“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
100% Responsibility
Early in a new year, I remind myself of some helpful principles I may have strayed from over the prior year. One principle that is very important for anyone that takes lots of action to achieve whatever he or she sees as success is to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in your life.
Event + Response = Outcome
It is the first success principle in Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles book, which I have re-read a few times because it is filled with great advice on taking charge of your life. Coupled with this principle is this little formula: Event + Response = Outcome. You will...