Welcome to the Mentor 4 Moms Podcast!
On this episode:
Let’s talk about fault, blame, and personal responsibility.
Fault carries the burden of guilt created when things go wrong or different than expected.
- Who is responsible, or can be made to feel responsible?
- Who played a role in the mistake? We are particularly interested in who played the chief role.
Blame is the act of determining who is at fault.
- Pointing the finger.
- Full of judgement and wants to punish.
- Accusation that leads to defenses being raised.
Personal responsibility is accepting responsibility for the part I played no matter how large or small. It is recognizing your part, but not accepting fault or blame.
Personal responsibility:
- is a healthy way to deal with difficult situations
- requires you to be calm and slow to accuse
- opens you up to accepting where you were wrong
- drops defenses
- removes black and white thinking
- opens up conversation instead of shutting it down
- invites others to do the same
- makes you relatable
For example:
The car door was left open and now the car battery is dead.
I was the last one out of the car.
Notice. The statement leaves space for acceptance of the PART that person played, without dumping 100% of the blame on their shoulders.
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