Taking Ownership for Happiness

This is how people react when not owning responsibility

I own a house. How do we feel when we say this sentence. We get two kind of senses:
1. Feeling of enjoyment or proud or feeling valued
2. Sense of responsibility

There are above two part of everything we have. We can use the home for sleeping, for celebrating any function, we can use for cooking and many other. But at the same time, if there is any damage into home, we have to fix it. We have to be serious about it otherwise the consequences we will have to face. It is not that we feel sad when we do repair. In fact we feel happy to fix it. and consider it as our part of life.

In corporate world, everyone want to be seen as good, successful, or a person who never makes mistakes or always take correct decision, do their work on or before time. Is it really possible to be a person doing work without doing any mistake ever. We all are human being. We are tend to make mistake. 

If we make mistake who will own it. Since most people work in a team, they get a scope to blame others or deny their mistake. But just think if you are head of your family, can you deny your mistake. Why don't we accept mistake and then correct it. If we don't acknowledge mistake, we can never fix them.

The problem with not taking ownership is, we never feel attachment with work. We always look for our last day salary. When we do the work, our only intention is to throw the ball in others net. This way you never get the happiness since you are not attached with work. But if we take ownership of work, the magic will start happen.

We will feel very happy when we complete our work. When you leave office there will be sense of satisfaction. Your work which contribute a large part of time your spent, will be highly utilized and you will feel highly satisfied. if you make mistake you can accept your criticism and you can understand that rejection of your suggestion is merely rejection of your idea rather than you. You will be open for feedback. Open for positive criticism.

When we start taking ownership, we start looking at problem from different perspective. You try to learn some new skill even if it doesn't fall in to your work scope. You approach all other share holder and bring them on table. We try to share our learning with team so that team can perform better. Your approach to problem will be different. You don't want to put any burden on others for your work. You become open to suggestion and help.

In fact our small steps like not doing litter, urine, throw garbage in public place. These baby steps have power to transform India. But for that you need to attach yourself with India as your motherland and you are responsible to keep it clean.

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