1. We are responsible in every way for our well-being, though we often tend to pass the buck onto others, the environment and even to God.
2. Quite often, we seem to believe that our responsibility for learning ends with enrolling for the course to get a qualification, while believing that others will provide us knowledge.
3. But without owning up responsibility for our own growth, we can at best make only marginal use of the efforts made by our teachers and trainers to "thrust" knowledge on us.
4. We should, therefore, shift to an active "learning" paradigm, which involves initiative in reading up on developments in the field of one's choice, interacting with people in these professions, setting tasks for oneselves and draw out one's creativity.
5. Similarly, most of the time we do not realize that our health is our responsibility, and not the doctor's.
6. We are responsibile not only for our fitness, but for our blood sugar, our obesity, our blood cholesterol, our back pain, our body aches and so on.
7. Passing the buck to the physician, the fitness expert, the nutritionist and the pharmacist is all part of the overall alibi culture.
8. The basic truth is that you have to set aside time for the kind of exercise with which you are comfortable and consciously regulate your food habits in order to avoid those problems which you then expect the doctor to sort out for you, although he is just there to support you and not to take over responsibility for your health.
9. So, take charge of your life, by putting yourself first: your well-being, your near and dear ones, your personal growth and your peace of mind.
10. This is not a selfish attitude, because it is only when you are well and at peace with yourself that you will be of service to others.
2. Quite often, we seem to believe that our responsibility for learning ends with enrolling for the course to get a qualification, while believing that others will provide us knowledge.
3. But without owning up responsibility for our own growth, we can at best make only marginal use of the efforts made by our teachers and trainers to "thrust" knowledge on us.
4. We should, therefore, shift to an active "learning" paradigm, which involves initiative in reading up on developments in the field of one's choice, interacting with people in these professions, setting tasks for oneselves and draw out one's creativity.
5. Similarly, most of the time we do not realize that our health is our responsibility, and not the doctor's.
6. We are responsibile not only for our fitness, but for our blood sugar, our obesity, our blood cholesterol, our back pain, our body aches and so on.
7. Passing the buck to the physician, the fitness expert, the nutritionist and the pharmacist is all part of the overall alibi culture.
8. The basic truth is that you have to set aside time for the kind of exercise with which you are comfortable and consciously regulate your food habits in order to avoid those problems which you then expect the doctor to sort out for you, although he is just there to support you and not to take over responsibility for your health.
9. So, take charge of your life, by putting yourself first: your well-being, your near and dear ones, your personal growth and your peace of mind.
10. This is not a selfish attitude, because it is only when you are well and at peace with yourself that you will be of service to others.