How much responsibility do you take for your own successes and failures?
I subscribe to Bob Proctor’s Six Minutes to Success and recently he was talking about the 11 characteristics of great leaders as stated by Napolean Hill in Think and Grow Rich. In the particular video I was watching, Bob Proctor talked about the 10th characteristic – a willingness to assume full responsibility.
He said there are two kinds of responsibility, being responsible to someone or something and being responsible for someone or something. We are responsible to others, our customers or employers for example to give our best, but we can never be responsible for others. Neither can we hold other people responsible for us.
Bob Proctor says that responsibility is the key to freedom. If we blame others for our problems or lack of success then we have made ourselves victims of things and people we cannot control. Once we decide to take responsibility for our own actions, our own successes and failures, then we have the ability to change them for the better. You can’t change the world but you can change yourself.
What would you like to improve? Finances, health, happiness. What are you going to take responsibility for today and change for the better?
Wayne Woodworth
Responsible for my own success