Theme: Career Responsibility

Why Does it Matter?

Simply this.  To be sunk into the blame game is to believe that we have no choice or freedom.  When we blame externals, we relinquish control over our own lives.  We are stuck.  We cannot solve our problems and make progress.  We can get caught in the ever circling wheel of self-fulfilling prophecy.  We lose our freedom. 

Brian Tracy¹ counsels ‘the acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the adult from the child’.  A sobering thought...

How do I build Personal Career Responsibility?

Personal responsibility begins from the inside and moves outwards.   It starts with taking responsibility for our thoughts, choices, and reactions, only then can we be responsible for the circumstances that create our careers.

Clearly we can’t control everything. The global recession and its impact on the career marketplace, being just one, colossal example.  But what we can do is choose how we respond to it. 

Or in the words of Jim Rohn²; ‘You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of’.