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Own Your life
Strategies to take back control of your life
It is easy to wake up to a life out of control. You sit alone on a quiet afternoon staring out a window, realizing nothing left in your life belongs to you. You are living in a total reactionary mode, letting a hundred outside influences create the path you are on, a path you doubt is getting you anywhere.
You work too many hours in a job you now do just for a living, finding yourself way past the days where you thought this work was moving your career ahead, and wasting the talent you possess to build the career you do want.
We play too hard in our off hours, burning up our energy trying to be everywhere, every day, pleasing everyone and then find by doing it all we seldom ever get to do anything that is important in our own life.
We can never say “no” to anyone and end up overcommitting, but still pissing off everyone because we can’t keep up the endless commitments we make to keep everyone happy.
Your life is out of control because you gave away the power to control your own outcome. It is easy to get trapped on a path that takes you nowhere, that burns up your best years, because you get caught in everyone else’s madness. Here are a few ideas to take back control of your own life:
