Doing Stuff Daily

Podcast 033 This is the 5th habit in the “20 Habits of Success” series Control Your Own Life This means you should take responsibility for your own life. Being personally responsible means not making any excuses. It wasn’t my fault. The other guy screwed up. I didn’t have the right instructions. Google Maps was wrong. I once interviewed with a man who wanted to hire me to work for his “company.” The entire interview he told me about himself, how he built the company, he makes the money, he controls the growth. He also told me he owned a softball team. (Nobody owns a softball team) He just sponsored the team by buying their uniforms for them.  Needless to say, he was a narcissist and a control freak. To work for him would mean him telling me exactly what to do and I would have to do it. I turned that job offer down. Even though I needed a job, I wasn’t going to work for him. I knew that if everything went well, he’d take the credit. If anything went wrong, he’d blame me for it. Florence Nightingale said it bes