Accountability

Being responsible for your actions.  Why is it so hard to fess up to something we did wrong

Instead of taking responsibility and owning  our mistakes , we make excuses.

Being the first to admit our oversight or fault, we wait to hear it from another person’s mouth. Knowing how much we can’t stand the figure pointed in our direction.

First instinct is to go on defenseProtect our ego, our pride.  while honesty and integrity take a back seat.

Self awareness and or being present to our imperfections,  misjudgments. omissions and mishaps shows self respect, dignity, confidence.  Even when vulnerable to humiliation.

Deflection replaces owning up to the truth. it’s easier to take a pass or point out something another has done. We rather play victim. 

All the work and energy it takes to avoid the ownership of our mistakes, can easily be defused, forgiven and forgotten about with one word.  

SORRY…….

After all, none of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes.  confessing to our aberrations  is not only the best way but the shorter route to the truth.