Responsibility The second concept necessary for a long happy life is the concept of Responsibility. We are too quick to try to escape personal responsibility for our situation with life. How many times have you heard that "The System" or "The Government" or "Those Guys" or someone else is responsible and should be blamed, or sued, for some perceived transgression. It is a proven fact that individuals who assume personal responsibility for their situation and take action to move toward whatever or wherever they want to be are the happiest people in the world. This self determinism and the actions that flow from this mental decision are not without reversals and dissappointments but over the long haul of life enable us to reach that point where we have arrived at our desired destination. This destination. or purpose of our life, has been the subject of many books over time from The Bible to A Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. Robert Schuler, Norman Vincent Peale, Billy Graham and many others all have tried to suggest their ideas for our purpose. I submit each of us can define our own purpose if we consider the Three R's of Life and think and act in accordance with them.
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