Do you often feel that you have no control over your life? Do you sometimes feel that people do not care about you and do not respect you? Do you feel that you are just drifting day after day, without any goal and direction?

Most of us feel that way, at one time or another.

Life often places us in situations that we do not like, limit our freedom, and make us feel trapped. We might work a job we do not like. We might not have enough money, or we might have many responsibilities that limit our freedom.

A person living in dire circumstances might have no charge of his or her life. A person living a comfortable life might also lack control of life. Even a rich person, who has a lot of money, might sometimes find himself in situations that he or she cannot control.

The truth is that we can learn to change this situation, and start taking charge of our life. We can have more control of our life.

You can start taking charge of your life and making positive changes. This will bring joy, happiness and power into your life.

You can start taking take charge of your life right now, instead of leaving everything at the mercy of circumstances or other people.

What can you do to take charge of your life?

I would like to suggest a few tips. You can use some of the tips immediately, and others might require a little training first. I know that most people want immediate solutions. However, this is not always possible. It takes time to make changes in your life, and it is up to you to strive and invest time and effort, and get real results, or leave things as they are.

How to Take Charge of Your Life – 8 Tips

1. Develop your Inner Strength

A certain degree of inner strength will give you the confidence and the assertiveness to deal with difficult situations and difficult people.

How do you develop your inner strength? You do so by strengthening your willpower and self-discipline. This might seem like a difficult and unpleasant task, but you are wrong. This could be a simple and pleasurable activity, and you don’t need to devote special times for it, because you can turn many of your usual daily activities into exercises to strengthen yourself.

You can find a few exercises for increasing your inner strength in my article about willpower and self-discipline. If you want to find more information, complete instructions and exercises, I suggest that you read the book “Strengthen Your Willpower and Self-Discipline“.

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2. Improve Your Concentration Skills

Focus and concentration are most important skills, which can help you direct your attention to your goals, instead of letting your mind drift wherever it wants with no aim and no direction.

Practicing concentration exercises would strengthen the power of your mind and attention, and therefore, give you control of your thoughts, your actions, and of your life.

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The Power of Concentration

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How to Focus Your Mind

3. Stop Taking Things Personally

This might not be easy, but it is possible, and is a most rewarding tip.

Always remember that not everything people say is about you. Sometimes, people don’t mean what they say, or say things just as a joke. You need not take everything people say seriously.

When you stop taking things personally, you stop getting hurt easily, stop getting angry fast, and you stop becoming easily stressed. When you can manage to stay calm and levelheaded, people would start to respect, and you will have more control of your life.

Related article:

How to Stop Taking Things Too Personally and Seriously

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4. Get Rid of Your Negative Thoughts

Always replace your negative thoughts with positive thoughts.

When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts, immediately shift your attention away from them, to positive thoughts. You will need to do this often, until this becomes a habit.

Information about negative thinking:

The Power of Negative Thinking and How to Overcome It

5. Repeat Affirmations to Boost Your Inner Strength

Affirmations are positive statement that you should repeat often, so that they take root in your mind and affect how you think, feel and act. These words can boost your inner strength, inspire, motivate you, and help you change your attitude, behavior and reactions.

Here are two examples of affirmations:

1. “I am strong and assertive, and have the power to improve my life.”

2. “I have the motivation, the energy and the ambition to take charge of my life.”

I have written many articles about the power of affirmations, as well as a book about this topic, “Affirmations – Words with Power”.

6. Use the Power of Visualization

It might seem strange to you, but visualization is a powerful technique you can use to take charge of your life and make the changes you want.

Visualization means using your imagination to create a mental scenario or images of the situations or circumstances you want. Focusing on this scenario or image tends to attract it into your life. The beauty of this technique is that every person can learn to use it. If you follow the simple instructions, you will begin to see how your life is improving.

This technique will help you take more charge of your life, achieve goals, and live the life you want.

Learn more about creative visualization:

From Imagination to Reality – Attracting Success with Mind Power

A book on this topic:

Visualize and Achieve Your Dreams

7. A Peaceful Mind Is Most Useful

When your mind is peaceful, you have more control over your life, you do not become stressed, you do not feel rushed, and can think more clearly. When your mind is at peace, you have no worries, fears or anxieties, and therefore, you feel more confident and strong.

A peaceful mind means no overthinking and nonstop analyzing of every word, action or situation. It enables you to handle more efficiently the daily affairs of your life, and to deal calmly with any inconvenient or difficult situation you might face.

Related articles:

Peace of Mind and Inner Peace Articles

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8. Believe in Yourself, and Become More Assertive

You might feel weak, shy or uncomfortable to speak up your mind. This leads to lack of assertiveness and lack of confidence, and makes you believe that other people are stronger and more important. This is an erroneous and unproductive attitude.

No one is better or stronger than you are, and you need to change this negative image of yourself.

Related Article:

How to Be Assertive – 5 Tips for Assertiveness

Related book:

Strengthen Your Willpower and Self-Discipline

What you need to do?

You need to replace these thoughts with the opposite thoughts. Every time you find yourself thinking how weak or unassertive you are, and every time you feel someone is stronger or more assertive than you are, replace these thoughts with the thought that you are strong and assertive.

These are a few tips to help you take charge of your life. Try to follow and implement them in your life, despite inner resistance, laziness, and the tendency to procrastinate. I know, sometimes it is not easy, but all the good things in life require some effort and work, and taking charge of your life is no different.

About the Author Remez Sasson is the author and creator of Success Consciousness website. He is the author of books and articles that motivate and help people to improve their life, achieve success, gain inner strength and inner peace, and become more positive and happy.