STEPS TO BUILDING A POSITIVE PERSONALITY

 Step 1: 

Accept Responsibility

 "Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them." --Elbert Hubbard

 When people accept additional responsibility they are actually giving themselves a promotion. Responsible behavior is to accept accountability and that represents maturity. Acceptance of responsibility is a reflection of our attitude and the environment we operate in. Most people are quick to take credit for what goes right but very few would accept responsibility when things go wrong. A person who does not accept responsibility is not absolved from being responsible. Our objective is to cultivate responsible behavior. Responsible behavior should be inculcated right from childhood. It cannot be taught without a certain degree of obedience.

 Stop the Blame Game

 Avoid phrases such as:

• everyone else does it,
•  or no one does it, or 
• it is all your fault.

 People who don't accept responsibility shift the blame to their parents, teachers, genes, God, fate, luck or the stars. 

Johnny said, "Mama, Jimmy broke the window." Mama asked, "How did he do it?" Johnny replied, "I threw a stone at him and he ducked." People who use their privileges without accepting responsibility usually end up losing them. Responsibility involves thoughtful action. Pettiness Causes Us to Ignore Our Responsibilities 

Think about it. Petty minds are busy passing the buck rather than doing what needs to be done. 

Social Responsibility 

Ancient Indian wisdom teaches us that our first responsibility is to the community, second to our family and third to our-self. A society starts degenerating when this order is reversed. Social responsibility ought to be the moral obligation of every citizen. Responsibility and freedom go hand in hand. A sign of a good citizen is that he is willing to pull his own weight. 

The price of greatness is responsibility. --Winston Churchill 

Societies are not destroyed by the activities of rascals but by the inactivity of good people. What a paradox! If they can tolerate destruction by being inactive, how can they be good? The question is, are they discharging their social responsibility?

 For evil to flourish, good people have to do nothing and evil shall flourish. --Edmund Burke