Why is it that people now-a-days feel no sense of responsibility for their actions? Go have random sex with people and end up pregnant or get someone pregnant, and abortion or deny deny deny, and you're off the hook (unless Maury proves, "You are the father"). Live a decadent life of excess (food, alcohol, drugs, etc) and there's surgeries, and by-passes, therapy, and the ever popular, my parents didn't love me enough when I was growing up. And that's just the most popular excuses that you hear of all the time.
Now I'll admit, I'm guilty of taking in some excesses of food, and one of my fav's good old fashioned American Coca-Cola, and nothing is better washed down by a Coke than a nice fat juicy BBQed hamburger with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, ketchup, mustard and the occasional mayo as well, but c'mon people, lets use our head a little bit here.
When your boss or supervisor says your shift starts at 8, that doesn't mean 8:15 or 8:10 or even 8:01, it means 8:00. If you come in at 7:59, great you have a minute to breathe before starting, but if you do a job that's 8am-5pm that doesn't mean 8:35am-4:55pm (factor in an hour for lunch). It's called having a responsibility to your job and meeting it, for yourself.
Now on to the big fish. I think by now we understand that Obama The Magnificent (or does he go by The Great now I keep on forgetting, next he'll be a symbol and known as the politician formerly known as Obama) inherited a deficit, but does that give him a pass to spend at free will. When the money gets tight at home, you're not going out for steak every night, or even lobster. You're probably going to be shopping at discount stores and staying in every night. Which is what we as a country need to be doing currently, becoming penny-pinching, stretching every dollar as far as it'll go (as if it were made on silly putty). It's rather irritating to see the massive spending being proposed under this administration. Yes all of this can be placed back to my overall theme "Personal Responsibility."
If this administration what's to be successful, they need to focus on being the best they can be, and calling on everyone to work at 100%, 100% of the time. If I as an employee work at 40%, 100% of the time, it's noticeable; and the company's overall bottom lines will suffer and I will be fired promptly without a second thought because my employer will bring in someone who will A) be grateful for a job and B) work their butt off to meet all the goals and deadlines so as to not be fired. Again, personal responsibility to perform to the best of your ability, all of the time. I understand sometimes you might be "under the weather" (personally I'm dealing with some harsh seasonal allergies right now) so I am sympathetic and can understand a slacking in output due to that, but to operate at 90% normally and to allow something like a "bug" to knock you down to 60% production, that's unacceptable, broken bone probably, a slight bug, no way. Again, Personal Responsibility.
Health is a topic that hits home a little hard for me. Being someone who's dealt with food and seasonal allergies all my life, my mom having back problems as long as I can remember, and my dad passing in 2007 from a heart attack; personal health is something that is not to be taken lightly. Aside from my personal experiences, my job has me "working" with those who need regular medical attention. Personally, I've spent the better part of 2 and a half years working with preventative medicine to keep my health in the best shape possible to prevent future medical bills from necessary procedures due to a lack of responsibility now. Oooh a tie-in. Yes I know you're thinking, "wait you said you like having a fat burger with a coke earlier", why yes I did, but I don't have them for lunch and dinner everyday. In fact, I'm currently in the process of correcting a less than ideal diet I've had over the past few years and begun a workout regimen to improve my overall health. So as everyone can blatantly see here, yes even I have things to work on in my life, and I am currently taking steps to improve my health, because I intend to live to a ripe old age, but the only way I can is if I have personal responsibility to my health now.
Even the Bible says in Proverbs 16:3 "Commit your works to the Lord". Now any Bible believing person would not under any circumstances give less than 100% of one's ability to the Lord. If there's one entity that I would definitely give a full effort towards, it'd be the Lord. Does that mean only the Lord's work get 100%, nope it says commit YOUR works, so whatever you put your hands to should only be done at 100% performance, as if you were going to turn it in to God himself. Kinda scary to think about isn't it?
More to come..... trust me
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