You can hear it now…. That voice explaining every problem away with reasons of why they are not responsible for the situation or the outcome, especially in business. Personal responsibility is taking ownership of how your choices influence the outcomes in your life, learning from those outcomes and taking the initiative to improve each outcome through better choices.
Yes, there are many times in life that things happen and that you are not in control of. However, you are in control of how you respond, act and react to that situation.
Another way to think of this is, is responsibility is a bit like the before something happens or before the fact. Being accountable for your results is a little bit like after the fact, or a review of that has happened.
Part of the power of taking responsibility for your actions is to silence that negative voice in your head. Free up that emotional space in your head with the good stuff, by thinking of the things you can do. Interrupt that little tape recorder that goes on repeat in your mind, and stop excusing and rehearsing that conversation. Being in business myself and speaking to so many business owners, I hear this a lot…where there is a fear or there is something or a belief as to why they cant achieve something.
Let me share a recent example of this. I was speaking to a beautiful business owner recently, and she had quite a fear around technology. This lady has been in business for herself for a little while. Now, to do that, of course, you need to have a good understanding of technology, or a willingness to learn and determination to go with it.
Guess what? Anna got what she believed and her business will not grow and mature because she believed her own excuse. Because responsibility is the force that binds an individual to the course of action demanded by the goal, personal responsibility can incur beneficial habits and admirable behaviors that will advocate successful outcome. The state. These Core Values, instilled from the beginning of our career in boot camp, are the three guiding.
In addition to taking more difficult, more complex classes, many new college students are also experiencing a much greater degree of personal responsibility and independence than anything they have ever previously experienced. For some students, this transition is an easy one, and success in college comes with little or no effort. However, for many students, the transition is very.
Victims, unlike creators who unremittingly ponder alternatives which lead in the upshot they wish, attempt to find blame for negative, unpleasant situations and obstacles that occur in their lives. Some people become victims in their environment when rather than by accepting personal responsibility, gaining self-awareness and believing in themselves, they accept the victim role of trusting that outer forces decide the outcomes and experiences of their lives.
Referring to victims, On Course states. Keys to Effective Learning. Study Skills and Habits for Success 6th ed. Goal Setting — teaches how to create clear, specific, written goals or objectives with plans and target dates for reaching them.
Values Congruence — teaches how to develop a healthy balance between personal values, beliefs and desired goals. Achievement Drive — covers how to increase the level of desire, effort and commitment exerted toward individual goals.
Self-Esteem — teaches how to increase the degree to which people have confidence in and value themselves and feel worthy to enjoy goal achievement. Self-Control — teaches the ability and self-discipline to handle personal feelings and emotions in difficult life circumstances. Self-Management — teaches how people learn to manage their own individual time, talents and abilities and focus these on clear objectives. Problem Solving — covers how to improve the ability and willingness to objectively work through roadblocks and use creative thinking skills to arrive at desirable goal solutions.
Resiliency — teaches the steps to proactively work through processes and activities and cause bottomline results to happen. Self-Improvement — helps people learn to be open to change and to learning and to constantly look for ways to improve themselves. Personal Responsibility — improves the level of individual commitment people are willing to make in setting clear goals and then assuming full responsibility for their achievement.
All assessments and instruction are electronically integrated into our management system, eliminating the expensive and time-consuming activities of assigning, scoring and reporting results, and freeing up the program administrator to help where needed.
Program accountability is electronically built into the system. Learned skills, if practiced, become habits in 21 days. There is a beauty in writing your innermost thoughts down as they become measurable and more importantly manageable. If we nip every negative thought in the bud as soon as they arise, we know we are staying on the right course to greatness. Once you have mastered holding yourself responsible then you can hold other people responsible. A mentor is one of the pillars of success.
Be the mentor that holds them responsible and checks up on their success. Have an email conversation every week, holding them responsible for the goals they had set the week before. People are more driven to deliver when another party is holding them responsible. We learn so much more when we teach subjects, so teach your student how to hold himself or herself responsible and have greatness in their lives.
These four action points will give you control over the direction you want to take in life. We can make a conscious effort everyday to guide ourselves in the right direction by holding ourselves responsible.
Chris Targett all about helping people to help themselves through blog posts and online services. He helps people find accountability partners and is a co-founder of Accountability Buddy , where people can find an accountability partner for free. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Yet, relationships are commitments, and any commitment will require some degree of sacrifice, whether that be a reassessment of your priorities, a reevaluation of your self-worth , or placing the needs of your partner before your own.
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