Accountability

Sometimes we are in positions we feel we can't get out of. Positions we have grown accustomed to. Positions we let slide one too many times, to the point it's not only uncomfortble on the right side, but also on the left. I have been in several positions since '05. Five years later, I have gained the reins and took full control. For the first time in my working career, someone who has known me for only one day, told me, "You would be great in a leadership position!" Not that others haven't noticed, because they have...

Accountability: the quality or state of being accountable; especially : an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions (Mirriam-Webster).

The events that occur in your life are based on your scale of accountability. If you allow nothing but positive things in, then that's the outcome you will receive. Yes, there will be those slip-up moments, but the return or reward is good! You have to be responsible for the actions of life. You cannot feed into the negativity. If someone approaches you with nonsense about a matter that they can gain control over, do like I do. Shut it down before it takes place! It's your own guilt if you don't appreciate me addressing the issue, but understand that I cannot be drug into the madness. I cannot suffer when I don't have to. I cannot progress if you are indirectly undoing the work I have put in. Not all things that put a pause in your life are negative. Sometimes you need those to slow you down, because you are moving too fast to really take in what's being played. It could also mean there needs to be some type of adjustment, because you aren't moving at the pace that you should.

I have gone through a major transformation over the course of a year +. I've dealt with a lot of bull that didn't have to happen. As I got fed up, it began to surface. I started shutting down, and not showing the true bright colors that make me, me! With the new changes in my life, I have already seen where I can go, and my possibilities are endless. I even indirectly stated that today. I've even learned that people say things because they've never been told shut up. Not hush now, or shhh...SHUT UP! STOP! LISTEN! UNDERSTAND! NOW HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CHANGE THIS?! I've learned that people live life based on assumptions and because they think they know how to read a book, they don't need to finish the remaining few chapters, because they've already drawn a conclusion. I'm no one's Cliff Notes. I've learned that people never look in the mirror, even though Micheal Jackson made a song about it (and last I checked, everyone listens to him). Despite what everyone else does, I shut up, I listen, I give feedback, I act on constructive criticism, and I take the time to ask and thank Him for holding me accountable for the things that I encounter on a second by minute basis.

Three wise monkeys...