228: Be Responsible For Yourself In Business

<p>There are billions being spent in the beauty business, the weight loss, fashion and entertainment worlds.  These are the fantasy lands from where we receive our images of success.  By comparison, we are too short, too tall, too skinny, too fat, too poor, too whatever.  Actors, sports stars, captains of industry all seem to be living the dream and we are barely making a living. </p> <p> </p> <p>If only I had been born to wealthier parents, in a better neighbourhood, in a better city, in a better country.  I wish I had a better education or had a better job, better prospects.  I wish I had been dealt a better hand in life.</p> <p> </p> <p>Stop wishing that because you are not going to be dealt a better hand.  You have what you have, you can’t change what has happened in the past, but that doesn’t mean that is all you can ever have.</p> <p> </p> <p> Many have made mistakes, specified poor choices, taken unwise paths, and have hung around with the wrong crowd.  Face it, accept it, stop fighting it - you can’t undo the mistakes of the past.  Stop trying to go backward and use that energy to go forward.  Don’t live in the past.  Look at your strengths, not just your weaknesses.</p> <p> </p> <p>Well this all sounds very fine, dandy and noble but how do we do that?  Well, we have to become our own first responder.  When a catastrophe occurs, the first responders go in and rescue people, they apply life saving procedures and spirit the wounded away from the scene to safety.</p> <p> </p> <p>The white knight, on his white charger is not about to turn up anytime soon and rescue us, so we had better get busy helping ourselves.  We had better come up with our own rescue plan and start to move forward.</p> <p> </p> <p>Before we can make that move though we have to throw off the heavy burdens holding us back.  These are not physical, but mental barriers.  We need to start by freeing ourselves from our past.  Horrible, sad, unfair, gross, ridiculous things happened to us or we had supreme bad luck – it doesn’t matter, we have