Tuesday, March 26, 2013

How to Eliminate Certain Excuses and Take Responsibility by James Malinchak

By Rubin Price


To achieve more in your life, you have to take control of your decisions and actions. It is time for you to take responsibility for how you react to the consequences of decisions you have made. This means that youhave to eliminate excuses. Observe that I am not implying that you be responsible for the effects? That is because we aren't always accountable for these consequences since they are often dependent upon other people's methods along with our own. We cannot take responsibility for something that somebody else does. However, what we can do is control how we react to them.

It is easy to blame someone else for the fact that you didn't get the advancement you might have wished for this last time. However, instead of making excuses that reflect negatively on the person who did get the promotion, look at yourself and how you can take responsibility forbeing overlooked this time. Then, make sure it doesn't happen again. Perhaps enroll in a course which will give you an edge next time, or take a greater interest in company matters.

Account honestly for your day. Instead of whining that you did not get a report finished on time, look at why you did not finish. How much procrastination about the report did you do instead of just getting it completed? What have you completed? What did you do that did not need to be done, which sidetracked you away from the report? Take responsibility to make the decision to do this daily.

Taking responsibility is about accepting that you made a decision that put you in this situation, and now you need to learn from it so that it does not happen again. It is not about punishing yourself for what you do not achieve. Learn time management techniques. Become assertive with how you allow others to control your life. Take that sometimes things usually do not go according to plan, but if you can take responsibility before moving on, learn from these situations, and eliminate excuses, then you are still ahead of the game.

Ultimately, people pardon you when you could not control situations, however, they'll revere you if you looked ahead steering clear of the circumstances to begin with. My cousin, Davy Tyburski, often quotes Smokey the Bear. He states that we need to look in order to avoid wildfires. Exactly what are the wildfires in your life or your job? How could you plan ahead to prevent them from happening in the first place? Once you tackle these issues and prepare yourself to stop them, you will come out the hero in lots of situations avoiding the need to get rid of the excuses because they never occurred to begin with.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment