Take Responsibility
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the
circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is
something you have charge of.
– Jim Rohn
Take personal responsibility in
order to grow. Even in situations, where you are a victim of circumstances,
think how you could have avoided the damage. We find one hundred reasons, why
we are not responsible for what happens to us. That will be rationalising how
helpless we are. Successful people differ from others on one unique trait: they
own responsibility for what happens to them.
You don’t grow by blaming or
complaining about others for your position in life. You will feel bad. But that
is not going to help you in any way. Next time when you suffer any setback, ask
yourself the following questions:
- In what way I am
responsible for it?
- How could I have
prevented it?
- What do I learn
from this?
- How am I going
to prevent its recurrence?
- What strategy do I have to reduce the damage
that is done to me?
Remember that we can learn a lot
from our everyday experience. Life is not what happens to us; what is more
important is what we do with what happens to us!
(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')
NC Sridharan
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