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Own Your Sh*t: The Tough Love Reset

Summer is here, we're halfway through 2015... and how is your life looking? We start the year with lofty goals and visions of rebirth, and I often find people's ambition fizzles out by March. They usually have a series of reasoning for it, but ultimately these are just excuses. And this is where a very simple (but not always easy to accept) principle comes into play: Own. Your. Sh*t. Sounds simple enough, right? But it's not. Because owning your shit requires actual ownership of your own life, behaviors, decisions, and results. That is not always cozy for people. Ownership sounds so simple and logical, but it's not. We're all about owning the cool parts of ourselves, but nobody likes the icky stuff. Nobody likes to own the part of themselves that they haven't tamed yet. The binge eating. The excuse making. The poor financial decisions. Yeah... that ownership blows. But it doesn't have to be BAD. In fact, owning your sh*t is GOOD! It feels scary