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100 % Responsibilty

I am constantly utilizing Jack Canfield’s book The Success Principles.  What an amazing resource for self-improvement.  One of the first concepts shared is the most basic, yet the most challenging.  He says, “In order to achieve major success in life – to achieve those things that are most important to you – you must assume 100% responsibility for everything.”

This means giving up all excuses and changing your response in the future.  It means giving up blaming and giving up complaining.  At first look this seemed simple, made sense, yet I had difficulty with the idea that 100% responsibility means that everything I have experienced in life, everything that has happened me, I either created or allowed.

This is very challenging when I looked at several situations in my life such as the loss of my parents.  My initial reaction was, “Certainly, I did not create or allow those to happen.”  But, after much more reading and contemplation I realize now that I do have a great deal of control and responsibility in how I react and respond to situation. 

So, how does this relate to teachers?  Take a look at your classroom and your life.  What are you struggling with? 

You are 100% responsible.

How can you change your actions to get a different result?

Is there a class you can take?

A book you can read?

How does how you are to others bring about their reactions to you?

What did you do or not do to achieve that result?

Try it on.  Own it.

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