Personal Accountability

Picture By Nick J Webb

What does it mean to have personal accountability?  Personal accountability means that it is never “them,” or “they,” or “you.”  Contrary to common “team based” approaches, it is also never “we.” Personal accountability is simply, “ME,” “MY,” or “I.”  If we use one of these words, it spurs us toward action instead of complacency, blame, or procrastination.  The questions quickly go from, “why won’t they stop doing that?”  To “how can I help with that.”  ”What is my role in this problem?”  Our world consistently tells us that everything is someone else’s fault.  Our bipartisan world is quick to point fingers at the other party or the 1%.  The truth is we must stop pointing fingers at other people and being pointing at ourselves.  Things will never improve, things will never be where we want them to be until we begin to focus on what we can do, and at the end of the day the only thing we can truly control is what we do.

Save the shoes

Sometimes we feel we are treading water, or worse sinking.  We work, strive, sweat and strain, and it all feels like it is for nothing.  Take a moment and heed some advice from a volunteer firefighter!  

Conflict, Arguments, Fights…

Very few people LIKE conflict, if you do, then we may need to do some testing.  Despite the fact that we do not enjoy conflict we continue to engage in it.  Sometimes it is unavoidable, sometimes we we think is unavoidable,  but a majority of the time conflict is the result of miscommunication, hurt feelings, and faulty presumptions. Conflict should be an opportunity to learn, increase insight, or perspective. In the end however conflict often deteriorates into a form of this…

How do you approach conflict?  Is it an opportunity to learn? Or do you simply want to win or be heard?

I know you can believe in yourself

I know you can believe in yourself, and so does this young man! BTW applies to more than just riding a bike—just sayin’!

212 Degrees, just a little bit more can go a long way

The greatest show of all time…

Richard Anuszkiewicz – Orange, Rose and Magenta Knot (1986)”]

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Perspective, we lose it, we gain it, we shift it.  Our perspective is constantly changing.  The way we saw things as a child, are not the way we see them now.  The Dukes of Hazard was the best show on television, it was life changing, awe inspiring, and from a very early age, I refused to miss a single episode.  My parents love to tell the story of me throwing a tantrum around the age of 3 or 4 because I was going to miss the Friday night episode of “The Dukes.” A strange thing happened about 10 years ago, they began replaying old episodes of the Dukes of Hazard.  I sat down to watch the show that shaped my childhood memories, only to find that other than the theme song (still a classic), the show was not as good as it used to be.

Let’s be clear, the show had not changed.  George Lucas did not get a hold of the Dukes of Hazard and digitally enhance the General Lee. I, on the other hand, had changed. I had grown up, the world around me had changed, and my perspective on the Greatest Show of All Time had changed.

Oftentimes our perspective changes as we change.  There will be times when our world begins to crumble around us and we begin to experience the deepest lows; or you feel on top of the world and that things can never get any better.  In those moments, when you are looking back years, months, days or even hours later, you may come to the realization of just how minute your perspective had been.

There will be highs, there will be lows and the difference between the two is often just a matter of perspective.

HOPE

HOPE…so elusive…here one moment gone the next…but ask yourself, was it ever really gone in the first place?  What is the source of your hope?  Where does it go when you have “lost hope?”  When you think you have lost all hope, sometimes we look to others to give us hope…but do they really give us hope?  Or do they remind us of the hope we have simply forgotten?

How do your core values play out in your daily life?

Whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not, we all have a governing set of rules and beliefs to which we hold firmly, dearly, desperately.  We have all heard the expression “rotten to the core.” We do not start off “rotten” we slowly begin to rot away for a variety of reasons.  Maybe we spend a considerable amount of time neglecting the things that are important, maybe we slowly become so obsessed and consumed with ourselves and meeting our own needs. Regardless of the reason, if we begin to rot away and this goes unchecked, the damage can be far-reaching and long-lasting.

The question then becomes, Who are you at your core? Where do you place your emphasis? Time? Money? It’s not too late. Begin today by doing a little bit of a taste test—are you who you want to be? Are you where you want to be? If you aren’t satisfied with your answers to those questions, then maybe you are starting to rot.

I’ll show you how great I am…

What’s with the name?

We are in the business of helping others: work towards future, by learning from the past, while utilizing EVERY moment in the present.

All too often we put off for tomorrow what we could do today, and many times our best intentions or resolutions fail because we do not fully embrace the moments and the opportunities that we have every day.  MyFutureMyTimeNow is intended for us to begin to take personal ownership of our future by driving, pushing, striving, towards our purpose every single day!