If you embrace responsibility it has
the power to transform your life. However many people run from it. To become
more productive, you must harness the power of this word. You are responsible
for how your life turns out. Without responsibility you will not amount to
anything. Just think of any activity, project or task given to a group of
people, you can only get results when someone is held responsible. Otherwise
the job will not be done.
Becoming responsible or
irresponsible is a choice. Let’s look at how the decision to become responsible
can impact your life and your job.
Responsibility is a
wake up call
Being responsible helps you to stay
focused, to do that task or project without your usual human desire, which
wants to pass the blame of failure or shortcomings to others. Responsibility is
a wake up call to step up and be held accountable. Deciding to be responsible
releases latent power inside. You may be amazed at how much you can achieve by
merely deciding to quit fooling around, and hold yourself responsible for your state
in life. Taking responsibility jolts you to the reality of the things in your
life that must change, if you would amount to anything in life or become worthy
to be reckoned with on the job.
Responsibility gives
you power to focus
The power to achieve your sole
purpose in life is released by choosing to be responsible. Things that you took
for granted before and blamed others for, now become apparent to you. Accepting
this revelation, gives you the zeal to assume your rightful place. It enables
you to stay focused, thus giving you speed to pursue those things, which you
hitherto shelved responsibility for. It enables you, to become a new person
determined to give your best, on any pursuit you put your mind to, as a result
of which you will succeed.
Responsibility makes
tasks seem light
Burdens that you would gladly
cast on others before your new found decision to be a responsible person, is what
you now gladly bear. Tasks that loomed large before, you now see as light. Your
new mindset, has given you a fresh perspective of where to put the blame, and changed
your thought about failure and tasks. Operating on this new way of thinking, enables
you to see tasks as honorable, and complaints as simply cheating yourself. You
have made a 360 degrees about turn, to accept your new reality whether good or
bad.
Responsibility doubles your
productivity and you enjoy tasks
The mark of a productive person
is to attack any task or project like a bulldog after a bone. In this frame of
mind, projects once started must be completed. Decision to attack projects like
a bulldog, doubles your productivity and you actually enjoy making a huge
contribution wherever you operate. Being held accountable for results, makes
you more creative, as you seek for ways of doing things better and faster.
Accepting responsibility, dramatically changes you completely. You have quit
the league of those that blame others for their condition in life, to those
that know that their destiny is in their own hands not in any person or condition.
Responsibility puts you
in leadership position
A leader is one that takes the
lead, and makes all decisions, and takes both the glory for any achievement or
the blame for any failure, to perform up to par. It might have been a team that
got the job done but where there is negative feedback, the leader gets blamed.
As you step out to lead, the
gravity of your choice and the heavy load of responsibility, are not lost on
you. In fact you welcome this new role with relish, as you take the driver’s
seat of your life and assume fool control of your destiny. Whether you go up or
down is up to you, as you are now fully responsible. When you step out to lead,
you experience a big mental shift, that tells you your former life of blaming
others for all your troubles and woes have finally melted away. You are a new man, flying free and unfettered
by vicissitudes of the times anymore. You are now a leader fair and square.
Responsibility earns
respect and love for you
Imagine if a person with a wrong mentality,
of seeing others as the cause of all their bad experiences in life, was made a Team
Leader that would be disaster waiting to happen. In fact whoever appointed them
would regret doing so as things unfold. The team members, just knows they were
on their own. If this happens, it will stifle ideas and advancement on the job.
But if a person, that assumes responsibility,
leads a team, the team knows he or she would assume responsibility for their
mistakes on the job, hence their zeal to do their best was a foregone
conclusion. The team leader would also earn their love and respect for really
being a responsible team player.
Responsibility facilitates
breakthrough ideas and advancement
An atmosphere of creativity is
unleashed when you choose to be responsible. You the leader, would find the best
and the fastest ways of getting the job done. As for your team, they become
more creative and more daring on the job. An atmosphere of ingenuity is
released where almost on a daily basis breakthrough ideas would manifest.
Because of the freedom given to your team members, to try new ways of doing
things under your able watch, they would give their best at all times earn more
profit and become more productive.
Conclusion
Leading is a difficult thing to
do when there is a disaster or crisis situation, but be rest assured that
taking responsibility is the most expedient way to become more productive.
Think about it, nothing good ever came without people standing out to be held
accountable for it. To become more productive in your life and on the job,
learn to live responsibly.
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