Why Taking Responsibility is Key to Being the Best You (eBook)

We all have areas in life we wish were different:

• An unrewarding job, for which you feel you’re paid too little
• Being unhealthy or unhappy with your appearance
• Not getting ahead financially in life
• Unsatisfying relationships with people, including family, friends and partners
• Goals you’ve set that you never seem able to achieve.

However, most people make the mistake of passively accepting their situation, rather than taking responsibility for it. The first instinct is often to blame bad luck or to blame other people. And passing the buck does absolutely nothing to improve their situation.

Taking responsibility for your life is the most powerful attribute you can possess in life.

Assuming responsibility for everything can be incredibly liberating. Once you start accepting responsibility, you don’t have to wait for anyone’s permission or a change of luck to make changes. You just… Start. NOW.

You’ll see the results immediately because you have fundamentally changed your mindset and developed habits you can apply on a daily basis.

However, taking ultimate responsibility for your life is not easy. Many of us have spent our lives passively accepting things that we did not think we could change, and believing that ultimate fulfillment in life is beyond our control.

It’s not. That’s why we wrote this eBook.

Why Taking Responsibility is Key to Being The Best You by Ideapod will be your indispensable guide to taking ultimate responsibility for your life.

This evidence-based, highly practical eBook will create a motor of change deep within that will always be with you, no matter what challenges you face.

Who this eBook is for

Ideapod’s eBook, Why Taking Responsibility is Key to Being the Best You, is perfect for people who:

• Have obstacles and challenges in life that they struggle to overcome
• Have goals in life they never seem able to achieve
• Want to take charge of their life rather than being a bystander.

Life isn’t always kind or fair, but courage, perseverance, honesty—and ultimately personal responsibility—are the only ways to overcome the challenges that life throws at us.

Although many of us may think we take responsibility, it is a skill that has to be learned and developed—even by people who have achieved success. Now, in this highly motivating new eBook, we give you the strategies you need to stare down your challenges and seize control of your future.

By the end of this eBook, you will develop the unshakable confidence to:

• Tackle any challenge
• Overcome any obstacle
• Successfully navigate the fallout of any kind of crisis
• Take chances and embrace life.

Above all, this eBook will convince you that taking responsibility for our lives actually gives us greater power, provides boundless opportunities to grow, and helps us discover values that are truly important to us.

What you’ll learn

• Say Goodbye to Being a Victim – We unpack the human tendency to apportion blame to everything and anyone around us and to feel entitled to certain things without having to work for them. Learn why it’s accepting responsibility for all areas of our lives that propels us forward towards our goals and, ultimately, our happiness.
• Find Your Power – No matter the challenges you face in life, we all have the power to choose our attitude to life. We introduce the groundbreaking book, ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, where Viktor Frankl used his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp to understand how we react when in adverse situations and how to derive meaning from our greatest challenges.
• Put Things into Perspective – What does your perspective have to do with taking greater responsibility for your life? Everything. Learn how to put things into perspective and turn the fears and obstacles in your life into your most powerful allies.
• Powerful Action Steps – We outline a series of powerful action steps to move you forward in life and help you develop daily habits that will last a lifetime. These detailed action steps encourage you to take action immediately (starting today) to implement positive change in your life.
• Discover Your True Purpose – We help you identify your purpose in life, and outline ways you can then work more successfully towards fulfilling it on a daily basis. Our focus is on creating achievable goals and developing new habits of personal responsibility.

About Ideapod

Most so called “self-help experts” advise you to try techniques like “positive thinking” or “positive visualization” to achieve your goals and live a better life.

If only it were that easy…

I learned the hard way that there’s a lot more to being happy than “positive thinking”. It takes action every day over a long period of time to create sustainable positive change in your life.

Taking responsibility for how I react to external circumstances has been the single most important factor that has drastically changed my life. Not only has it contributed to the significant growth of Ideapod over the last few years, it’s also helped me to stop blaming others for what frustrates me in life and start taking action.

Ideapod has quickly become the go-to resource for new ideas and upgrading what and how you think.

We’re one of the fastest growing digital media networks in the world, with 1.5 million+ monthly readers, 330,000+ social media followers and 100,000+ email subscribers.

Therefore, we reach millions of people with perspectives that may seem counterintuitive at first but will help you understand the ideas that shape our lives — and our future.

If you’re interested in the concept of personal responsibility and developing your personal power, I encourage you to check out Ideapod’s new online journey. This 30-day online course is designed to re-engineer your life and create a motor of change deep within you.

This course will help you:

• Live you life you’ve always dreamed of, without compromising who you are
• Identify your true purpose in life and let it drive you forward
• Create a motor of change within that will always be with you, no matter what challenges you face.

Check out Ideapod’s new online course here.

With thanks,

Justin Brown

A message from Justin Brown, founder of Ideapod