I am responsible to my employer… to show up on time because that is what is required to keep my job and to complete my work the way I’m asked to. I am responsible to my clients/customers… to serve them well according to what I told them to expect from me as a business or service provider. I am responsible to the people I make appointments with… to meet at a specific time and show up prepared to do my part because I said I would.
I am responsible to my creditors… to pay what I owe because I agreed to the repayment terms.
I am responsible to the local/state/federal government… to live by the established laws or experience the consequences of not complying with them because I chose to live where I do. Being responsible TO is to show up the way I want or need to because it’s important to me or because I said I would. I take responsibility FOR myself and I stay responsible TO others.
Responsibility: What we do, what they do
We show up for others in relationships, but we do not do for them what only they can or should do for themselves.
Remember the “I am responsible FOR my own” box above? We let others take responsibility for their own things.
We do not take responsibility for what is in someone else’s box. And we do not give away responsibility for what is in ours.
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