Taking Responsibility

There are so many times when it seems just more convenient to pass the buck and blame anything else for why our life is the way it is. We can blame the weather, our kids, our spouse, the job, not enough, sleep or exercise...... you get the picture.
Is this a conscious decision or are we being led to believe that its just the right thing to do.

So why am I even harping on this tonight ? Well I just spent an evening with a group of people who have created chaos in their lives...have a lot of negative consequences and are spending an hour explaining to me that I don't understand....they are not responsible. When offered helpful suggestions they decline...they don't want to be boxed in..they want to be free. Taking responsibility for their actions and doing something about it would be to restrictive and they want to be free.

Well guess what?? The real freedom comes in taking responsibility for your actions and their outcomes in your life. When you take the responsibility you can ask for help and accept it. You can change or decide not to at this time. Why because you don't have to get permission from anyone else. You are the one taking ownership. Not the kids, the weather, the wrong job, not enough sleep etc. etc. You actions or lack of them create your own very special outcome.

Why do we want to give our power away? Why are we so afraid to take responsibility?
Have we been handed a preprinted list of things to use to shift the blame by society?
It's important to know where and why we are giving away our ability to take responsibility and resort to blame. If we don't we are going to end up being held hostage and waiting for someone else to rescue us. Is that what you really want? I don't