INSIGHT 1

You Are Accountable for Your Own Success

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You—and only you—have the ultimate power to shape your world and take control of your own success. It’s very easy to make up excuses for why things may not be the way you want them to be. This mindset—the victim mindset—is a self-perpetuating killer of dreams that operates in a vicious circle and downward spiral. A victim mentality occurs when a person feels they are the victim of negative circumstances or the actions of others, and as a result, they develop a negative outlook on life. Because they don’t think anything is their fault, they don’t take any responsibility for what happens to themselves ...

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