Take Responsibility.

All you need to do is take responsibility if you want to go on to the next level in life. You must be prepared to take on something more, possibly more challenging. For instance, you can start each day with a reflection on this question: “What good can I do today?” It is a really significant question. You get better as the days go by the more aware you are of this. As a professional, you will move higher up the career ladder the more responsible you are. In fact, your advancement is directly connected to your sense of responsibility.

But then, you must improve yourself continually. In addition to being willing to do a thing, you should actually be able to do it. Therefore, you must build up your capacity. It’s important to continually seek new skills and information. Nobody will trust you with something that you can’t perform well.

How much responsibility you can take now will determine where you will be in the near future. It is not rocket science. So, you should reevaluate yourself if you stay too long at one level. Why do you gripe about your income each month? Well, you cannot possibly jump higher. Be that as it may, you can climb one rung of the ladder. You would be able to progress gradually, step by step, one step at a time, even with limited resources.

How You Could Take Responsibility – Practical Illustrations

• Meditation has not lost its power and never will. For this reason, you ought to be responsible enough to exercise your mind every day. Preferably do this in the morning. You are most alert in the early hours. Your thoughts are calm. The day’s events have not yet had any impact. Thus, you are free to think independently. Moreover, it is your first duty of the day. Therefore, when you continuously practice daily meditation, you are also forming a strong habit of taking responsibility for anything else. Giving yourself over to deliberate thinking helps you generate ideas. You believe in yourself more. You also tend to be happier. It allows you time to reflect on your previous thoughts, words, and actions. Meditation is one of the activities whereby you become a better version of yourself. Given these facts, you owe it to yourself to meditate every day.
• Look for opportunities to serve. Service is not bitter. Actually, it is one of the quickest paths to success. Based on your talent, you could provide free services to some influential people, like your boss, your pastor, or maybe a senior friend. You benefit from service by winning their goodwill. You can’t expect to succeed by isolating yourself from high achievers. Come up to them. Do some tedious tasks for them which they lack the time to do on their own. Just identify a good deed you can do, regularly. It could be as simple as washing their cars. They will hold it in high regard. You demonstrate responsibility and humility by doing this. They will gladly divulge their success secrets to you in return. Don’t let pride rob you of your destiny.
• You can use your services as a foundation to start a business. Hence, you should be sensitive enough to recognize business opportunities wherever you are. You could amass great fortune by providing a solution to an evident problem in a given area.  And it won’t just be you who will benefit from it. By doing this, you will be able to hire other people. Although starting a business is difficult, not having one is more challenging. The failure of a government to provide jobs for its people is irresponsibility. Similar to this, it is irresponsibility to oneself to constantly complain about being unemployed. In the end, you’ll realize that running your own business will be more satisfying than having a job.
• Learn, learn, and learn. You should be aware that you alone are responsible for your achievements. Without a doubt, ignorance limit men. So, you must continue learning if you want to stay relevant. If you want to be held more responsible, you need to demonstrate competence to a greater extent. For instance, let’s say you desire to be a tech or computer programming expert. And you only know HTML and CSS? How do you intend to advance beyond using tags and styling elements? In fact, you won’t make much money even if you find a job. If you plan your career well, you will find fulfilment, including financially. With this in mind, aim towards the top in your profession. There are people ahead of you in what you do. So, create connections, get knowledge from them, and advance as well. If you are an accountant, seek to be a chartered one. Pay the price. Several people are earning more money by doing “the impossible.” Do you know what makes them different? Undoubtedly, they have greater obligations. They devote more time and mental effort to extremely challenging undertakings. 

Do you find these challenging? You should begin to take actions towards self-actualization. It takes a great deal of responsibility. Always remember this: you are either responsible or you are not.

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Prosper T. Nwankwo is a Nigerian writer with well pronounced talents. Content writing is one of his strong suits. While blogging professionally, Mr. Prosper maintains his interests in technology and real estate. He publishes for My Air Xperience and other websites.