Responsibility

It’s time to meet the person who has been responsible for the life you live right now.

This person has created your income, your debt, your relationships, your health, your fitness level, your weight, your attitudes and your behaviors. Who is it? To introduce yourself, just walk to the closest mirror and say hello! This person is you!

Life is like a road. There are long and short roads; smooth and rocky roads; crooked and straight paths. In our life many roads would come our way as we journey through life. There are roads that lead to a life of single blessedness, marriage, and religious vocation. There are also roads that lead to fame and fortune on one hand, or isolation and poverty on the other. There are roads to happiness as there are roads to sadness, roads towards victory and jubilation, and roads leading to defeat and disappointment.

No doubt you have heard the following statements/questions regarding fault.

Whose fault is it? This question seeks to find fault and who to blame.

It's not my fault. This statement is defensive and stops all openness to seek resolution.

You may be wondering to yourself, ‘But, I am an employee! How can I choose to only do work that is of high value? Who am I going to delegate it to? Many of the low value work like checking emails & paperwork are still necessary, they must be done!’

Self awareness involves being conscious of who you are and how you will react in certain situations – but it’s also more than that.

• Are you living life at an ever increasing pace?
• Do you feel as though you are reacting to events and other people in all aspects of your life?
• Do you feel as though you have little or no control of your time?
• Do you feel you have a lack of choice about things - feel disempowered?
• Do you take time to think about what is important to you?

Personal responsibility is the most important ethic you can exercise. With the cultivation of personal responsibility comes growth in all areas of life. It is a matter of taking charge of your own self and your circumstances through well-directed thoughts, words, and deeds.

Taking responsibility for yourself involves more than admitting wrong-doings or arriving on time for work: When you make a choice or devise a solution to a problem, you must be accountable for the results or outcomes. To truly take personal responsibility in life you need to let go of any concerns over how others live and the impact that potentially has on you. You need to own your emotions without blaming the actions of others for the way you feel, which certainly sounds simpler than it actually is!