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you’re doing, inhale and let the oxygen calm you It’s time to establish your authority through re- MINUTE MOTIVATIONAL
and consider the effects of your options on your- sponsible thoughts and actions!
self and those around you.
References:
Take responsibility for your own choices/deci-
sions. It’s usually easy to take ownership when DeMarco, P. (2016) Three lessons on leader-
things go right, and praise is being handed to you ship and responsibility from ‘It’s a wonderful
on a silver platter. But, not so much for when life’. Forbes. Available at: https://www.forbes.
they go wrong. Change your perception of ad- com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2016/12/22/
mittance to errors, from one of weakness or in- three-lessons-on-leadership-and-responsibili-
competence to strength and learning. And don’t ty-from-its-a-wonderful-life/?sh=5f58307c4bd8
even think about trying to preserve your self-im- [Accessed: 29 November, 2022].
age by averting the attention away from the fact
that you were wrong; it defeats the purpose of
accepting responsibility and people see right Calvello, M. (2022) 7 ways to take responsibility
through it. You may end up hurting your reputa- as a leader. Fellow. Available at: https://fellow.
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app/blog/management/ways-to-take-responsibil-
Repetition here, therefore, is imperative to en- ity-as-a-leader/#:~:text=A%20responsible%20
sure this becomes second nature. This sounds leader%20is%20one,the%20issue%20on%20
like a Norman Vincent Peale quote, so I’ll go the%20table. [Accessed: 29 November, 2022].
right ahead and paraphrase him - repeating these
thoughts and actions build habits and once re-
peated enough, they become your natural reflex.

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