# Give yourself the permission to live the life you want

> Taking responsibility for your life and doing the right thing builds self-esteem and removes the inner resistance that holds you back from success.

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- Last updated: 2026-10-15
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Taking responsibility for your life and doing the right thing builds self-esteem and removes the inner resistance that holds you back from success.

Giving yourself permission to live the life you want starts with taking responsibility for your life and consistently doing the right thing. As self-esteem builds, you begin to feel you deserve more, which removes the inner resistance that leads to self-sabotage. Affirmations help a little, but responsibility and right action have the biggest impact.

Last updated 15 Oct 2026 · Bodhih Insights team · reviewed by [Siddharthan VGJ](https://bodhih.com/siddharthan-vgj/), Founder

By taking responsibility for our lives we not only gain control of what happens, it also becomes natural to feel like you deserve more in life as your self-esteem builds and as you do the right thing more consistently. You feel better about yourself which is critically important because it’s most often you who’s blocking your own way and the way to success. It’s you who start to self-sabotage or hold yourself back in subtle or not so subtle ways, once you are on your way to the success you dream of.

To remove that inner resistance you must feel and think that you actually deserve what you want. You may be able to do a little about that by affirmations and other positive techniques. But the biggest impact by far comes from taking responsibility for yourself and your life by doing the right thing.