The Importance of Personal Responsibility

According to Downing, author of On Course, when it comes to personal responsibility, there are two ends of the spectrum: creator and victim. A creator is someone who believes they have the sole responsibility for the outcome of their life, they understand that their actions have been ineffective, and strive to change them to “create the best results they can” (21-22). Though he uses different language to explain, Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of

Personal responsibility is greatly affected by social influence in today’s society. A&P by John Updike is a short story which exemplifies this belief. Social influence occurs when one 's emotions, opinions, or behaviors are affected by others. In this story, Sammy is a store clerk, tending to his personal responsibility of working and making money to support his household. This is later tarnished as a result of Sammy’s attempt to maintain an image, he has been socially influenced to quit his job. Three girls come into the store and interfere with Sammy’s work by their distracting bathing suit attire. Sammy’s attention is preoccupied by the sexual display the girls are making, their casual defiance of the stores standards ultimately affects Sammy more strongly. The store has a clothing policy that the girls are blind of. When the owner of the store asks them to leave, they look to Sammy in hopes that he will bend the rules of his job, to stand up for them. The perception of a man, who will do anything for a woman, is ultimately what Sammy desires. However, Sammy is actually presented as “Naïve, yet morally ambitious teen-age hero.”(Dessner, 1). He is placed in a position of choosing between keeping his job while ignoring social influence, and conquering his desired social standing while losing his job. Even though personal responsibility is far more important, social influences can often be too strong for a person to ignore

A lack of personal responsibility can cause many problems. Not only for the person who is making the choice not to take personal responsibility but for the people around them. One such example related to law enforcement could be if an officer with a department vehicle doesn't get the

“Moral responsibility requires autonomy or self-determination: that our actions are caused and controlled by, and only by, our selves. To use a slogan popular in the literature: We act freely and are morally responsible only if we are the ultimate source of our actions.” (3)

Responsibility to me is the passion that one must do what they know they need to do to succeed, because if they don’t they will never be able to do what they need to to take care of themselves. Responsibility is acting by yourself even if there is not direct incentive to do so because it is what one must do to succeed. When I finally became mature enough to understand the responsibility’s I had for myself and others that were apart of my team, I immediately changed my ways and my grades in senior year were over one whole grade point average compared to the two prior years. To be responsible in life is to be successful and if one can not be responsible in life then they will never reach their full

Being responsible refers to our ability to make decisions that serve our own interests and the interests of others. We first need to be responsible for ourselves before we can be responsible for others. In learning to be more responsible it is important that we know our limitations. It does not matter how smart we are, there is only so much responsibility that one person can handle at any given time. It is also important to remember that we are not responsible for thing that are out of our control, for example, how other people think and feel or how they react to ourselves or others. Sharing responsibility for both success and failure can lead to increased responsibility to oneself and to others. When you

The theory that I find true to the true nature of moral responsibility and its relation to human freedom and determinism would be compatibilism. Compatibilism is the claim that we are both determined and that we have moral responsibility (Lawhead 120).

The 20th century philosopher Emanuel Levinas, responding to the horrors of the Holocaust, considers our ethical responsibility to other humans as follows: “The Ego loses its sovereign coincidence with self, its identification where consciousness comes back triumphantly to itself to reside in itself…The challenge to self is precisely reception of the absolutely other…[T]he Other hails me and signifies to me…by its destitution, an order. Its presence is the summons to respond…To be Me/Ego thenceforth signifies being unable to escape from responsibility.” (“Signification and Sense” 32-33). What Levinas is trying to explain is an individual is a person, or human, by how others perceive that individual, thus an individual is ethically responsible for others as well as others to the individual or is otherwise a loss.

Personal responsibility to me means taking accountability for your own actions, Making a commitment and sticking to it. In order to be a success in college, you have to apply your life learned lessons to the equation, to balance both school and out of school priorities. Because You are responsible for the choices you make, you are ultimately responsible for your success. Becoming a master organizer and learning how to manage your time efficiently, will help you achieve your goals. Taking responsibility for all that happens while you are in college will help you prevail in areas, where you may have lacked confidence. Critical thinking and a desire to succeed will help you accomplish your goals.

In many situations in my life, I have been personally accountable for my actions. Every part of being who I am has something to do with morality. Being responsible and accountable for what I do is something I take very personally. It is a key point in my personality and a critical part of being part of the US Army.

Holding one’s self responsible for actions taken in a positive and negative light are to me, requirements of adulthood. Responsibility comes with being punctual in paying your bills, being at work ,

Accountability affects your everyday life without you even realizing it. At this point in our lives it is no longer a job but a part of life and a sign of responsibility. Another sign of maturity is holding yourself accountable for your own actions. If you are one of those people who goes around making excuses for everything you do, people will begin to lose faith in you, and in turn you will not only lose your credibility but their trust as well. After a certain point excuses become less relevant or believable and you are seen and/or treated as if you were lying. No leader likes the “It wasn’t my fault”, “I was gonna”, or “see what had happened was” guy/gal and you shouldn’t want to be him/her. It is always better to hold yourself accountable for your own actions, you will gain a lot more respect that way. Once again accountability plays a major role in the quality of your everyday life and the lives of those around you as well. Good accountability or a lack of accountability can mean the difference in somebody getting paid the right amount or even at all. It could be the difference of receiving a tax refund or paying the state more than what you owe. It could be your children returning safely from a field trip or sending out an ABB or Amber Alert. It could even mean the life or death of a friend whether you’re deployed or just downtown having a drink. Nobody knows how a lack of

Due to my recent troubles at work I have been counseled twice in the past several weeks. This has given me a lot of time to reflect at the way I have really presented myself in the Army thus far. I have not always been the best Soldier that I could have been during most of the time I that I have been in so far. Thinking about this does bother me, it means that I could be trying harder to get ahead and better myself as a Soldier and a person. Lets say for example I have been late to work twice in the past several weeks not only to include missing a pt formation altogether. I did this by not ensuring that i had met alo of my neds to ensure that i woudl wake up in the morning. But by doing

I am a dedicated worker, so I like to get in early to the office to allow me ample time to get all of the objectives on my top priority list for the day accomplished. A method that helps me see this through is listing my objectives (and create room to accommodate any changes or updates later) for the day to ensure that I have a clear picture of my deliverable. I understand the level of workload and pressure that comes with a personnel-related position so I always make sure that I do the high priority tasks first. Usually, when I have a lot of work to do with limited time, I break it up into blocks and allocate each block a certain amount of time. This gives me an idea how much time each piece is to take so that should there be challenges or delays along the way, I can still get quality work done in good time.

The natural world is our only habitat that is a biotic system which experiences much stress to an extent that it threatens to fail in irreversible and significant ways. Currently, most of the huge environmental challenges that confront people such loss of biodiversity, climate change, pollution, and resource depletion have similar emerging patterns. Therefore, numerous changes are required to restore and stabilize the natural world into its functional integrity. In order to address the challenges effectively, there is need to examine the wellsprings of human motivation, caring, and social identity. This factor plays a critical role in understanding our personal responsibilities towards the natural world.