What is responsibility for you?
2007-02-08 05:59:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Responsibility means:
Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life.
Accepting that you are responsible for what you choose to feel or think.
Accepting that you choose the direction for your life.
Accepting that you cannot blame others for the choices you have made.
Tearing down the mask of defense or rationale for why others are responsible for who you are, what has happened to you, and what you are bound to become.
The rational belief that you are responsible for determining who your are, and how your choices affect your life.
Pointing the finger of responsibility back to yourself and away from others when you are discussing the consequences of your actions.
Realizing that you determine your feelings about any events or actions addressed to you, no matter how negative they seem.
Recognizing that you are your best cheerleader; it is not reasonable or healthy for you to depend on others to make you feel good about yourself.
Recognizing that as you enter adulthood and maturity, you determine how your self-esteem will develop.
Not feeling sorry for the ``bum deal'' you have been handed but taking hold of your life and giving it direction and reason.
Letting go of your sense of over responsibility for others.
Protecting and nurturing your health and emotional well being.
Taking preventive health oriented steps of structuring your life with time management, stress management, confronting fears, and burnout prevention.
Taking an honest inventory of your strengths, abilities, talents, virtues, and positive points.
Developing positive, self-affirming, self-talk scripts to enhance your personal development and growth.
Letting go of blame and anger toward those in your past who did the best they could, given the limitations of their knowledge, background, and awareness.
Working out anger, hostility, pessimism, and depression over past hurts, pains, abuse, mistreatment, and misdirection.
2007-02-08 06:14:32 · answer #1 · answered by CHERI * 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To accept personal responsibility, we must first define responsibility. It is very difficult to develop an adequate ability to accept responsibility without a preliminary effort to define responsibility. As a therapist, I have always identified with gestalt psychotherapy. One of the basic tenants of gestalt theory is that one must take personal responsibility for one’s life. Fritz Perls, the father of gestalt therapy, often rewrote responsibility as “response-ability." By this he meant that a basic given in life is that we all have the ability to personally respond - “response-ability." Because at the end of the day, the truth is this - only you can move you, only you can feel you, only you can live you and only you can change you. Only you can define responsibility for yourself. It’s when you lose sight of this basic, elementary fact that you feel the most lost and hopeless in the struggle for personal responsibility.
2007-02-08 06:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by niesy l 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For me responsibility is that something that you have to take as the result of all actions you did in your own life.
For every action there is a reaction. Basically we bring about our own creation or our own undoing. It's all up to us whether we want to create or to destruct.
2007-02-08 06:34:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Responsibilty for me is knowing when something is your duty or your right, and then taknig the necessary actions to complete those duties or rights ..everyday really...its like basically saying "this is my place to do this or that, and if even i dont like it, i have to do it, so im going to". Responsiblity can be tough...but its a part of life, so usually you just have to try your best to keep going. Responsiblity though, isnt just about carrying out the obligations your assigned to, so to speak, its also about knowing when you have to be a good example, or when you have to stand up for what you think is right.
Just my opinion though.
2007-02-08 06:28:58 · answer #4 · answered by Jaded 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is defined as a duty or obligation to satisfactorily perform or complete a task (assigned by someone, or created by one's own promise or circumstances) that one must fulfill, and which has a consequent penalty for failure.
2014-12-19 15:32:33 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I had to choose one word, it would be accountability. A person who is accountable for their actions is a responsible person.
2007-02-08 06:08:24 · answer #6 · answered by Super Ruper 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Doing the job. Taking care of matters on my own. Living up to expectations. Being independant. Doing what is expected of you in life.
2007-02-08 06:05:00 · answer #7 · answered by Nunya 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Responsibility: Choosing to do what you need to do
that is responsibility for me
2007-02-08 07:33:12 · answer #8 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being able to know that you did everything humanly possible every day to make yourself a better person. This means making yourself educationally, financially, and emotionally accountable for what you do.
2007-02-08 06:08:13 · answer #9 · answered by heynow 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Doing the best you can and leading by example.
2007-02-08 06:28:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋