Quote for the week
“When you have turned all the corners and at last run into yourself, then you’ll know you have turned all the corners there are.”
~ Langston Hughes
TimBit
There is a significant difference between being responsible to people and being responsible for them. Being responsible for people is when you feel responsible for another’s outcomes, pain, failure, feelings, problems, struggles, adversity, and need satisfaction – as well as their success, joy, achievements, and growth.
Being responsible to people means that you know that what they are experiencing in life – whether struggle or victory, pain or success, growth or stagnation – is what they have brought into their life in order to move to a higher plain. Responsibe to – is love in action. You are there, you care, and you are interested; but in the end it is their stuff, not yours. If they are continually in victim mode, consider this worthwhile insight: “Seeing yourself as a victim is to wish your circumstances to continue.”
Feeling responsible for people means that you are partly responsible for all of their struggle, pain, adversity, problems or adversity. Being responsible for – is to live from fear.
Question
Who do you feel responsible for?
Reading
Seriously, It’s Not You, It’s Me, Fariba & Lyon
Copyright: 6/2010 – Tim Connor, CSP