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Jason Seiden:
…Aside from personal responsibility and a little courage, not much. There's no mystery to what it takes to succeed - we've kind of cracked that code, and yet people turn their back on it all the time.

Management consultant Jason Seiden, author of the book How to Self-Destruct…

You need to be willing to own your life; first of all, you need to be able to take responsibility for your life. I think that's scary for a lot of people because if you kind of follow it logically…"If I take responsibility for my life then I'm putting myself in control and if I'm in control then I have the power to change the things that I don't like." What that means is that I'm to blame for all the mistakes that I continue to live with so I can no longer say this was this person's fault or that person held me down, or it was management - it was me.

Many of us have a tendency to sabotage our own success often by simply not taking action, we over-analyze or we procrastinate.

Understanding it is not nearly as important as just getting off your butt, accepting it and then acting in spite of it. Recognizing, "Hey I'm predisposed for one reason or another to avoid action by sitting here and reading the paper or cleaning my closet or over-thinking things" - and you have to recognize that. So when I'm over-thinking I need that trigger in my brain that says, "Knock it off, get off your butt and go do something."

And Jason says you need to cut yourself some slack too because everybody does this…

A body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion. Those are not just laws of thermodynamics they're laws of human nature apparently too.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.