Gen/ 200

Personal Responsibility Essay

GEN/200

April 21, 2014

Lisa Schindele, MBA

In this essay I will be making points and giving examples of how to effectively accept the challenges of having personal responsibility and being a college success, one must be held accountable, shown to be committed, and having substantial time management skills. By doing so, you must command authority, creating a common ground of discipline of private life and school, accepting the positive and negatives consequences of your actions. My definition of personal responsibility is holding you responsible for becoming successful, being an example and motivation for self and others. Taking charge and committing to your current situations, being honest to yourself, keeping your word and achieving excellence. If you are able to perform and maintain your personal responsibility you can commit to any aspect of life's challenges.

I liked how Christopher Lakes said in his book Equality and Responsibility that “Instead of working backwards from the question of why responsibility matters to the question of what we are responsible for, perhaps I should have worked forwards from the question of what we are responsible for to the question of why responsibility matters. Instead of working backwards from the question of why responsibility matters to the question of what we are responsible for, perhaps I should have worked forwards from the question of what we are responsible for to the question of why responsibility matters.” So in order for me to hold myself accountable, first have to figure out my responsibly I know I have to remember all my obligations prior to deciding to further my education. I have to support, and I have to be apprehensive about the amount of debt I take on, and the decisions I make that may affect my family, being fully alert that what I am doing is to better myself to benefit my family. I offer ask myself what I do to keep myself on track. I make a...