Dr. Stephen Covey in his excellent book, The Eighth Habit, says that part of reason that people fall into habit of blaming others is that don’t want to face fact that they are truly to blame for where they are in life. They would much rather “play victim” in life. The truth is ,though, that until a person can honestly say “I am what I am” or “I am where I am because I chose to be here,” they can never improve their current situation. It’s time for us to take responsibility for our lives, no matter situation we find ourselves in.

Once our mission statement is in place, we can then focus like a laser beam on task ahead. If we go out on a bright, sunny day and hold a magnifying glass over a stack of newspapers, it will never start a fire - if we're moving glass around. But what happens when we hold glass in one place? The beam is concentrated on that one spot and eventually - voila!