Week Twenty-four - Full responsibility

What does "taking responsibility" mean to you? What does it look like in your life?

This is a quote from our Mission Statement:  

"We perform daily acts of spiritual courage by appropriate expression with full responsibility taken for those emotions ultimately leading to peace in our hearts, in our families, in our communities, in our countries and on this planet." 

What does that mean to you?
As you look at this topic this week, see if more and more occurs to you.

Week Twenty-two - What do you do with hurt feelings?

We all get our feelings hurt sometimes. We all do various things with that experience. Some of us excuse the other person but still have hurt feelings even though we don't let ourselves fully know that. We like the enlightened approach. Some of us are very vocal and let nothing pass. Most of us are somewhere along a continuum of behaviors.  

Each day this week you could work on some aspect of this experience.

• What is your strategy when someone hurts your feelings? Think of an example and write about it.

• How does it work for you? Are the results generally positive or negative? Write some examples.

• What do you feel like after the exchange occurs? Do this by using the things you wrote about in the previous two areas.

• What improvements would you like to make?

• Have you tried before to change? How has it worked out?

Week Twenty-one - Friends and Family

This week when you journal choose a different friend or person in your family and describe your relationship.

What aspects of this relationship do you like? What could be better?

Week Twenty - Significant Others

Write a bit about your relationship history. 

• How has your taste in partners changed as you have matured?

•  What recurring themes do you see over time? 

• What would you like to change?  
• Choose some aspect of significant other relationships to write about each day.

Week Nineteen - Decision Making

Some of us make decisions quickly and some of us take a long time. What type are you? This week look for some examples of decisions you've made quickly and some you've taken a long time to think about. 

How have they worked out in the long run? 

What is your best style to make decisions?

Week Seventeen - The Past

Think back to your childhood this week. 

• What events stand out? 
• How have they impacted your life today? 
• Choose a different one each day and see what conclusions you come to. Write about what you learned.

Week Sixteen - Self Acceptance

Living in a state of self-acceptance is a peaceful place to be. I know from much previous experience what it is like to not feel that much of myself was acceptable. I was pretty ok with my smile and I thought I must be fairly intelligent although I never seemed to make much of a success of anything and a pretty good mom.

Today, after many years of work on myself, I pretty much 'can do no wrong'. That does not mean I don't make mistakes or need to accept responsibility for them. It means that when I make them, I don't beat myself up or do other harm to me or anyone else. I accept. I learn. I move on.

Scary topic for many. Not so for others. 

• How do you come by self-acceptance? 
• What about yourself do you find unacceptable? 
• What are you motivated to change? 
• How might you do it?