Chapter Two
Accepting Personal
Responsibility
Accepting Personal Responsibility
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Adopting the Creator Role, Journal 3
Focus Questions
– What is self-responsibility?
– Why is it the key to gaining maximum
control over the outcomes and
experiences of your life?
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Personal Responsibility:
Is the essence of responding wisely to
life’s opportunities and challenges, rather
than waiting passively for luck or other
people to make the choices for us.
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You Have a Choice to be a:
• Victim – are people
that keep doing
what they’ve been
doing even when it
doesn’t work.
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• Creator – are people
who change their
beliefs and
behaviors to create
the best results they
can.
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Responsibility Model
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Mastering Creator Language, Journal 4
Focus Question
– How can you create greater success by
changing your vocabulary?
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Making Wise Decisions, Journal 5
Focus Question
– How can you improve the quality of the
decisions you make?
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The Wise Choice Process
What’s my present situation?
How would I like my situation to be?
Do I have a choice here?
What are my possible choices?
What’s the likely outcome of each
possible choice?
6. Which choice(s) will I commit to?
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Change Your Inner Conversation,
Journal 6
Focus Questions
– How can you raise your self-esteem by
changing your self-talk?
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