How much of your success would you say is up to you—your choices, your actions, your behaviors—versus outside conditions?

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2.  Responsibility: “Responsibility is not
something you do; it’s a way of thinking
and a way of being.”
 Accountability: “Accountable people put a
‘who’ with every ‘what.’”
 Self-empowerment: “Take the actions and
take the risks that you need to in order to
ensure that you achieve the results you
desire.”
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3. • Don’t leave your success up to anyone or anything
else – Own it! (100%)
• The shift in mindset to own responsibility is quite
worthy. It will help you to
-Get things done more effectively with less stress
-Feel a sense of accomplishment in your job
-Develop more stronger and positive relationship
-Improve personnel productivity and satisfaction
-Change your organization or your family for the better
• Too big a leap? Start at 85 percent -That’s a mind-
set that will help you improve your life so vastly
that you will strive to be 100 percent responsible.
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4.  Taking total responsibility for our self job and
relationship and behavior; is the key to
avoiding unpleasant outcomes.
 Responsibility- It’s a blessed thing when all goes
well, but a curse when nothing’s going right –
Even truly responsible people accept the
responsibility for the failure too. So have a plan
B
 All we have got is what is. Deal with what is.
So live on “Planet What is”
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5. • How much of success is up to you and how
much of it is determined by outside condition
• Obviously making a major life change is that
not easy i.e. 100-Zero or even 85-15; we have to
shake some behaviors and words that might
not be so simple to let go.
• Get off planet guilt , bore deeper. You’re in for
a surprise.
• Finger-pointing and blaming is unnatural
because figuring out whose fault it is won’t get
the work done.
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6.  Being responsible means there’s no fault, no
blame, and no guilt.
 Being responsible doesn’t mean things go well
every time. Rather, it means we’re committed
to continually improving.
 In order for a team to be successful, each
member of the team must be equally
responsible—100 percent—for its success. One
person can’t be responsible for another (All for
one, one for all)
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7.  Accountability is a personnel willingness to answer for
the outcomes; whether it is good or bad, produced by
your choice & actions
 If a person is really accountable he will not change his
mind once he realizes that he made a mess
 If you accept consequences of mistake consistently, you
will feel good about yourself, and the people around
you will feel good about you, too
 When you are accountable you close that gap between
what you say you are responsible and what you do
 Accountable people take the glory when their choices
result in happy ending and suffer the consequences
whatever they are if they cause problem
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8.  The three prongs of accountability are;
 Personnel responsibility - before the fact
 Personnel accountability – after the fact
 Self empowerment – taking risk to get the result
 Five key behaviors / principles of accountable
people
 Are absolutely clear about what they expect from others and
what others expect of them
 Make clear agreements
 Establish ownership for every task- “who” with every “what”
and always know by “when”
 Keep to timelines and meet their deadlines if that is not possible
they renegotiate before the due date
 Focus on result
 Count the people who live with this 5 principles – very few!!
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9.  The 10 steps of every agreement are
1.Decide on the goal, task / objective
2.Brainstorm the need to do activities to accomplish the goals
3.Fix the owner for each item on the list and the deadline
4.One member to be keeper of the contract and updater
5.Status should be updated if at all someone is not able to attend
the meeting
6.Make arrangements with the group in advance if it looks like you
won’t be able to meet the deadline
7.Its okay to renegotiate the agreements during a progress report
8.Self management and keeping agreements
9. If agreements are not being kept, it is up to the individual group
members to figure out and seek the help of manager to mediate
10. This process works for agreements b/w individuals as well as
among team members
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10.  Have a clear picture about the project that we
undertake
 List every thing we will do to complete and
clarify by when
 Fill out a clear agreement form
 Accountable people practice 85% solution- they
know that they alone are responsible for their
success and failures & they always focus on
result
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11.  The 4 Questions that accountable people asks
are
1. What is the problem?
2. What am I doing or not doing that is contributing
to the problem?
3. What I will do differently to solve the problem?
4. How will I be accountable for the result?
 Accountability is very crucial to the success of
any project, organization or relationship and
will make an efficient work out of even a
complicated chore
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12.  Empowerment is what we do to ensure the
achievement of result by taking action and
facing risk
 The only one person to empower you is
yourself because empowerment comes from
within
 Mantras to self empower are;
 Realize that my results are consequences of my choices
 If it is to be, it is up to me
 Step out of my comfort zone
 Keep focused
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13.  The extend to which you are responsible is the
extend to which you are empowered
 If you live at 100-0 or at least 85% solution, the
people who relay on you can predict how you will
react when things don’t work out
 Our behavior talk clearer than our words
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14.  Unless and until you feel that you are
responsible for the project/work; nobody could
assign responsibility to you since it is a way of
thinking and being.
 We are 100% responsible for our careers and
future since we are having the 100% power to
manage the same. So recognize your power.
 While saying “Yes”, we must be very clear
about the fact that whether we are unwilling to
say “No” or it is a “Yes”.
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15.  Always sharpen your personnel talents
which will give you the edge.
 Don’t tell Lie because nobody is going to
believe, not even you.
 Personnel accountability can make life easy
and at the end of the day it will give you a
good sleep!
 If you accept consequences of mistake
consistently, you will feel good about yourself,
and the people around you will feel good about
you, too
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16.  When you are accountable you close that gap
between what you say you are responsible and
what you do
 Being right always or being effective /
successful is important? – obviously to be
successful for a stress free life
 The only one person to empower you is
yourself because empowerment comes from
within
 Its always good to be receptive to new ideas or
try things other way around to fix the problems
rather than proving your partner guilty – Don’t
live in a planet of guilt!
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17.  The natural order of things is to try, see how it
turns out, learn from our mistakes, and figure
out how to do better, try again, and succeed –
perfect world
 Let’s live in a perfect world. Let’s live on Planet
What Is.
 Be responsible for the success or failure of
everything you undertake .Take the ownership
– Say , “I Own this”
 Be accountable for your actions. Demonstrate
your willingness to answer for the outcomes
that result from your choices, behaviors, and
actions, without fault, blame, or guilt.
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18.  Empower yourself to succeed. Take the
actions—and take the risks—that you need to
in order to ensure that you achieve the results
you desire.
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19.  No Excuses: Being Accountable for Your Own
SuccessBy: Linda Galindo
Last updated 11/14/2014

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