Quotes about Accountability

Whenever someone in our family, even one of the younger children, takes an irresponsible position and waits for someone else to make things happen or provide a solution, we tell them, "Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).

Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Here are some examples of where you might be paying Trust Taxes or earning Trust Dividends:

The deposit is to make the expectations clear and explicit in the beginning.

Our meaning comes from within. Again, in the words of Frankl, "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law.

Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in writing the program.

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

He can only answer to life by answering for his own life.

I know this idea is a dramatic paradigm shift for many people. It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.