The second you take ownership of your results, you take ownership of your ability to change them. As long as it’s somebody else’s fault, you’re stuck waiting for somebody else. And they’re probably not coming.
Every place that you’re in right now has your fingerprints on it. The good and the bad, the wins and the gaps. You chose some of it. You tolerated the rest. And until you own that completely, there’s no moving forward, just moving sideways with a better excuse.
I stopped explaining why things didn’t work. I stopped revisiting who was wrong and who was right. I stopped trying to make the story of what happened to me an excuse for where I am. Accountability costs. You have to look at your own decisions without the filter.