Responsibility Reset Story: The Moment I Took My Power Back
- Alek Martin

- Oct 29
- 1 min read
I was sitting in my car. Engine off.
Just sitting there — staring out the window, scrolling through messages that didn’t matter.

Another day wasted pretending to be busy.
Another day avoiding the truth: I wasn’t stuck because of life — I was stuck because of me.
Every time something went wrong, I blamed someone.
My partner. My clients. The economy.
Hell, even the weather.
And yet, everywhere I went, the same chaos followed.
Different faces. Same patterns.
Then one afternoon, in that silent car park, I caught my own reflection in the mirror —
and it hit me.
Like a slap.
Like a truth that had been waiting years to be heard.
The common denominator in every problem I’ve ever had… is me.
Not in a self-hating way — in a freeing way.
Because if I’m part of the problem,
then I’m also the one with the power to change it.
I sat there — no music, no distractions —
just breathing that in.
And something shifted.
The weight dropped.
Responsibility didn’t feel like guilt anymore — it felt like power.
From that moment, I stopped blaming.
Stopped waiting.
Stopped outsourcing my life to circumstances.
That was the day I stopped being the victim —
and became the driver again.
Yves
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