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What is Personal Responsibility? 8 Key Ingredients
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Personal responsibility
It means not seeking others to blame for what happens in your life and being able to respond to challenges personally.
Being aware that your decisions have a direct impact on your life’s ...
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Strong communication skills
To take responsibility for yourself, you have to know the things you are responsible for.
It is critical to communicate so you won’t make a mistake due to assumptions. Ask questions...
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Creating boundaries
Avoid over-committing and evaluate your workload before adding more to your plate.
Learning to say 'no' or 'not right now' will help you create the necessary boundaries so you'l...
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Controlling impulses
We make poor decisions in the moment all the time to satisfy our impulses, even though these decisions may have obvious destructive consequences.
If given the time to really think about the ...
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Building courage
Build the courage to accept your failures. This is how you demonstrate personal responsibility.
Identify the things you are afraid of. Fear is a product of the unknow...
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Persistence
Look for opportunities for growth in every failure. And actively seek these opportunities.
If you become complacent in your unfulfilling job or dull relationship, you aren’t giving you...
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Your authentic self
To be responsible for yourself means that you will do what’s expected of you, even when no one is around to know.
This does not just mean doing the things that someone else subje...
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Being organized
It will help you keep yourself on track and on top of your goals and responsibilities.
You have to track your personal obligations just as you would your professional ones so you ...
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What Vulnerability Really Is
Vulnerability is consciously choosing to freely express your thoughts, feelings, desires, and opinions regardless of what others might think of you.
Vulnerability is showing your rough edges ...
Accept who you are
When someone admits they are bad at something, they will probably be more respected.
Accept who you are, faults and all.
Taking responsibility
When you take responsibility for your problems, you're in control of the solution. When you blame others, you’re handing over control to someone else. And you cannot control them.
Taking up responsibility shows that you accept reality for what it is and set out to work with what you have.
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Mindsets in the workplace
We spend half of our day at work (and even more) and both our mindset and the mindset of those around us will have a significant impact on our life, especially the mindset of our leaders.
The fixed mindset in the workplace
- It doesn’t easily allow you to change course.
- It doesn't believe in growth, but in right and wrong and any suggestion of change or adaptation is considered a criticism.
- Challenges or obstacles tend activate defensive mechanisms.
- When something goes wrong, it doesn't take responsibility- it blame others because that would be akin to accepting inferiority.
- Believes in a world of hierarchy: where some people are superior and some are inferior.
Creating a growth-mindset environment
- Presenting skills as learnable
- Conveying that the environment values learning and perseverance, not just ready-made genius or talent
- Giving feedback in a way that promotes learning and future success.
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“The moment you take personal responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in..."
Hal Elrod
The victim mindset
It happens when we focus on how you believe other people are doing you wrong or what you think they are doing to cause you pain. It means focusing on other people's flaws and how you feel mistreated.
This fuels feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and despair.
Looking in the right direction
How someone else treats you is outside your control.
But noticing who or what you are exposing yourself to is within your control. And so you should focus on that.