PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: What Life Expects From Us

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PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY:
It's Role in Creating a Better World
Nine Berrett-Koehler Authors came together to explore personal responsibility: What it means? How could it change things? What can we all do? Dr. Alex Pattakos, John Perkins and Angeles Arrien set the stage for this powerful conversation among a group of distinguished authors about current affairs in our country and our world.
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A FEW PERSONAL THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER...
Personal responsibility is a topic that resonates with me. I believe in it, do you? Reflecting back on my generation, when we were going through the anti-war movement at another time in history, there was a sense of social activism that was certainly pleasure-driven, but also carried with it a higher purpose. It wasn’t just John Lennon’s songs and lyrics that symbolized this time of great change. I think people really believed in it. Some years later, we seemed to go through a period where we became a lot more affluent and anesthetized to a lot of things that were going on around us and in the world. We lost touch. We closed our eyes. We exchanged our social activism with the ease of running on auto-pilot.

Today, we find ourselves in a time of great turmoil, deep divides, great need, war, destruction and life, in many ways, out of control. I find it a time that is calling out for its citizens to feel a sense of personal responsibility. It comes with an invitation to discover deeper meaning in our lives, giving instead of taking --- by engaging instead of shutting down. The stakes are high and it is time to move forward to rebuild our country, our families, our communities and our planet. We must wake up, get informed and get involved!

As I mention in my book, we are, by nature, creatures of habit. As we repeat our patterns of thought over and over again, we begin to believe that life just happens to us and this limits our potential. We become prisoners of our thoughts. Perhaps, this describes where many of us are at this moment, but this can be changed.

Recently, I had an opportunity to participate in the PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY dialogue referenced above with eight other Berrett-Koehler authors. It was not only meaning-FULL to be invited to seed the conversation, but it was also a thought-provoking experience to hear what others had to say. The whole idea was to create dialogue that would invite others to think and question with us and get involved right where they are. I've realized it was a conversation about what life was expecting from us.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."   
--- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

I invite you to meet nine Berrett-Koehler authors and  LISTEN IN to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: It's Role in Creating a Better World and let me know what you think!

All the best,
Alex 

Alex Pattakos, Ph.D.
author, Prisoners of Our Thoughts
founder, Center for Meaning
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