I am responsible for steering my own ship
There is always a lot of talk about personal rights but every ‘right’ has a corresponding ‘responsibility.
This list may help educate people in 12 Step fellowships to determine appropriate attitudes to responsibilities.
- I am responsible for myself.
- I am responsible for leading or not living my life.
- I am responsible for tending to my spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial well-being.
- I am responsible for identifying and meeting my needs.
- I am responsible for solving my problems or learning to live with those I cannot solve.
- I am responsible for my choices.
- I am responsible for what I give and receive.
- I am responsible for setting and achieving my goals.
- I am responsible for how much I enjoy life.
- I am responsible for how much pleasure I find in daily activities.
- I am responsible for whom I love and how I choose to express this love.
- I am responsible for what I do to others and for what I allow others to do to me.
- I am responsible for my wants and desires.
All of me, every aspect of my being, is important.
I count for something. I matter.
My feelings can be trusted.
My thinking is appropriate.
I value my wants and needs.
I do not deserve and will not tolerate abuse or constant mistreatment.
I have rights, and it is my responsibility to assert these rights.
The decisions I make and the way
I conduct myself will reflect my high self-esteem.
My decisions will take into account my responsibilities to myself.
From “Codependent No More” by Melody Beattie
- See also
- Codependent No More
- Books for Pet Lover’s
- 4 Don’ts of ACOA’s
- Symptoms of Codependence
- What is Co-dependency?
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