I talk a lot about responsibility. It’s a recurring theme because it’s absolutely critical to achieving big success, yet so many businesses people that I meet willingly give away responsibility for their future and their lives.
They do it sub-consciously most of the time. It comes out and shows itself though , in how they talk about themselves and their businesses. So many things are someone else’s fault. Let me tell you now, no-one ever got rich blaming someone or something else. Ever!
“There’s still no work. People just aren’t spending money on extensions,” a local builder explained to me as he cried into his pint.
“Businesses in my town won’t spend £99 a month on marketing”, someone else whined to me last week.
With this attitude you can never run a super successful business or be rich. Life will always be hard. That’s big price to pay for absolving yourself of blame.
The truth is that most people blame everyone but themselves.
Blaming someone else- taking responsibility
Blaming others for our problems is an easy trap to fall into. It can feel good to shift the responsibility onto someone else, but it rarely leads to success or happiness. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. No one ever got rich by blaming someone else.
Blaming others is a form of victim mentality that keeps us stuck in a negative mindset. Instead of taking responsibility for our actions and choices, we choose to focus on what others did wrong. This leads to a cycle of blame and excuses that can prevent us from achieving our goals.
To break free from this negative cycle, we need to take responsibility for our actions and choices. We need to recognize that we are in control of our lives and that we have the power to change our circumstances.
