Take Charge of Your Life
Posted: January 15, 2019
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Everyone deals with a time when we feel out of control of our situation. It can be in a personal or professional setting, and it can seem ovewhelming. If you find yourself in that position, don't be afraid to make changes that will help you turn things around. You may be surprised at how your circumstances change when you've made a few tweaks to take charge of your life.
Laura Lollar, business coach and writer for Lauralollar.com, shares tips to take charge of your life and improve your circumstances.
6 Ways to Take Charge of Your Life
A couple weeks ago I smelled something funky in my car. I live in the woods, so I thought maybe a mouse had crawled up in there and died. I put up with it figuring it couldn’t last too long. But four days later when I took the car out again, the smell was horrendous! This time I went in search of the cause, looking under the seats, in the glove compartment and finally in the trunk. And what to my wondering eyes did appear? Nope, it wasn’t eight tiny reindeer. It was five bags of garbage and some used kitty litter. Whoops. I had planned to take that to the dumpster.So I ask you, what are you carrying around that’s making your life unpleasant? Do you want things to get better? Want to take charge? Here’s how…
- Stop wishing that X would be different. Instead, decide what you can do today to wring the most good you can out of it. I don’t know of one person who isn’t grappling with circumstances that weren’t of their choosing. “This isn’t how I imagined my life would be” might have crossed your mind once or twice. Believe me, no one is exempt. Yes, you’re stuck for the time being, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find joy somewhere in there. Ask yourself, “If not for X what would I have missed out on?”
- Set a “horror floor” of how low you’ll go until you decide “enough is enough.” Too often we allow scope creep to transform our life into something we’d never have chosen. Boundaries get stretched. You agree to overlook it just this once. (But NEXT time, whoa baby, watch out!) So put some standards in place. And if you relax them in a moment of weakness, know that tomorrow you can give it another go. Just because you slipped off the horse once doesn’t mean it has to become a permanent state.