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Take full responsibility for your own life

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Wilko van de Kamp
Sep 28, 2021
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Earlier this year, I had the privilege of meeting Jack Canfield, the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and the Success Principles. After working with Canfield, I felt inspired to write my second book in The Freedom Project series sooner than planned. I also wanted share some of the Success Principles I learned right here with you. Today the first principle, which states that there is only one person who is 100% responsible for your life: you.

If we want to be successful in life, we first have to take total responsibility for our lives. We’re responsible for all our successes and failures, health, relationships, financial situation, our feelings and everything else.

It is you who has created the life you’re living today, so you have take full responsibility for it. Only by taking full responsibility, you put yourself in the driver’s seat to achieve things that are important to you and change your life for the better.

To really take 100% responsibility for our lives, we mus…

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