Responsibility: The First Step of Learning

Ron McIntyreCertified Leadership Coach, Teacher and SpeakerTransformative Leadership Group

February, 2014

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How did you integrate “Reality” as a focus on learning into your life this past week?

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Responsibility: The First Step of LearningWho knows the story of Ted Williams? He was found on a street corner panhandling.

He was found and called the man with the Golden voice.◦The first attempt at recovery from cocaine

and booze was not successful:◦The second time it stuck, with a lot of

help.

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What happens? What happens when we don’t take responsibility?

◦ We can develop a victim mentality What is a no-fail environment? Causes us to focus on issues we don’t control,

Instead of those that we do?

◦ We can have an unhealthy perspective

of how life works! Life isn’t fair Comparison thinking

◦ We can engage in Blamestorming! Find an appropriate scapegoat, instead

of accepting responsibility.

◦ We give away Choice Control.◦ We eliminate any possibility for growth for success.

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Choice Options(sampling)

I choose to die. I choose to hate. I choose to deny. I choose to ignore. I choose to be right. I choose to be angry. I choose to fail. I choose to drift. I choose my

choices.

I choose to Live. I choose to love. I choose to believe. I choose to hear. I choose to relate. I choose to accept. I choose to

succeed. I choose to commit. I choose my life.

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What happens when we learn to be responsible? We take our first step in

learning.◦ The earlier the better.

◦ Learning keeps you young

◦ Learning helps balance

We see things in their proper perspective.◦ Taking responsibility does

NOT mean negativity

◦ Helps us understand that most losses are not permanent.

◦ Resilience aids in overall health

We stop repeating our failures◦ Everyone fails, but how do

we respond & bounce back?

◦ To win you can’t continue to attempt the same thing over and over.

◦ Failure isn’t the best teacher, neither is experience; only evaluated experience teaches.

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What happens when we learn to be responsible? We GROW STRONGER

◦ Looking fear in the face, makes us stronger.

◦ Focus on becoming the person God created us to be.

◦ Should be a daily exercise.

◦ Becoming Authentic requires accepting responsibility.

We back up our words with our Behavior

◦ Own your work, Sign it.

◦ Doe you have a signature attitude?

◦ Life is NOT a dress rehearsal.

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Chapter ThoughtsA victim mindset causes people to focus on what they cannot do instead of what they can do. It is a recipe for continued failure.

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“If life were fair, Elvis would still be aliveAnd all the impersonators would be dead.”Johnny Carson

“Those things that hurt, instruct.”Benjamin Franklin

“God asks no man whetherHe will accept life. That isnot a choice. You must take it.The only choice is how.”Henry Ward Beecher

Loses are inevitable,But excuses are Optional.

‘Every success I know hasbeen reached because theperson was able to analyzedefeat & actually profitfrom it in the next undertaking.’William Moulton Marston

Sign your work atThe end of each day.If you can’t do that, findA new profession.Jeff O’Leary

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When you are committed to learn, grow and improve, you

see everything as an opportunity!

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