Leadership - Personal Development
Responsibility
Hmmm! What does it mean? Responsibility; the ability to respond,
Response-Ability.
The ability to respond to what?
To an action may be?
To a word, sentence or statement?
To a person or persons
To a circumstance or circumstances may be?
Respond to a situations, environment?
How about the ability to respond to ourselves?
Respond to the things we do - our actions
Responding to how we feel – our attitudes
Responding to what we know – our philosophy
You can see where we are going with this? Not yet! Hmmm! Not
yet right?
Readiness for all eventualities is the certificate graduation from Boys to Men and all blames is now on you. The buck stop with you
The Tortoise and the Hare
Okay! From grounds up.
We are either dealing with CHRONIC or ACUTE situations,
circumstance or events that we are either prepared for or we are not – Chronic;
Acute, right? I hope I am right here.
The man says, “it came up on me out of nowhere” that means
acute, he didn’t anticipate the outcome and he had to respond according to
instincts and reflexes. We cannot blame him for that. He still bears
responsibility on how he reacts though, how it affects him afterwards. That is
if he lives after that to tell about it and let the world know what happened to
him. See now, all that falls on him. He still was not prepared
Now a man goes through a mountain and steps off of a cliff
by mistake. He didn’t know it was a cliff, and he didn’t know the bottom was
further down, now he is dead at the bottom. He cannot tell his experiences, now
we have to make up his experiences and tell his story – sort of fill in the
blanks – Acute I say. You see he was not prepared and he is still responsible
for all that happened to him, and no one is going to be charged for what
happened to him
Ignorance is NOT Bliss
Before a man stepped off of a cliff and die, maybe live to tell about it; it is
still his responsibility to test the grounds in front of him, with a stick may
be – a walking stick will do or even any unshaped branch. People do it all the
time. I see less sighted people do that all the time at the metro stations, on
the sidewalks, crossing the streets, stepping over potholes, and climbing the
stairs.
The man knows how many huddles are lined up for him to jump
over, he has been practicing all these while for this day and here is this day
- Chronic. He lines up with the other contestants to run and go over these
huddles, and at the sound of the whistle, he takes off, runs the race, jumps
over the huddles and beats everyone to the finish line, and he takes the
trophy. Hoisting in the air, and thanks his coaches, everyone that was a part
of his preparedness and himself for doing what he was supposed. You see, that is
how it is done.
Being Proactive is the Key
A farmer anticipates and response to hunger by making ready
crops and preparing for the planting seasons. He plants his seeds in due seasons and awaits to harvest in the
due season.
The ability to respond to anything is just like that – how
prepared are you?
Don’t get me wrong, birds eats worm and the harvest could be
eaten by night locusts. That is what it is, we can do little about that but,
chances are higher that worm may escape and grow into adulthood and bear
offspring and that the locust may not come, or that they may find other persons
field and crop, and that they have been full before they get to your field. I
don’t know all these things – I don’t know these things, I don’t know how they happen
and some of them we cannot explain. It is what it is.
How prepared are?
To meet the challenges of life,
Accepting the challenges
Driving the roots deep
Becoming as strong and as possible.
Accepting everything that comes and making it into what you
wish to make it.
Attempting your best
Trying you hardest, thinking well, reading well, living
well, and struggling with it all.
That's called the challenge of being prepared. That's what
makes life worthwhile, that's where the value is - the struggle for high
ideals, to make something unique out of your life’s Acute and Chronic
challenges.
How prepared are you? How ready and how equipped and should you be? Most of all, how willing are you to develop the ability to respond to the
good, the bad and the ugly that are packaged as in -word, sentence or
statement; situations, environment; and most importantly, yourself. Yes! You
Let me hear from you
OJI
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