Personal responsibility is the root to your professional and educational achievements.
What personal responsibility means to me is taking control of your own actions and doing things when you commit to them. Taking personal responsibility of your own life and your goals. College success and personal responsibility go hand and hand. Without personal responsibitly you cannot succeed in college. Hayward said it best; “Take responsibility for your own education. It’s time to cut out the excuses and get down to work. Lofty dreams of a good life and success don’t cut it-honest work does. While others can provide you the tools, nobody but yourself can guarantee you’ll succeed.” (Hayward, 1992) Using the tools provided to you like setting up goals both long term and short term can help you have college success because it is your own responsibility on how you achieve those goals to succeed. Without holding yourself accountable to your actions weather its good or bad, you will not succeed in your college career. Without personal responsibility there is no one to make you succeed. Only you can do that and have to want to. I feel that personal motivation is also a key factor in personal responsibility and college success. If you are not motivated to succeed then what is the point in holding yourself accountable when you fail? You are already failing by not wanting to succeed. Wanting to succeed helps drive you to achieve those goals you set and help you better yourself by accomplishing them. Without motivation there is no true success. My plan to practice personal responsibility throughout my college experience is first to own up to my mistakes and make the appropriate adjustments to better succeed. Second is to set up a better time management plan and hold myself accountable to it. Third is to finds ways to keep me motivated throughout this long college process. By giving