My parents have set certain standards for my brothers and I. We have managed to learn and answer to those standards. We will always to what is right and fight wrongs and be the best we can possibly be. I have had friends over the years who were not taught the same morals, ethics or personal responsibility. You can see a big difference between those of us who were taught to respect the personal responsibilities and those who did not. Being held accountable for your actions help you maintain highly respected personal responsibilities. Last Saturday I showed up to Fire Academy without shaving. I received consequences for not shaving. It was my personal responsibility to shave. I was being lazy and I now have to own up to my responsibility.
Personal responsibility is the obligation or willingness to accept the things needed to be done on a daily basis. When your actions are not complete, we need to be held accounhtable for those actions. Personal responsibility is an obligation to oneself. It is your individual duty to ensure your good character and behavior regardless of how you were brought up and what kind of conditioning you have received. Right versus wrong. Individual responsibility also includes being accountable for the degree and level of your health, wealth, success and happiness. It means putting a stop to blaming others and admitting and accepting that you are responsible for yourn own Personal responsibilities and this applies to everybody. Personal responsibility is huge in the fire department and in life as well.
You must accept personal responsibility for the mess and disorder that you have created in your life. Life always gives you the consequences related to your actions. Lack of personal responsibility will create problems, which will lead to those consequences, therefore, make good choices to begin with. Consequences are nothing