Lacing In The World Today Research Paper
What’s Lacking in the World Today?
GEN/200
November 17, 2013
Phaedra Graham
What’s Lacking in the World Today?
The measurement of a person’s level of success mostly depends on the amount of personal responsibility that is applied. Personal responsibility determines most, if not all, of life’s outcomes. Lacking personal responsibility in finances, the work place, and the home life can result in bad consequences. As a matter of fact, personal responsibility is a major, contributing factor of college success. Unfortunately, over and over again, people tend to blame others for their own failures instead of accepting their own involvement. However, if more people would begin to take their responsibilities seriously and accept them, …show more content…
Personal responsibility is the capability to accept and live by a standard set forth by society. Personal responsibility includes the self discipline to accept one’s own actions and the consequences those actions may return. Personal responsibility also means that when a person fails to meet a goal, they first look at them self to determine what could have been done to better meet that goal. Taking this approach keeps an individual from looking around for any reason to blame someone other than them self. According to the Personal Responsibility and Career Success (2011) article, Chris Widener points out, “We must take responsibility for our life and understand that we can, and will, achieve whatever we ourselves choose to” …show more content…
In the process of earning a degree, practicing personal responsibility can be achieved by staying motivated to accomplish long term goals. A good plan would be to look at one’s self and determine all responsibilities, such as studying and maintaining good grades, which are needed in order to have college success. Realizing that failures and successes, while in college, depend on if one is able to accept fault instead of making excuses. Robinson and Smith (2012) state, “Responsibility can be developed through such practice, including critical dialogue, at the heart of the learning
GEN/200
November 17, 2013
Phaedra Graham
What’s Lacking in the World Today?
The measurement of a person’s level of success mostly depends on the amount of personal responsibility that is applied. Personal responsibility determines most, if not all, of life’s outcomes. Lacking personal responsibility in finances, the work place, and the home life can result in bad consequences. As a matter of fact, personal responsibility is a major, contributing factor of college success. Unfortunately, over and over again, people tend to blame others for their own failures instead of accepting their own involvement. However, if more people would begin to take their responsibilities seriously and accept them, …show more content…
Personal responsibility is the capability to accept and live by a standard set forth by society. Personal responsibility includes the self discipline to accept one’s own actions and the consequences those actions may return. Personal responsibility also means that when a person fails to meet a goal, they first look at them self to determine what could have been done to better meet that goal. Taking this approach keeps an individual from looking around for any reason to blame someone other than them self. According to the Personal Responsibility and Career Success (2011) article, Chris Widener points out, “We must take responsibility for our life and understand that we can, and will, achieve whatever we ourselves choose to” …show more content…
In the process of earning a degree, practicing personal responsibility can be achieved by staying motivated to accomplish long term goals. A good plan would be to look at one’s self and determine all responsibilities, such as studying and maintaining good grades, which are needed in order to have college success. Realizing that failures and successes, while in college, depend on if one is able to accept fault instead of making excuses. Robinson and Smith (2012) state, “Responsibility can be developed through such practice, including critical dialogue, at the heart of the learning