I just finished reading the book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question. It’s a pretty good and very short book about personal accountablity. I was hoping to find some important tips and lessons in it to share with my class, but I didn’t find much. The book is more directed to people who are ready to make the difference and change in their own lives.

Basically the lesson is this: Stop Blaming, Complaining and Procrastinating and start asking what it is you can do to make a difference. I find that that is a really important thing in so many areas in life. In my marriage it’s important for me to ask and spend my time thinking about what differences I can make in my attitude, values and personality, rather then lamenting that my wife needs to change her actions. At work it is hugely important to take responsibility myself rather then pass the blame to others, especially in front of others. I know parent’s have to be really good at this, so that children are raised seeing their parents unified rather then passing blame, a dangerous lesson to learn.

Personal responsibility though, is about you individually being personally responsible and making those changes in your own life. So how do you begin to teach others about that besides modeling it? How do you share and give a lesson in being responsible and accountable for your actions? Maybe I need to hear the author give a presentation to get a better idea.