I want to challenge a paradigm—a deeply ingrained way of thinking about a word we know well: responsibility. For much of my life, if you had asked me what responsibility meant, I would have described it as a burden. A checklist. A weight I had to carry. Something I needed to do, accomplish, or...
The typical “handle your duties, do what is expected of you” as an employee, a son, a daughter, a wife, a husband, or a parent is an important aspect of responsibility, but there is another aspect of responsibility that I would like to focus on. I want to talk about what I believe to be our #1...
Dr. Edwin Louis Cole states that “Maturity doesn’t come with age; it comes with acceptance of responsibility”. Responsibility is about our ability to respond to circumstances and to choose the attitudes, actions and reactions that shape our lives. An infant enters this world responsible for...
