A few days ago,I was listening to 2 young secondary school pupils discuss a match in which their school was beaten. They both blamed the referee for their school’s loss. And I just thought to myself how all of us play this particular kind of game which I have chosen to call ‘the blame game.’
It was first played in the Bible in
Genesis Chapter 3. There, the serpent enticed Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.
Eve,on her own,enticed Adam,her husband. But when God asked who was responsible
for the disobedient act, Adam said it was Eve. Eve,on her own part, pushed the
blame to the serpent.
While you may be quick to blame the
first couple for leading the whole world into sin, remember you also play the
blame game. It’s always somebody who is responsible for your failures in life.
If it’s not your wife,it’s your kids,if it’s not your parents,it’s the
Government. Come on,wake up and take responsibility for your life. It’s so easy
to point accusing fingers at someone else but the real truth is,in the process
of pointing a finger at another person,you are pointing 4 fingers at yourself.
So,tell me,who is the person with the greatest blame? You, off course. And
because you’re solely responsible for your life, start challenging the
‘blame-another-person’ mentality, and get this essential mantra straight into
your head: “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me.”
Think I first saw this in Tough
Times Never Last,but Tough People Do, a classic by Robert Schuller. But
now, it resonates so powerfully. “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me.” You can
affirm this to yourself several times a day to make it a part of you. It has
such a liberating and powerful force. But tell me,why should I blame another
person for how my life has turned out to be? That means I have seeded the power
to control my life to a fellow human being. But,I refuse to do that. I will
take responsibility for my life. If I have ever made any mistakes, I will pick
up the pieces of my life and turn the tide in my favour again.
Yes,it’s up to me and no one else.
You see, a lot of transformation in your life occurs not because someone
else is different, not because their attitude got better, but because your
attitude improved. So, stop blaming others and make the change in attitude
begin with you.
* You are responsible for your life.
You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction… Life is really about
moving on – Oprah Winfrey.
* If you take responsibility for
yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams – Les Brown.
* The willingness to accept
responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs
– Joan Didion.
* Accept responsibility for your
life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else –
Les Brown.
* Responsibility finds a way.
Irresponsibilty makes excuses – Gene Bedley.
* The price of greatness is
responsibility- Sir Winston Churchill.
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