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Please Be Accountable
Taking responsibility and being accountable for your thoughts, feelings, and actions matters in all you do.
Modern society hates to be accountable. But damn, do they love to blame.
President Babygate blames everyone for all of his shortcomings and inadequacies. Nothing is ever his responsibility, his doing, his fault — unless it makes him look good to his base.
From the top down it’s all about the “other” and placing blame while never being accountable or responsible.
It’s easy for all of us to place blame and not be accountable. We’re taught early on that someone is going to be “at fault” for lots of different things.
Accountability starts with you and me.
Nobody but me is responsible or accountable for the things I do — or don’t do.
There is nobody inside your head but you. Thus, nobody can make you do anything you don’t desire to do. Only you think and feel what and how you think and feel, and only you can take related actions.
When you practice being accountable for the things you think, feel, and do, you take ownership and control over them.
This can go a long way towards not just understanding yourself, but working with and…
