Joshua Griffin Case

Gen 200 Week 5: Final Draft

Joshua Griffin

Personal responsibility

By understand what personal responsibility is, what the relationship is between personal responsibility and college, and develop a plan to keep yourself personally responsible it will help pave the road for your success throughout your duration of college. You can come up with many excuses on why you are not successful in college. At the end to be successful in college it comes down to you, and you alone to be personally responsible for yourself. The definition of Personal Responsibility is a set of behaviors that emphasize accountability. This means you are in charge of yourself and your success in college. You are the only one who can earn a degree; no one else will earn it for you. You need to take responsibility for your actions, do your work with integrity, be honest with your mistakes, take pride in your accomplishments, and always strive to do your best.

Personal responsibility has a relationship with college success, and you cannot be successful in college without taking personal responsibility for your own success. It is important when you start college that you develop this relationship between the two. You cannot have one without the other. When you become personally responsible, you hold yourself accountable for all your studies in college. You turn your homework in on time, you do your readings every week, you study for tests, you do the research for your studies, etc. By doing this you are displaying personal responsibility and creating a path for your own college success. Owning up to your mistakes is one of the biggest things about being personally responsible. One of my favorite quotes by an unknown author is Taking personal responsibility for every aspect of your life, owning it just as it is, is a privilege not a punishment.

Hold yourself accountable for your mistakes. You need to own up to any mistakes you make and seize every mistake as an opportunity to learn from. Most people do not care about the mistakes you made, or any excuses you have to why you made it. They care about how you resolved the problem that caused your mistake ("Positive Inspiration Today",2006-2013). Time management is an instrumental key to being successful in college. Time cannot be increased with hard work. When you manage your time during the week you can increase the quality of activities performed each day. Because it is critical to acquire time management skills are developed at a young age in life and especially before you start college