I think we all need something to stand for.
Don’t get me wrong; I am not talking about alignment. This isn’t a call for all of us to stand for one thing.
It’s just a call to stand for something.
Our body and mind need a purpose, lest we end up listlessly aiming for nothing and standing for nothing. We shouldn’t waste our creativity or ingenuity on nothing.
Nothing is too small or too large.
It just has to be something.
I don’t know when to take blame. What defines as good accountability?
Should I shoulder it if I feel that things could be better, would take it hurt me in any political situation I am in, could I just be the bigger man and take all of it all the time.
How does this translate with credit – if I take all the blame, should I take all the credit? There is a part of me that thinks you should take none of the credit and all the blame, but that only seems to work for quarterbacks and movie stars. In life it always seems to tilt the other way, people who move the blame and take the credit get further along.
Is that just the politics of the places I am in? Where do they take all the blame and none of the credit and move forward? Where is the accountability in people? I am deflecting – I should take this as a start of accountability.
There are different perspectives on all of this stuff, and as I read more into it there are more questions than answers. I don’t like that too much – I would love to have some things just laid out for me to follow (even though I suck at following directions).
Accountability isn’t something that I just want to read about, I want to understand it. Figuring that out will make a lot of the journey ahead much easier.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 