My Journey Towards Personal Responsibility.

Hey, what's up! 🙋‍♂️👋

How's it going, people!

So today I just wanted to share a brief summary of my journey towards personal responsibility. A journey that began sometimes two years back, and it is still ongoing....

Most of us are well versed with Uncle Ben's quote:

With great power comes great responsibility.

from the comic books Spider Man

Mark Manson in one of his books: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck comes up with, A better version of this quote, a version that actually is profound.

With great responsibility comes great power.

This is one of those quotes that I find hard to forget, I still can remember it though it is quite some time since I read the book.

Which brings me to 👇.

Personal Responsbility

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Shawn Jackson in his article Accepting responsibility defines personal responsibility as

taking ownership of your own behavior and the consequences of that behavior.

We all have had experiences which made us feel like everything and everyone was against us. We were the victim being attacked from all sides.
Everything feels like it is happening to us, instead of acting accordingly we react to life.

I remember the days when reacting to life and everything happening to me was my default way of living. I always complained about life being tough, people being unfair, family members being unloving...the list goes on and on...😊😂

Things were not so bad, but my perception made things seem way messed up,🤦‍♂️ school wasn't making sense, I had close to zero friends, my health was at it's worst. I never felt free, I was always worrying about something, which in turn messed up with my mental health a great deal. I couldn't seem to control anything no matter how much I tried, feeling miserable 😒😢was the new normal back then.

Thanks 🙏 to the internet and google, great content about people sharing their experiences with the act of being fully answerable for their actions, was easy to access. I invested heavily in reading books, and articles. With time I was able to re-define my new normal. The new normal being everything that I felt was wrong happening to me was happening to me because I had made a choice at some point.
I was responsible. I came to the realization that all I was good at was making excuses. It was painful but it was the truth.

I had to reprogram my subconscious, which involved lots of repetition and taking action and handling things that I was responsible for. I came to the simple realization that everything was on my hands, I could do anything that I wanted, I had total control over how I choose to perceive things.

But I also had to pay the price of taking things for granted before then. The reaction to my actions. I had learned my lesson.

Happiness is a side-effect of taking action and leading a more conscious lifestyle.

"Live for something bigger than yourself"

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.

wrote Viktor Frankl.

Great power is not what creates great responsibility. Instead, a great responsibility is what creates power.

wrote Benjamin Hardy, Ph.D.

What are your experiences with taking responsibility?

Stay safe, and live more consciously, also don't be too serious. 😂

Peace! ✌