When you accept complete responsibility for your life, you begin to view yourself as self-employed, no matter who signs your paycheck. You see yourself as the president of your own personal service corporation. You see yourself as an entrepreneur heading up a company with one employee — yourself. You see yourself as responsible for selling one product — your personal services — into a competitive marketplace. You see yourself as completely responsible for every element of your work, for production, quality control, training and development, communications, strategy, productivity improvement, and finances.
You refuse to make excuses. Instead, you make progress.
Your personal company, or any company, can increase its bottom-line profits in one or more of three ways.
First, the company can increase its sales and revenues, holding costs constant.
Second, the company can decrease its costs, holding sales and revenues constant.
Or
Third, the company can do something else altogether where one or both of the first two are possible.
As the president of your own company, these are your three options as well.
Identify the things that you can do that are more valuable and important than all the others. You then discipline yourself to focus all of your energy and attention on those specific tasks. You just say “No!” to any activity or demand on your time that is not consistent with the most valuable work you can possibly be doing at that moment. You are responsible.
Whatever You Concentrate On, Grows in Your Life
Life is the study of attention.
Where your attention goes, your heart goes also.
Your ability to direct your attention away from activities of lower value to activities of higher value is central to everything you accomplish in life.