I Believe in Personal Responsibility
Excuses, excuses, excuses. They never end. Few people want to accept responsibility for their lives. It is always someone else’s fault or due to circumstances beyond their control. The fact is that it doesn’t matter what happens out there (in the external world) because you create your life, internally, by creating your thoughts.
Every word you say, every movement you make, every emotion you feel and every external stimulus that you either respond to or react to is preceded by a thought. Your thought. You control what you think and then your thought dictates how you act or react.
1. Speech
Prior to every word or sentence fragment, you must formulate the foundational thoughts to produce verbal communication. Otherwise, understandable communication cannot take place. You determine what you say and how you say it. Your thoughts create your speech. Words don’t just fall out of your mouth.
2. Actions
Your thoughts control what actions you take and how quickly that you take them. If your thoughts determine that something is important, then you will act as if this “something” is important. It will be a priority for you. You will make sure that it gets done or acted upon.
If it is unimportant, then you may or may not get around to doing it. But it is your thought that has determined what will happen.
How to improve your thoughts
If your thoughts lead to every word and action, then it becomes imperative that our thinking process is accurate, rational, genuine and informed. How we think is determined by the quality of the content that we allow into our minds. Just like a computer, you cannot get out something that is not in there.
If you have chosen not to educate yourself, then the quality of your life will be decided by the limited information that you have available. Every time a situation presents itself, you must access the stores of knowledge that you have accumulated and then based on that information, make a decision. The quality of your decisions (and your life) is limited by your knowledge.
Read
If the quality of your life is decided by your thoughts, don’t you think it is important to improve your thoughts? Read a book. Any book. Read to your children. Just take the time to read. You will find that reading not only expands your storehouse of knowledge but it also opens your mind to the possibilities that you may have never considered.
I am responsible for my words and deeds, which are determined by how I think. My thinking is decided by what I allow to come into my mind. The resulting conclusion is that in order to have the utmost control over my life, I must control what I allow to enter my mind.
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Chris:
Great article - I LOVE the concept of personal responsibility becuase it’s so powerful.
Last week I decided to take personal responsibility on getting myself back in shape. I decided that I would be getting up at 5 30 every morning. Not an easy thing to do but do-able if you set your mind to it.
Yesterday I woke up at 5 30 but went back to sleep. I noticed how I felt afterwards. Not good. But I didn’t beat myself up. I went for a workout later in the day and resolved to get up the next morning (today) at 5 30 and I did!
Once you take personal responsibility, the universe sets in motion everything that needs to be put in place for it to happen. All that is needed is a FIRM DECISION.
Stephen
ACTION is the key! So many of us make excuses and complain, but very few of us take personal responsibility for what we are complaining and making excuses for. Look in the mirror, accept that you put yourself in what ever situation you are in, and then take ACTION!
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Chris:
Love your site.
To pieces.
Good stuff, and especially like this article about personal responsibility.
After hearing from thousands of job seekers over the years, most of whom are far from finding their dream jobs, I’ve found that their lack of success usually boils down to exactly what you’ve talked about here.
Keep after ‘em.
DM Werner