COACH'S CORNER 
April 2008
"Responsibility"
TRUSTWORTHINESS, RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, FAIRNESS, CARING and CITIZENSHIP.
This month we will take a look at RESPONSIBILTY in regards to our moral and ethical development. In the area of character development, responsibility is a critical stage.
It is simply broken down into four areas: Accountability, the Pursuit of Excellence, Self-Control and Duty. When we truly internalize our responsibility to others beyond our immediate circle, we can then have success beyond anything we have imagined.
I challenge you to read this month’s installment as well as go back and look at what is shared with us about Respect and Trustworthiness.
RESPONSIBILITY
Accountability – (to be answerable for personal actions.)
- Accept responsibility for the consequences of your choices, not only for what you do but also for what you don’t do.
- Some people grow under responsibility….others merely swell. Which are you?
- You should do everything you ought to do.
- To think too long about doing something often becomes its undoing.
- None of us is responsible for ALL the things that happen to us but we are accountable for the way we act when they do happen.
- The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
- It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. We will be held accountable.
- You cannot escape the responsibilities of tomorrow by evading them today. You will be held accountable.
- Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the dickens underneath!
- Don’t try to sweep someone else’s porch until your own is clean.
- The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn’t hear the referee.
Pursue Excellence – (to go above and beyond that which is expected of one.)
- Success comes in cans; failure comes in cant’s.
- WORK toward a goal. After all, a wish for something is a desire without any attempt to attain its end.
- He who wants milk should not sit on a stool in the middle of the pasture expecting the cow to back up to him.
- In the race for quality, there is no finish line.
- Failure in people is caused more by lack of determination than lack of talent.
- No brook is too little to seek the sea.
- Falling down doesn’t make you a failure, but staying down does.
- Failure is success if we learn from it.
- If better is possible, then good is not enough – Mike Ditka
- It is O.K. to make mistakes, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, something is wrong.
- If a task is once begun, never leave it ‘till it’s done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.
- A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.
- Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Success has a simple formula – do your best, and people may like it.
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: catch that first limb and climb….or find a good, healthy acorn, sit on it and wait."
Self-control – (restraint exercised over one’s own impulses, emotions, or desires)
- If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
- The one thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid to begin.
- Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it.
- Be cautious. Opportunity does the knocking for temptation, too.
- Don’t count on "finding yourself." Your life is not to be found, it is not lost. It is to be created. - Michael Josephson
- You are not a dynamic person simply because you blow your top. Control your anger…do not let it control you.
- How can a person control his/her destiny if he/she can not control him/herself?
- Gossip is letting the CHAT out of the bag.
- A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- A temper is a valuable thing. Spend it, but don’t lose it.
- Life is like a piano – what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Duty – (moral or legal obligations….obligatory tasks, conduct, service or functions arising from one’s position in life.)
- Don’t be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond
- Your work is a commentary on your character.
- The only preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.
- Admitting mistakes is not a fault….failing to correct them is.
- Any country boy knows better than to slide into second base when playing baseball in a cow pasture.
- If you ask of life, "What have you to offer me?” the answer is, "What do you have to give?"
- Doubt your doubts instead of your beliefs.
- The good deeds we do live long after us.
- Problems are opportunities in work clothes.
- Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
- Ideas are funny things; they don’t work unless you do.
- It matters not what task you do on this earth, for all parts are necessary to make life whole. What matters is how you do your part.
- When there is work to be done, turn up your sleeve, not your nose.
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