Lolly Daskal

No More Excuses

How many times have you said?

“It is too much of a risk!”
“I can’t afford it.”
“I am too scared to try.”
or, my favorite, “I’m born this way, there is nothing I can do to change it. “

Instead of accepting and taking responsibility, we make excuses for the reasons we don’t succeed or why we aren’t able to accomplish what we want out of life.

How can we stop this cycle?
How can we grow?
How can we live the life we want, one worthy the effort and make us feel free?

When we develop accountability, when we take charge and accept the choices we’ve made – learn and grow from them – and then, only then can we be more in charge of our lives.

Accountability, requires us to be willing to take responsibility for our actions and be in charge of the choices we’ve made. Accept that the choices made, determines everything along the way and is the consequence of what has happened in our lives, for good and bad.

Think about it.  The minute we do something wrong we want to blame others
We point fingers
We make excuses.

It is important to acknowledge and take responsibly for your decisions and actions.

If you make mistakes – be responsible, accept it, correct it, and offer amends, don’t make excuses.

Life is a matter of choices.
Every choice you make – makes you

Whom you marry…

What your career you have…

Where you live…

What you will do today…

One of the most important choice in your life is who you’ll choose to become.
If you desire true freedom in your life – embrace responsibility.

The greatest day in your life will be when you take control and responsibility for your choices.

That day you will realize that you are the one in charge of the directions of your life and the consequence of that is freedom.

This post is dedicated to my dear friend Arnt Edvin Eriksen follow him on twitter.

Feeling Stuck?

“I am stuck!”

This feeling of being stuck is very familiar for most of us.

Sometimes you can’t see your way out of the mess.

How easy to think, you will be feeling like this forever.

This moment can be a turning point for you.

Here is a secret.

You are never stuck.

No matter where you are, you can turn things around.

You simply have to be open to change.

The feeling of being stuck is simply YOU telling yourself that there is more that you desire in your life.

The frustration of being stuck, and the negative emotions that are created around it, is often caused when you aren’t sure how to make the changes you want.

Yes, life has created certain challenges for you. But the purpose was not to make you feel stuck. The purpose was to set you free. To provide you with lessons, experiences, and circumstances that would trigger growth and healing.

Life is provoking, promoting, urging you to grow, stretch, learn and heal.

Life is trying to get you unstuck.

If there is one thing to be true, life is in a constant continuous change.

For getting unstuck. Get clear on what you want to change. Set up realistic timelines. Be optimistic about it is you want.  Cry when you need to. Rest when you are tired. But give life the space to work its magic.

Get unstuck, this second, this minute, this hour, this life. And live the life you are meant to live.