Take Responsibility For Your Life Today

The time of year has called upon us all to assume responsibility for our actions. We have learned that it is bad to take responsibility, but it is even worse to accept responsibility and then blame someone else when we have failed. It is a time-honored concept that when you accept responsibility for your own actions, you take responsibility for everyone around you as well. This does not mean that we are to blame for all others' actions, but it does mean that we must be responsible for ours.


When we assume responsibility for our actions, it is easy to deflect blame. For example, if you are in the service industry, and someone has been mistreated because of your negligence, it is easy to point the finger of blame at another person, say they had it to with the customer, and say, "Why me?" But you have also failed as an employer to hold yourself responsible for what goes on in your business. If you are like most people, you take personal responsibility for your own life, your family, your finances and so on. You would do the same for your family and loved ones.

Taking personal responsibility for your business and your life is important, but taking responsibility for your own life and for your family's life goes much farther. If you assume that you can take care of everything, no one will need to do anything, you will live a carefree life without any responsibilities. However, this is just not true. As humans, we are social beings, and the truth is that we have responsibilities towards those who are close to us. You cannot take responsibility for someone else's behavior, but you can take responsibility for your own behavior.

Taking personal responsibility is not self-explanatory, but it is an important concept. It is easy to assume that you can handle everything yourself, but the truth is that you cannot assume that you are capable of handling all things on your own. Most likely, you will fail at least some things in your life. Assume that you won't fail all the time. Assume responsibility for those failures, and learn from them. After all, you never learned anything if you continue to live with the assumption that you cannot succeed at anything.

Many people, when they first assume responsibility for their own actions and their own life, feel very guilty and inadequate. They often think that they somehow need to apologize to God or to their family in order to be accepted. This is not true. Life is filled with failures, and you do not need to make yourself feel guilty for every failure.

If you think that you need to be responsible for everything in your life, you are wasting your time. Nothing you ever accomplish is truly yours unless you work for it. If you spend all of your time trying to take responsibility for things, you will never truly be satisfied. Think about it, how will you ever be happy if you never take any responsibility for your actions?

The bottom line is that you have to take responsibility for your own life. You will never be completely happy until you learn to take personal responsibility for your actions. Nothing good ever comes from acting like a victim, and nothing bad comes from acting like an effective survivor. Learn how to act as both an effective survivor and an effective victim.


Take charge of your life today. Do something that will make you happy tomorrow. Look at the people around you who seem to have it all together. See what they have done to create the life that they have. Assume nothing, think nothing, and act on your dreams.