How To Be Responsible
A sense of responsibility is a very narrow road. It doesn't leave us free to do as we please. But as with everything else, the limitation we place upon ourselves provides our greatest success. Lincoln said that the nation could not exist half slave and half free. Neither can leadership exist half responsible and half irresponsible. So to be responsible we need to have a sense of responsibility, we need obedience, less material possessions, more work, be responsible for our actions, a peaceful attitude, and more potential. First of all, a great Canadian athletic coach once said, "that most people in and out of athletics were, hold-outs." What he meant was that frequently we don't invest ourselves fully in what we are doing. We have too many reservations about things. We go into our assignments with our fingers crossed, so to speak. We hold out on our enthusiasm and our determination and our industry. But when we hold out on life, the life holds on us. At all costs we should
In Conclusion, there are two levels of responsibility. On one level, being responsible means not doing irresponsible things. On a higher level, it means doing all that one can do, becoming all that one can become, developing all that one has. The highest form of self-discipline is reaching-reaching for the best that is in us, and sometimes even reaching for more than is in us. A person who achieves and succeeds, both within himself and within his world, undergoes a certain transition at an early point in his life. He changes from an ordinary, average person, reacting to life as it comes day by day, into a person who designs his own life, who decides to step out, to lead, to become what he is intends to be and to do his best in all areas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ avoid being a holdout and focus on having more responsibility. There was a great quote by Wendell Phillips that said, "responsibility educates." Next, most of us have too many material possessions. As
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