Personal responsibilty

I think there should be mandatory classes teaching personal responsibility. It’s possible most people don’t understand what personal responsibility is. Some of what accepting personal responsibility means to me include:

Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life.

Accepting that you are responsible for what you choose to feel or think.

Accepting that you choose the direction for your life.

Accepting that you cannot blame others for the choices you have made.

Tearing down the mask of defense or rationale for why others are responsible for who you are,
what has happened to you, and what you are bound to become. (That’s a tough one.)

The rational belief that you are responsible for determining who you are, and how your choices affect your life.

Pointing the finger of responsibility back to yourself and away from others when you are discussing the consequences of your actions.

Realizing that you determine your feelings about any events or actions addressed to you, no matter how negative they seem. (Another tough one.)
Recognizing that you are your best cheerleader; it is not reasonable or healthy for you to depend on others to make you feel good about yourself. (My favorite.)
Recognizing that as you enter adulthood and maturity, you determine how your self-esteem will develop.

Not feeling sorry for the “bum deal” you have been handed but taking hold of your life and giving it direction and reason.

Letting go of your sense of over responsibility for others.

Protecting and nurturing your health and emotional well being.

Taking preventive health oriented steps of structuring your life with time management, stress management, confronting fears, and burnout prevention.

Taking an honest inventory of your strengths, abilities, talents, virtues, and positive points.(err.)

Letting go of blame and anger toward those in your past who did the best they could, given the limitations of their knowledge, background, and awareness.

Working out anger, hostility, pessimism, and depression over past hurts, pains, abuse, mistreatment, and misdirection.

Proactive/Reactive

Being proactive simply means taking control of the situation instead of being controlled by it.

That should be the behavior of everybody: act in advance to avoid problems. But in most situations, we are reactive, we are waiting for a problem to become a crisis.

Hello

Genealogy

Dad,

I've created your very own post for more family history.
Love,

John

Slow going

It's been slow going on the test thus far, but hopefully if everyone forwards the email it will continue on. Thanks to everyone who has posted so far, including the few posts that seem irrated.

Guestbook

If you're reading this post it's either because you happened to click on my blog, or you got my original email with the link to my blog. I want to see how many people I can get to sign my blog by sending out one email. Post as anonymous if you dont want to sign up, and then add your name, city, state and anything else you want in the comments area.

Thanks,

John Dent

Dad, I deleted your genealogy posts out of here and put them under Genealogy.