February 7. 2008

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Personal responsibility those two words seem to be fading from regular use these days. It seems that when ever something bad happens, most of the people I know always find someone else to blame for all their woes, and it doesn’t matter what it is about be it love or business or any one of countless events in their lives

If you want to succeed in what ever your passion is, you have to take responsibility for all your actions, you will make mistakes and more mistakes, if you don’t accept personal responsibility you will be certain to fail, all the people that have made it, realize they will make mistakes and they learn from them. If you continue to blame others for your failures, then I feel sorry for you, you have given up any hope for success.

Do you teach your children to take full responsibly for their actions, or are you one of those parents that always blame someone else when your child gets in trouble, be it with the school, friends or the law.

The problems with our children, the gangs and getting pregnant at 15 or even younger, the total disregard for human life, drugs, you name it. I see the parents blame the television, the video game, their friends, even their teachers, what happened to teaching them to be good citizens of this great country. I grew up in the 60’s so I understand rebellion, but I wouldn’t have done the things I see kids doing every day, the total disrespect for others, “The you can’t tell me what to do.” And the parent backs down. I realize that there is a fear out there of what others will say, or the law will become involved, I am not saying beat them, but developing a line of commutation with them will fix most things. Don’t give them everything they want make them earn it. An old saying keeps running through my head and that is “You get what you raise.”

The one thing I do know is this, if you can’t take responsibility for yourself, and your actions, then you and all your offspring will be destine to failure