Personal Responsibility Essay
Personal Responsibility
Jermaine S. Brown Sr.
GEN/200 Foundations for General Education and Professional Success
June 03, 2013
Fernando Chavez
Personal Responsibility
For the past 20 years as a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Army I started out as a follower for the first three years. After that point, I had to become a Leader and take responsibilities for the good and the bad not only for myself but also for anyone appointed below me. Currently I must take my past success that I had in that portion of my life and take responsibility to ensure my college success. There are two reasons for practicing personal responsibility As noted by Ron Haskins (2009), “Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. But personal responsibility also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame.” This is my interpretation of personal responsibility and its connection to college success. Time management involves being able to alternate between different activities that a person participates during a certain time frame. In today’s society the average student is not primarily just a student. They are parents and even have full- time careers. A complete standard of trying to handle not only being a college student and developing a career can be difficult act. Successful time management will allow a college student not to stress out during this challenging time. I believe in the six P’s (prior planning prevents piss poor performance). Proper planning in regard with studies and personal life will become second nature of allotted time if evenly proportioned for any various tasks.
When students are enrolling in college, they need to practice personal responsibility. First they must be able to
Jermaine S. Brown Sr.
GEN/200 Foundations for General Education and Professional Success
June 03, 2013
Fernando Chavez
Personal Responsibility
For the past 20 years as a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Army I started out as a follower for the first three years. After that point, I had to become a Leader and take responsibilities for the good and the bad not only for myself but also for anyone appointed below me. Currently I must take my past success that I had in that portion of my life and take responsibility to ensure my college success. There are two reasons for practicing personal responsibility As noted by Ron Haskins (2009), “Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. But personal responsibility also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame.” This is my interpretation of personal responsibility and its connection to college success. Time management involves being able to alternate between different activities that a person participates during a certain time frame. In today’s society the average student is not primarily just a student. They are parents and even have full- time careers. A complete standard of trying to handle not only being a college student and developing a career can be difficult act. Successful time management will allow a college student not to stress out during this challenging time. I believe in the six P’s (prior planning prevents piss poor performance). Proper planning in regard with studies and personal life will become second nature of allotted time if evenly proportioned for any various tasks.
When students are enrolling in college, they need to practice personal responsibility. First they must be able to
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