
Self-Responsibility
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A New Look at Selfishness
Modern culture prizes selflessness and abhors selfishness, in effect setting the two against each other. But do we really aspire to be without concern for ourselves?
Are You Living in Sync with Your Values?
Quiz assesses alignment with one’s values primarily as they relate to work.
Are You Living with a “Victim” Mentality?
Times of stress can stir up the victim in all of us. This quiz helps identify if “victim” is too-often a part of one’s experience.
Codependence: What’s My Responsibility?
Codependency is a learned condition, which means it can also be unlearned. This article offers ways to begin.
Cultivating Serenity in the Workplace and Beyond
Cultivating serenity in the workplace may seem like a tall order, but its formula is simpler than one might think.
Doing the Right Thing: Issues in Integrity
Integrity is at the very base of self-esteem. When a person’s behavior contradicts his or her deeply held beliefs, it eats away at self-esteem.
How to Interrupt Negative Patterns
Becoming aware of how you create negative patterns in your life is the first step to interrupting them and establishing new, more positive patterns.
How Well Constructed Are Your Boundaries?
The poet said, “Good fences make good neighbors.” He was right. Good boundaries make life easier, reduce conflict and improve relationships. This quiz will help a person determine where his or her boundaries are healthy and where they might need shoring up.
How Well Do You Fulfill Your Needs?
How well are our physical, safety, love, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs being met?
How Well Do You Take Responsibility For Yourself?
Through its quiz format, this article shows how to take responsibility in sixteen different ways.
How’s Your Integrity?
Quiz assesses how well one is living according to one’s core values.
Life's Choices Aren't All Easy, But They Are All Yours
Life is about making choices, and making choices—even wrong ones—is key to self-esteem.
Recognizing Victimhood
Samantha doesn’t realize it, but there’s a victim lurking inside her.
Self-Responsibility Starts with an I
A lack of self-responsibility leaves a person dependent, impotent and victimized. He or she may blame others for problems while waiting for someone to come along to make things right. But no one is coming, and that is good news.
Taking Control of Your Life
Wanda wants to be promoted to senior management but has been told she doesn’t have what it takes to make the leap. Her thought: “I can’t control what others think of me.” So what can she control?
Tending the Fences: Setting Healthy Boundaries
Article teaches boundary setting by showing how a person might compensate for not having them set adequately.
The Danger of Conformity
Not all conformity is bad. However, this article looks at 4 ways it can be "dangerous," stifling you from living a passionate, authentic, inspired life.
Top 10 Things We Can Control
A wise person once said, “Focus on the ninety percent of life that is under our control and don’t fret about the rest.”
Top 10 Ways to Be Accountable
Keeping commitments that we make only to ourselves can be challenging. Here are ten ways to begin.
Top 10 Ways to Handle Adversity
We’ve all experienced difficult times in our work or home lives, often through events and circumstances outside our control. But like great trees, humans grow stronger when exposed to powerful winds. Here are 10 suggestions for dealing with the hard times when they happen.
Top 10 Ways to Take Charge of Your Life
10 amazing tips to help you take charge of your life.
When Your Buttons Get Pushed, How Well Do You Manage?
“Triggers” can exact a toll in every area of a person’s life. Through its quiz format, article teaches strategies for coping with these emotional reactions.