Personal Responsibility

Personal Responsibility

When you accomplish your goals, you have personal responsibility. They are in relations to one another. Without one you can't have the other. In order to accomplish your goals, you have to state your goals. One important key to success is making time for your goals. In our day to day life many things come up, but it is important to set times to accomplish our goals. You can set a schedule, for study time and homework. Your friends may go out and do fun things all the time but as a student, you have to put school first above certain things. It is good to set a timeline so you can stay focus. Setting a timeline is also good to see your progress. Seeing your progress will make your goals more real and should give you more motivation. As an adult and a college student you have to take your studies seriously. You do not want to waste your time or money on college courses, if you don't apply yourself and take your studies seriously. You have to learn how to pick your battles.

When you sign up for your first classes, it never crosses your mind that you may fail. You make that decision to go to college and earn your degree. From the first class you sign up for all you see is success. If you don't apply yourself like you should, you will fail at college. You cannot earn your degree on your own; it is up to you to ask for help. You and only you have to want to be successful in college. Accepting that you choose the direction for your life is a way of accepting personal responsibility (Lawson). It is easy to get side track, and lose sight of your goal. When you enter college you are an adult, you have to take responsibility for your actions. You attend college from a range of 2-5 years usually; you don't want all that time to be waste. You don't go to college thinking the worse. You are your own best cheerleader to get the job done. You have to have personal responsibility to be successful in college, when it comes down to it if you fail as a student, you cannot blame anyone but yourself. You want success, not failure!

There is no set time to finish your degree, but you also don't want to spend more time in college than you have to. The colleges give you an estimate of how long it should take you to finish a Associate, Bachelor, and a Master degree. That estimate does not mean that is how long it takes you to graduate and earn your degree. Some students take longer and for some students it takes a shorter time. It depends on your dedication, strive, and how responsible as a student you are. As a student you control your success rate. It depends how focus you are as a student on your own success rate. Accepting that you cannot blame others for the choices you have made according to Jake Lawson. College is not like high school, you do not have teachers telling you step by step how to do things. In high school, you have some teachers that remind you when