Do you tell yourself that your loved ones, friends, and co-workers will keep you accountable and help you lose weight?
Do you ask them to stop you from overeating and to tell you to exercise more?
If you do, what you are really doing is using your loved ones, friends, and co-workers as a crutch for your lack of personal responsibility.
Your loved ones, friends, and co-workers cannot keep you accountable even if they wanted to. It’s not their job to save you from yourself - that’s your job. When you try to delegate that responsibility to someone else, you give up the power that comes with it. You give up the power to change.
Ask yourself this: if your loved ones, friends, and co-workers hold you accountable, how come they let you get fat in the first place? Are they accountable for that too? Of course they're not. You are. You got yourself fat, and only you can get yourself thin.
Do you tell yourself you are doing it because you don’t want to let them down? The only person you are letting down is yourself.
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
- Jim Rohn
It’s good to have support from your family and friends but, once you become an adult, they are not accountable for your actions. They can support and encourage you, but they cannot be held accountable for you and they cannot help you hold yourself accountable.
Taking responsibility can be scary. Instead of trying to ease your fear by blaming others, you need to take full responsibility and act.
Until you do, you are powerless.
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