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Take Responsibility For Your Future

Written by: Debbie Ruston

Article Overview: You must take control and responsibility of your future....there is no such thing as "job security" any longer.

Take Responsibility For Your Future

I have mentioned many times before, that the only "job security" you have is the security you create for yourself.....I worked with a company for 18 years before starting the business I now have. Things were good there for about 13 of those years....the last 5 years, business was not good.....after doing everything I knew to do I came to the realization that my income was MY responsibility, my future was MY responsibility and my choices were MY responsibility! I could not rely on the company I was working with to give me what I truly wanted....if it wasn't there, I had to find it elsewhere....

And that's what I did.....I decided that after 18 years of commitment, loyalty and love of the business I had been in, that it was time to move on, to create my own dream and take a stand for what I really wanted in my life. Was that against conventional thinking? Absolutely! People couldn't understand why I left, why I would make a change.

It's so interesting how the mind works.....people don't want to see the obvious...it is easier to bury your head in the sand and "hope" things will work out. That is not what smart business people do. Successful entrepreneurs realize that they are in control of their results, they play full out and make changes when necessary and don't let fear, or limiting beliefs hold them back.

So, 3 years ago I left that company to build my own dream. Last week the company that I left went out of business....was I surprised.....no of course not, the writing had been on the wall for the last 8 years...that's why I left 3 years ago. But even after all challenges that company had for the last 8 years, most of the people that were still there in the end were in shock, they couldn't believe the doors closed.

It's time to wake up people! YOU and only you are in control of your financial well being. You either take control of your future or someone else will control it for you. You are either a victim of circumstances or you are victorious because of your choices.

Life is a choice.....stop letting fear and limiting beliefs control you and take a stand for your life and choose what you really want!

In your Service,

Debbie Ruston

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