Earnestly Adjust

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible

for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

Theodore Roosevelt

By accepting responsibility for our part in the problems at hand, it is easier to move  toward correction.  If we place blame on others, we can become debilitated by complex emotions, delaying any resolve.  It is necessary to understand the part we played.

As long as we place responsibility entirely onto someone else, we will miss the lesson.  If we do not own up to our portion, we will recreate a similar situation for the exact lesson to resurface. 

What is that saying, "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me."  The best of us can be hoodwinked, and  when distracted by revenge, we will continue to miss the point.  Focus on personal behavior and accept responsibility for the actions we take.  Begin to earnestly adjust ourselves as we are the only ones we can change.