Transcript:
Hi there my name is Jeff Arthur with the Values Conversation, here today to talk about taking ownership for things I do wrong. We’ve been talking about a specific situation where a lady got herself in a bad way personally and professionally, wound up losing everything, holding the bag, worst case scenarios. But what happened with her as we talked last week, she isolated but when she came out of that isolation she came out attacking. She came out blaming everybody else about how no one had done this for her, and no one had done that for her and then talking about how whenever things went wrong with her about how no one had helped her with this and no one had helped her with that and she didn’t understand that she had pushed everybody away. People that had offered to help. I had offered to help. I had watched other people offer to help. She wasn’t having any of it but then she turned it around where it was all everybody else’s fault and never did actually take responsibility for the decisions that she made. In her own personal growth folks. As we’re personally growing and developing.
It is imperative that we understand that whenever we make mistakes we own the mistake. It’s our fault. I’ll take ownership of that. I won’t take ownership of others but I will take ownership of what I did wrong. But I don’t want to be blaming everybody. I don’t want to be talking about how they should have done something different. Maybe they should have. They probably should have. But I should have probably done something different too. Now I can talk about how they should have done something different or I can just focus on me. See it, own it, look for solutions and then get on it and do it. That’s the [inaudible 00:01:35] principle.
My name is Jeff Arthur with the Values Conversation. You can find out more about us online at TVCleadership.com.