Skip to main content

The eminent part of responsibility

 In my years as a secondary school student, I was the only child at home with my parents because my other siblings were in boarden house in their respective schools. I learnt to work my chores into my school activities to ensure everything was well attended to. I remember onetime when I had an exam and I didn't want to cook because I really wanted to just read for the exam, I was told that people who write exams also have to eat. It wasn't so easy doing all those chores and still doing well in school but I did and I'm happy about all the lessons I learnt then because they helped me to form habits that are invaluable now. They made me responsible for things even when I feel it's something I shouldn't be bothered about. Responsibility was the lesson and is still the key.

Responsibility is a requirement expected of a person as regarding something. It is a response to something, a trait of being answerable to someone. It spreads through all areas of life including family, work or social organization. Just like the Managing Director of a company has a responsibility towards the company he manages, a father and mother, husband and wife, children each have their own responsibility. Everyone has a responsibility over something but most importantly, you have a responsibility over your self.

We live our life without making conscious efforts to find out what we want out of life and what we need to do to achieve what you want. We end up living a life of "anything goes or anyhow it turns out". We can have dreams and aspirations but without passion and taking responsibility to ignite the passion and sustain it, our dreams fizzle away or just remain silent and unachieved in us. At work, we focus more on what our organization is supposed to do for us and forget to think about our responsibility to them. 

Once you ignite your passion, you ought to take full responsibility to enable you succeed in anything you set out to do. Taking personal responsibility can change your entire life and make you a better person. Personal responsibility has to do with giving your 100% and expecting nothing in return, it involves owning the choices you make and the ways you respond to whatever experience you have.

It involves not pointing fingers at anyone, not blaming anyone but you for something gone wrong, not waiting for someone else or the government to solve your problem. You are responsible for what you do, don't do, how you respond to what's done to you. When you have errors in your report, take responsibility even if someone else prepared it. If something has gone wrong in your life before now, forget about the past, eliminate all of your excuses, assume personal responsibility of your life, Darren Hardy. Dare to take responsibility of what is under your care. Its part of the growth process. If you dont have that experience, how will you be able to educate others. 

Remember also that as a christian, you have an account to give of everything given to you to work with (Matt 25:14-40). Your wisdom, your skills, your expertise, your job description...

Once you can take personal responsibility, you can be in control of your present and your future.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

When loyalty is broken

Have you ever felt betrayed by someone? Personally I have a couple of times and the funny part of it is that it often happens with the people we trust. I was hurt, angry and disappointed because I could not understand how someone I care about would do such to me.  Discussions on friendships are always very interesting because at one point or another everyone has or had a friend. For the best of us, we can invest all our body and soul into a friendship and still be disappointed. Friendship is a commitment and it involves loyalty. However, the fact is that successful friendships are no longer guaranteed and that is why we need to learn how to let go, forgive and move forward from disloyalty. Loyalty is the quality of being faithful to commitments. However, I heard this saying, " loyalty has an expiration date " and then I saw it. So how do you know disloyal people; -you question their friendship, that is their commitment to you. -you cannot count on them. -you find ...

How to Increase Your Job Satisfaction

You'd be wondering why this topic?, why do I have to be the best at a job I already don't like?, why not just quit the moment I dislike it?. These questions are not out of line. The reason is that a survey carried out few years back has disclosed that more than half of employees don't like their jobs. However since that's what we have to do at the moment, my guess is that we have to be our best in it. So I'd want to discuss that period between when we get a job we'll have full satisfaction in and while we are doing what we currently do.  It is really difficult putting up with dissatisfaction and so it is very easy to detect when a person don't like their job anymore. They begin to do it haphazardly, shift it to other people, exert their frustration and anger with the job on innocent coworkers, make excuses for not getting things done and seize to take responsibility for any error coming from their work among other things. However, I've been a...

Thriving Successfully in a Hostile Workplace

Have you ever been in that workplace where nothing you do seems to be inline irrespective of the fact that you’re following instructions closely? Do you have that boss who’s never satisfied with what you do even when you do it according to his guidelines? Are you in that job where you’ve been scolded for both what you ought to do and what you’re not responsible for? A job where there’s hostility all around from both co-workers and bosses. Hostility has several effects on both employees and employers. It can make you feel afraid of going to work or even make you quit your job. It can reduce your self esteem, take away your happiness and job satisfaction, reduce your productivity, make you transfer the aggression to others and generally impact your life negatively. Hostility can come in various ways including in; belittling your opinion, spreading rumors behind your back, holding you or your work up to a ridicule, sending unfairly negative information about you to a hig...