Personal Responsibility: How to Take Back Control of the Results You Achieve
Maureen Considine
Personal Responsibility… is one of the most powerful topics and one of my favorites.
Because most people don’t understand it for what it really is, once they do the changes can be dramatic.
What does personal responsibility mean to you?
When I first heard this term, personal responsibility, I thought to myself, Yep, I get that. Then I heard the description of what it meant and I was not so sure. In fact, I discovered that I was way off. Most people have a misunderstanding of what it means to be responsible and have many limiting beliefs wrapped up in it.
The true meaning is… each of us is personally responsible for every thought, feeling, action, and then result in our lives! For every thought you think. For every emotion you feel. For every action you take. For every result you get in your life!
In addition, your thoughts determine your actions and your emotions affect your actions, which in turn create your results. It’s so powerful because it means that you are in charge of them and you can change any of them that are no longer serving you.
It can take some time and effort to get this, to a place where your results become more in line with what you want to create.
First, your understanding of what it means to be personally responsible for everything in your life needs to be corrected into its true empowering meaning. This means recognizing that only you control your emotions, actions, thoughts — and, therefore, your results.
Next, applying it to your own life is also required, and it’s not always easy. My clients experience significant resistance here, often without even realizing it. I help them shift their thinking and approaches toward their business and any other area of their lives where they need a reset, so that they regain control over their results.
Read on for what one of my clients experienced and recently shared about this very topic…
“My most recent retreat with Maureen was very powerful and helpful. My revenue and number of clients had dropped recently after many consistent months of growth in each area. I did not understand why this was happening, or how to change it. I came to the retreat looking for these answers. I expected to find some subtle tweaks to make to turn my results around. What I found was something much greater.
Maureen helped me see that there were several ways I was not taking personal responsibility for my results, even for my life. I had reached the limit of where my current understanding and level of personal responsibility could take me. To go farther I had to change. And it wasn’t just in the realm of business. This theme was showing up in my parenting, my personal finances, and my relationships. Maureen helped me to see what was needed, and we created very clear steps for me to take once I got home to get my results back on track in all of these areas.
I am thrilled to report that within four days of getting home I received a $56,000 payment and am on track to have my best revenue month ever in my business. Not only that, I am also taking action in all the other areas that I’d been avoiding for years and am seeing amazing results there as well.”
Do you take complete responsibility for what is in your life, or do you direct it outward at other people? Even other circumstances or conditions?
Maureen Considine is Founder and CEO of Finding Your Way Coaching. A Master Coach with expertise in Income Acceleration, Business Development, Sales and Mindset, she is the Wealth Health Creation Strategist for entrepreneurs, executives, and other high performers. Maureen has over 25 years of experience in sales and marketing. She has helped hundreds of clients grow their businesses and reach their true potential using her unique, intuitive, and holistic approach. Maureen has a B.A. in Psychology, with training in mindset and the Psychology of Sales.