what direction your life takes.
So, stop waiting for others to motivate you; you are your best inspiration.
Take a regular inventory of your strengths, abilities, talents, virtues, and positive points, and start a daily regimen of self-talk and brain scripting to enhance your personal development and growth.
Letting go of blame and anger toward those in your past who did the best they could, given the limitations of their knowledge, background and awareness of what life had to offer them.
I believe most people want more out of life than they are currently experiencing. The fact is that few individuals understand how to get whatever more it might be that they want to be, do or own. Many don’t believe that they can, because they are unaware of their personal power in the form of billions of brain cells or more correctly, neurons and how those brain cells operate and can be controlled.
So, while programming your brain properly is essential, how you programme or script it is more important. That’s why accepting responsibility is critical.
Most people choose to form their individually held “perceptions and beliefs” about what’s possible for them based on what’s unfolding in the world around them. In other words, it is based on the “Reality” thinking of the majority and not “Perception” thinking or possibility thinking of the achiever.
Perception thinking and responsibility go hand-in-hand because they are based on the premise that each person is responsible for their future.
The perception thinker believes that nothing is going to happen unless they discover purpose in their life. The next step is to ask yourself why I want that and how I will achieve it.
Finally, responsibility is taking ownership of your life and what you want to happen, not what you let happen to you. Make a decision now to take ownership of your life.
