You Have Control

One of my favourite quotes has always been – if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten.

How often have you cried and prayed for things to be different, but then got up and done the same things as the day before?

You won't have more money if you don't put in the work.

You won't have a loving relationship if you don't take the time to nurture it.

You won't have a beautiful house if you don't get outside paint it.

We often look to others to change how we feel, but the reality is the only person who can change how we feel is us and the only way we are going to succeed is by doing. Not all circumstances are changeable and most are not changeable immediately, but there are always steps we can take to improve our situations and at the very least, the way we see our situation.

Not all of us are ready to take ownership and see how our behaviour and interactions ends us up in the life we may not want, but I encourage you to think about your own behaviour rather than those around you.

What can you change to better yourself that may better the situation?

This does not mean we forgive and forget, allow people to walk all over us, or give all of ourselves to others, it is simply a different way to look at the situation and start gaining some power back at the fact that YOU do have control to make things better if you want to.