9 reasons to be personally responsible and much more successful.

Regardless of who you are, where you come from, your skin color, your sexual orientation, your gender you can achieve great success if you’re willing to make the sacrifice.

Success doesn’t discriminate despite efforts to convince us it does.

Once we succumb to the rhetoric of limitation, we exchange personal responsibility for empty promises.?That exchange is fatal for people with big aspirations.

In the process we surrender personal responsibility for promises predicated on arbitrary parameters that need to be neutralized for us to succeed.

Offering someone else unlimited access to our ambition postpones the hard work and personal responsibility required for success.???

Regardless of how many doors are opened, how fair people attempt to make life, how hard people petition for what we deserve, there’s only one way to guarantee success, and that’s to claim it.

Here's the irony, once we get it, maintaining it is the real achievement.?

Run away from complainers that believe the world owes them a favor and let's get busy using discipline and personal responsibility as a way to apprehend our true potential.?

"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". Jim Rohn

9 reasons to be personally responsible and much more successful:

Fortify relationships

When we take personal responsibly, we improve relationships. We earn trust and become accountable for our actions.?People learn to depend on us, and that has positive implications in our personal and professional lives.?People with healthy relationships are responsible for their actions and understand great relationships don’t happen by accident.

Communicate

I am amazed at how many people love to complain instead of pouring themselves into becoming better communicators.?By learning to communicate we leverage the power of language.?When we learn to become articulate and persuasive, that has incredible power.?Take personal responsibility and learn to be an extraordinary communicator.?

Improve compassion

By taking personal responsibly we gain empathy and compassion.?Hard work and humility have a remarkable way of helping us appreciate the struggles of other human beings.?This epiphany obviates selfishness and inspires a spirit of generosity.?Kind and compassionate people get much further in this life.?

Eliminate blame

This is paramount.?By taking personal responsibility we refuse to allow the rhetoric of blame and outrage dominate our vernacular.?People that believe their blame is justified have surrendered to the difficult challenge of being exceptional.?Their alternative, blame and rely on a myriad of excuses to validate their outrage.?Life is tough.?Life is unfair.?The road to success is challenging for everyone.?????

Extricate complaining

Need any additional proof.?Listen to the people that spend their life lamenting about life’s “injustices”.?Their arguments are often based on the assumption that life will be great once life becomes “fair”.?In the interim, precious energy is wasted complaining.?Giving people what they feel they deserve is never the answer to build a better human being. Complainers are never satisfied; they only demand more.

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." William Shakespeare

Refuse to be a victim

There’s nothing less appealing than someone that embraces being a victim.?Each of us has our own mountain to climb.?For some, that mountain is steep.?Really steep.?You can wait for the helicopter to take you to the top or embrace the pain of making the assent.?There’s no question the view is much better when you endure the pain.?A victim refuses to take personal responsibility for facing the facts of personal improvement and the pain of progress. ??

Don’t delay

Once we take personal responsibility, we stop procrastinating.?We set goals, act on our dreams and refuse to wait around for lame politicians to rectify our grievances.?Putting off our chance for success will endanger our dreams and ensure “outside circumstances” must be "ideal" before progress can be made.?Good luck.?Don’t make what’s already incredibly difficult even more challenging.??

Authenticity

Developing an authentic voice requires complete commitment.?That demands defining our values and working toward living a life of purpose driven by passion.?That takes serious work and requires personal responsibility.?

Doing what’s required is what separates successful people from dreamers.?To become true to ourselves demands full commitment and we can’t depend on anyone else to do it for us.?

Discipline and persistence

Discipline and perseverance are at the core of any success story.?The work is unavoidable and short cuts never pay.?When we whine and complain, lose hope, we ensure failure.?When we take personal responsibility, we learn to embrace the pain of self-discipline and appreciate the importance of persistence.?People that lack personal responsibility make excuses for why success isn’t “available” to them.?????

"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on." Opray Winfrey

Sum it up

Any other benefits to personal responsibility you can add??Share your thoughts in the comments section and please like and share this article. I love learning from you as well.

About Steve:

Steve Wohlenhaus is CEO of Weatherology, the leading company in the world at disseminating audio weather information.??Steve began his career as a major market television weather anchor in Minneapolis, where he received several Emmy Awards for science programming.?Steve is an author and host of the podcast program Anatomy of Success.?Reach out and connect with me on LinkedIn.?Learn more about my work and grab the free Weatherology mobile app by clicking any picture in this article!