Personal Responsibility Is the Key to College Success
Personal Responsibility Is The Key To College Success
Garrett Keller
GEN/200
06-27-2013
Dr. Doug Millar
Personal Responsibility Is The Key To College Success
Personal responsibility is the key to being a successful college student. Being a personally responsible student will almost ensure your success throughout your life long goals as well.
Personal responsibility is a trait you either exercise or don’t and it has the ability to make or break your success in every aspect of your life. In this thesis I will prove how Personal responsibility not only affects you but everyone else around you either in a positive or negative manor. Taking accountability for your actions and learning from your mistakes is a solid definition of personal responsibility and is ultimately the key to achieving personal and professional goals. And finally I plan to show you how personal responsibility will guide me to be a successful college student and I will provide a plan of how I intend to stay focused and ultimately successful.
Personality is contagious and having a positive influence is not only going to make life better for you but for everyone around you as well. During my time of service in the United States Navy, I have been on many deployments with overwhelming workloads. The surrounding people’s attitudes had such an impact on the way I felt and thought on a day to day basis and in order for me to cope with deployment and stay on track with my mission effectively I had to not only constantly remind myself of how important my job was but mentor and be a positive influence on my fellow crew members to keep their spirits up. An optimistic person is more likely to exercise personal responsibility with pleasure. On the down side, if you are not careful you may notice yourself heading in the wrong direction or worse you may not notice at all. “Then pessimism increases over time. When this happens, we attract pessimistic people into our lives, and we usually don’t
Garrett Keller
GEN/200
06-27-2013
Dr. Doug Millar
Personal Responsibility Is The Key To College Success
Personal responsibility is the key to being a successful college student. Being a personally responsible student will almost ensure your success throughout your life long goals as well.
Personal responsibility is a trait you either exercise or don’t and it has the ability to make or break your success in every aspect of your life. In this thesis I will prove how Personal responsibility not only affects you but everyone else around you either in a positive or negative manor. Taking accountability for your actions and learning from your mistakes is a solid definition of personal responsibility and is ultimately the key to achieving personal and professional goals. And finally I plan to show you how personal responsibility will guide me to be a successful college student and I will provide a plan of how I intend to stay focused and ultimately successful.
Personality is contagious and having a positive influence is not only going to make life better for you but for everyone around you as well. During my time of service in the United States Navy, I have been on many deployments with overwhelming workloads. The surrounding people’s attitudes had such an impact on the way I felt and thought on a day to day basis and in order for me to cope with deployment and stay on track with my mission effectively I had to not only constantly remind myself of how important my job was but mentor and be a positive influence on my fellow crew members to keep their spirits up. An optimistic person is more likely to exercise personal responsibility with pleasure. On the down side, if you are not careful you may notice yourself heading in the wrong direction or worse you may not notice at all. “Then pessimism increases over time. When this happens, we attract pessimistic people into our lives, and we usually don’t
References: Johnson, R. N. (2003, March). Virtue and Right. Ethics, 113(4), 810-834. Mortensen, K. W. (2011). The Laws Of Charisma (Rev ed.). New York, NY: AMACOM.