Personal Responsibility XXXXX XXXXX Gen/200 September 20th 2012 Mr. Hawkins Personal Responsibility Essay Introduction
As we think about it what is personal responsibility? Is it doing the right thing or action even when no one is watching, how difficult can that be? Can it apply to all facets of our lives? For example how many times have we seen someone drop trash on the ground just feet or even inches away from a trash can and he or she look at and keep walking away? By simply applying this philosophy it will tie in our self-discipline and social responsibility that makes us continue to strive for improvement. It promotes self-discipline, self-direction and focus that come from personal responsibility; this is one of the driving forces that continue to push us to achieve our personal, professional and educational goals. Self-efficacy is a key component when dealing with responsibility and success, it’s a person’s capability to organize and execute the courses of action that will assist him or her to achieve goals and success.

The direct relationship between personal responsibility and college success is crucial and requires a good amount of time and effort. This relationship is vital to overcoming the ground work necessities of researching any and all class assignment and other requirements. These requirements are not limited to the class room only, they reach out to the day to day necessities that we run into and must deal with to be successful. By accepting and understanding the duty of our personal responsibility it will stimulate motivation to succeed in many aspects of our education and career paths. In order for us to accept personal responsibility we need to develop the ability to seek out and to accept help for many other resources such as fellow students, teachers and family members these assets or contacts could open new ideas or concepts about how personal responsibility can be applied to many situations.
Brockett and Hiemstra (1991) proposed the personal responsibility orientation (PRO) model of self-direction in leaning, they conceptualized these views as complementary and related. Personal responsibility is part of self-direction which also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame.
Broekett and Hiemstra (1991) stress personal responsibility as the connection or central concept for understanding self-direction as it is represented and described in their model. They stated that by personal responsibility we mean that individuals assume ownership for their thoughts and actions. Personal responsibility as it relates to study skills, is taking charge of one’s own learning. It’s the choice we make based on are desire to achieve or succeed. By putting in the needed extra hours of study and research time or not, this act will shape the outcome of are student careers with good or not so good results.
Michael A. Diamond, Seth Allcom (1984) Wrote, personal responsibility is used in the model to refer to a person's owning and taking the blame for his or her actions and their consequences. This requires people to have mastery over their work; otherwise, they cannot assume responsibility. It must be understood that personal responsibility depends both on control over one's work and mastery of their personal life outside of work or school. If one is unable to make the decision to take responsibility, then they may or may not be success with their collage carrier, working careers or even day to day life outside of these two careers. Brockett and Hiemstra (1991) define the self-directed leaning component as a "process in which a learner assumes primary responsibility for planning, implementing, and evaluating the leaning process. Self motivation is very important when it comes to the action of completing assignments on time, studying for tests, taking the responsibility for one’s own learning mistakes, and performing to the best of your ability. To be an effective student we must have and maintain a useful education strategy. There are many ways to organize are student carries, each of are very different so what works for one may not work for anyone else. Here are a few examples; by setting up a daily and weekly schedule with time lines of class participation and a homework completion schedule. This will allow us to include daily, weekly and monthly mile stones to outline and complete are short and long range goals. There are lots of ways to outline are plans, pocket organizers, calendars, dry erase boards, most of us use one or all of these items to map out are course of action, at the end of the day it comes down to what works for you and can keep us on are path to educational and career success. Another key component to education success is an individual’s ability to communicate effectively. Effective communication can emphasize his or her own interests, desires, and needs. To convey to our follow student or faculty clearly involves making informed decisions by researching are questions before asking them and taking responsibility for those decisions. It involves knowing your strengths, weaknesses, and goals not allowing others influence to sway your decisions. As a learner, it can become important for you to speak to other students and your teachers to share opinions, debate a position, disagree with a statement or request special consideration to support our decisions. Conclusion In conclusion, although it is a easier course of action is to blame others for our failures and our mistakes that effect us as students and are educational goals. Ultimately this course of action is not the best ways to do business when it comes to are education and day to day inter action with others. It is because if we choose to use personal responsibility our self-direction and a learning direction that we will be able to, and achieved our goals of having college success. By following this philosophy it will led us down a path that will not stop with a successful education, it will carry us into a winning career. By applying personal responsibility it sets up the foundation to have a clear understanding of the influence of are learning teams and what we expect from our education as well as what we expect for our future successes. As students we will continue to strive to accomplish every goal that we will set for ourselves in my personal life as well as the goals I will set for myself as a student.

References

Adult Education Stockdale, S. L., & Brockett,Rr. (2011). A measure of self direction in learning based on the personal Responsibility Orientation Model. University Of Phoenix library.
Summary of reference: Self-Direction is and has been a major and part of learning and will continue to be. The introduction of personal responsibility orientation (RPO) establishes the framework of self-direction and learning self-direction are the building blocks to this idea. The article sheds light on the importance that personal responsibility plays in education.

Organizational Dynamics, Michael A. Diamond Seth Allcom (spring 84) Psychological Barriers to Personal Responsibility . University of Phoenix Libratory.

Summary of reference: This article focuses on the barriers we have with personal responsibilities with reference to employees in relation to management. We as managers or supervisors work on developing employees by assigning more responsibilities in the work place. Some take the added responsibility where others do not, managers how understand these relationships between managers, supervisors and employees may have less issues dealing with the questions of personal responsibility.

Article. Jake Lawson (2011). Accepting Personal Responsibility. www.livestrong.com
Summary of reference: This article provides the means and process to evaluate the level of personal responsibility and how to best determine the way to use or apply your personal responsibility at which level you choose to use with the least amount of questions and work sheets.