How To Develop A Self-Reliant Mentality

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

How To Have An Emotional, Physical, and Financial Self-Reliant Mentality

Maybe you feel that you are a bit of a burden emotionally, physically or financially on your friends, family or spouse.

A few crucial steps required to become self-reliant:

1.  Assume Responsibility – is really more of a mind-set than a skill-set, but it’s a crucial building block that will lay the foundation for the rest of your life.  Taking responsibility for your life isn’t all that fun. It requires doing things that are often boring, tedious, frustrating, and time-consuming. You’ll feel the burden of weighing a hard decision and accepting the consequences, even if they’re not favorable to you. You’ll often go un-praised and un-rewarded for being responsible.

But taking responsibility for your life is satisfying. You’ll gain a quiet confidence in yourself as you take control of your own life. You’ll feel empowered. Instead of feeling like life is simply happening to you, you’ll begin to feel like the captain of your destiny and master of your soul. As you assume responsibility for your life, you’ll notice doors open up to new and better opportunities.

2.  Be informed. Of course in order to take on more responsibilities, you have to know how to carry out those responsibilities.

In situations where the stakes are high, turn to others sooner rather than later; often times it’s better to learn from the mistakes of others, rather than making them yourself. But by always taking at least the first steps of intelligence gathering yourself whenever you can, you’ll grow and make discoveries you wouldn’t have otherwise.

The self-reliant man is always looking for a chance to learn and expand his knowledge and skills. He reads books not because he has to, but because he wants to.

3. Know where you’re going. A self-reliant man has goals that he has set for himself. His aims are not merely those things other people think he should do.  The self-reliant man is autonomous and doesn’t overly rely on others to validate his decisions. A self-reliant man works with an end in mind. He has created a blueprint for his future. When he runs into a problem, he informs himself on what an ideal resolution would be and then works to make it a reality. He plans out his weeks and ensures tasks that he’s responsible for are completed.

4. Make your own decisions. One thing I’ve learned the hard way is that life is actually much easier and a lot less stressful when you proactively make your own decisions.  It’s tempting when you’re younger to simply let life happen to you and hope that decisions and problems will magically resolve themselves. They won’t. In fact, problems and decisions often get bigger and harrier the longer you wait to take action on them. Make proactive decision-making a habit. With any choice or problem you may face, decide on an action plan quickly, and execute it immediately.

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Also, while you should certainly seek advice from others to inform your decisions, don’t rely on them to make your decisions for you. It’s your life. Don’t let others live it for you.

So, here is a quick recap on how YOU can quickly become more self-reliant:

Thus, I became an entrepreneur and am completely self-reliant and loving it!!  Would you like to learn more about how I did this and how I get paid great money doing what I love?  Here’s how….