Responsibility

Are you responsible with your talents? I once attended a conference where the guest speaker was a Holocaust survivor. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize. During his talk to the audience, he asked everyone a question that really has stuck with me and has really layed the foundation for me as a Servant Leader. The question was 'How will you cope with the privileges and obligations society will feel entitled to place on you?' As he was talking, he was really trying to guide the audience, and he shared his sense of responsibility that has stuck with me for many years and is a big piece of my foundation as a person a teammate and leader. Here is what he said:

"What I receive I must pass on to others. The knowledge that I have must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. Call it gratitude...To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.'

What a powerful statement and what a way to do your best to follow your life in this manner! Practicing responsibility will do great things for you. It will strengthen your talent, advance your skills and increase your opportunities. It will improve your quality of life during the day and help you sleep better at night. Not only will it do these items, but it will also improve the lives of the people around you. If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then realize that you are its author. Every day you have the chance to write a new page in that story. I hope this will encourage others to fill those pages with the responsibility to others and yourself. If you do so, in the end, you will not be disappointed.