Personal Responsibility
Kathleen Donovan
Gen/200
October 13,2014
Kristine Faultner

Personal Responsibility
Personal responsibility is the ideal that a structure of set behaviors should be employed by one’s volition to hold one’s self accountable in daily life to meet personal, fiscal and educational tasks to successful completion. These behaviors have a rule governing the consequences due to action or inaction by the individual. Consequences are either positive or negative in nature regardless of being personal, educational or work related. Throughout daily life, we all have obligatory responsibilities as well as self-imposed responsibilities. It is often heard that someone would rather point the proverbial finger for their failures toward someone else or some outside cause. In truth, as individuals, personal responsibility is accepting the outcome of either a good or bad decision and learning from it. In matters of business and family, issues arise, and decisions are sometimes unclear. These may be due to an unhealthy family bond or strained relationship. At times, people tend to make poor decisions with their emotions rather than facts or the weighted measures for outcome. As people, we at times tend to fail to see the long projected outcome over a short term goal. In matters of finance, one must not take on a greater financial burden than one can bear. Dr. Muir’s article sites an excellent demonstration of a person that had great examples of personal responsibility regarding education, but poor responsibility when it came to the matters of finance. Dr. Muir’s article point out that “Tim” had poor personal financial responsibility. This matter can be detrimental to one’s career and domestic situation. “When he had arrived in Washington, Tim realized that he had prepared himself in every way but one. His finances were a mess, and that closed many