A Responsible Person Means…
1. Knowing the willed future supersedes the logical future; I am not simply a product of my circumstances.
2. Processing my emotions through my brain before responding.
3. Finding a way rather than making excuses.
4. Putting signs in my life to help me remember to follow through.
5. Developing introspective and self regulating skills.
6. Making and keeping agreements.
7. Understanding and accepting that positive attitudes contribute most to my production.
8. Finding time even though I don’t have enough time.
9. Investing in learning thus enabling me to become autonomous.
10. Developing multi-faceted approaches in relating to people.
11. Demonstrate initiative when I observe needs.
12. Accepting responsibility for my failures.
13. Accepting that my capacity to make things better far exceeds my capacity to make things worse.
14. Finding acceptable solutions and strategies to problems while avoiding win lose situations.
15. If I am going to live my life on purpose then responsibility is the foundational value upon which everything else is built.
16. Growing one day at a time to do a little bit better than I did the day before.
17. Recognizing that there is nothing more powerful than the word “by”.
18. Recognizing that with each right I have, I also have a responsibility.
19. Being self-disciplined.
20. Acknowledging what I do, I do.
