Responsibility is a choice
Making this choice can radically change your life, but it requires a strength of character.
Situations, events, and occurrences will happen throughout the course of our lives. These instances might be good or they might be bad. We always have a choice of how we will respond. We are, after all, response-able.
If it’s a bad situation we can choose to assign blame and be a victim of circumstances outside of our control. Or we can choose to be response-able and control what we can: our response.
We can only control what we can control: our response.
There are also times in life where we are responsible for bad things that happen to us. Poor choices do lead to hard consequences, and there is no getting around that fact.
The response-able choice is to own up to the mistakes, and then move on towards something better.
Responsibility for our actions is a choice. If more of us would make this choice, our world would be a far better place.
- Exercise:
Is there an area in your life where you feel like a victim? How can you choose a response-able attitude instead?
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