Accept responsibility for your life

This is one of the first steps to success, according to Jack Canfield in his book The Success Principles (okay, others have said it, too).

Accept your part in whatever happens--as Canfield points out, if you blame others for what went wrong, you're as much as saying you have no control...and therefore can't change anything.

But...you also need to accept responsibility for greatness. Accept responsibility for fulfilling expectations you create when you write that bestselling novel. Accept responsibility for the care and feeding of other souls besides your own in relationships. Accept responsibility and your own wisdom in making good choices with money, time, food, energy, etc.

A consciously sane life requires that you pull out the depths and heights of your spirit and put it on display--at least to yourself, and probably to others. Don't let it scare you away.

Accept responsibility for being great.