“Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.”
Robert Ringer
How do you define ownership? Ownership to me is to take responsibility and accountability for the initiation, process and outcome of any activity as well as its outcome.
For example, taking full ownership of a project means to make any result and delivery of the project part of your own being. When the project was conducted well and the delivery was a success, taking ownership of the project is a pleasant action. When the operations are messy and the outcome desirable, taking ownership means to take full responsibility for ill-thought decisions and the poor delivery.
The ownership mindset is tended towards a growth mindset where you are willing to bear the burden of failure (or success) for a better change in the future. The person who owns whatever they set themselves towards do not look for blame in others. Instead, they look for shortcomings in themselves, not as points of self-deprecation, but as points of self-improvement.
When you start holding an ownership mindset, you start to accept yourself for the good and the bad. Mistakes, once they inevitably happen, are embraced and constructively criticised; rather than shunned and destructively criticised. You start to appreciate imperfection as constant in any being or activity, which are to be referred to when treading towards perfection.
I remind myself today to continue taking ownership in everything that I am being, thinking, saying and doing. To accept myself in fullness, so that I may continue to grow.
Own your growth,
Ruiz