How To Be Responsible
A sense of responsibility is a very narrow road. It doesn't leave us free to do as we please. But as with everything else, the limitation we place upon ourselves provides our greatest success. Lincoln said that the nation could not exist half slave and half free. Neither can leadership exist half responsible and half irresponsible. So to be responsible we need to have a sense of responsibility, we need obedience, less material possessions, more work, be responsible for our actions, a peaceful attitude, and more potential. First of all, a great Canadian athletic coach once said, "that most people in and out of athletics were, hold-outs." What he meant was that frequently we don't invest ourselves fully in what we are doing. We have too many reservations about things. We go into our assignments with our fingers crossed, so to speak. We hold out on our enthusiasm and our determination and our industry. But when we hold out on life, the life holds on us. At all costs we should
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Approximate Word count = 687
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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