Committing Self for Achievement

 Committing Self for Achievement 

(Emotional Management for Personal & Professional Growth Series)

As we have discussed the factors affecting an individual towards achievement orientation like clarifying personal values, knowing the purpose, being in a conducive environment, the next important factor is “ Committing self for achievement."

 
What is "committing self"?
 
Committing self is taking responsibility for the action and the consequence. In a business context, most of the time, the term responsibility is perceived as the external enforcement of commitment to some person. But at a personal or an individual level, responsibility is a feeling of owning some task or profession or, on a higher level, life itself. 

The only difference between achievers and non-achiever is “ commitment “ or “ taking responsibility.”

When you observe any achievement, apart from skill, knowledge, luck, environment, there would be one fundamental invisible ingredient, that is  "personal commitment of an individual or group of people". 
 
When you take responsibility for any task, you will get the following benefits.

• Intention to achievement will be relatively more.
• Person display solutions orientation in any challenges
• Despite failure or any setback, the person looks for the learning from the failure.
• Always look at the setback or failure from a 360 perspective rather than blaming or fixing someone.
• Always look for doing better in the given context as much as possible.
• When we take personal responsibility, it puts us on a highly energetic emotional level during the journey.
   

Quite contrary to the above behavior, if the person is not committed or not taking personal responsibility, he/ she displays the following behaviors.

• Less interest in actions and finding reasons or excuses for procrastination
• Look for the problems at any moment.
• Any failure or setback put the individual down.
• Momentarily blame someone or try to fix the external reason for failure or setbacks

when there is a commitment, eventually you win despite all challenges ...In the absence of commitment, nothing sustains.

One of the questions most of the Business heads / Managers look for answers is whether the commitment is inborn or built within the person. How to inculcate the feeling of responsibility in people's minds in an organizational setup?

Solicit your views/experiences on the above questions...