The power of personal responsibility

Good morning everyone.

Today I would like to talk about the power of personal responsibility.
The wonderful thing about this power is that it exists in each and every one of us already and the challenge is simply to rediscover the power and secondly use it more regularly.

The power of personal responsibility is our ability to decide to do whatever needs to be done to achieve a goal and keep adjusting and learning until the goal is achieved.

I myself for example had to take my UK car driving test 5 times before being told that I was successful. Each failure was a lesson to keep me moving forward to achieving my goal. One philosopher stated that he has not failed, but rather he has succeeded in finding 1000 ways that don't work.

I am a Muslim and it is therefore my belief that nothing can happen without the permission of God almighty. Therefore if something is not destined for me, I won't get it no matter how much personal responsibility I take.

However having said that, I don't know what is or is not destined for me, but I do know that I am 1000 times more likely to achieve a task by taking personal responsibility rather than relying on fate.

Chapter 13 verse 11 of the holy Quran very beautifully states that "Verily Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change their own condition"

A  (probably fake but very apt ) story illustrates this point beautifully.
There was a pious man who publicly begged God to make him win the lottery every day for several weeks . Every week, when the balls were drawn people asked him if he had won and he always cried and wailed that he hadn't and continued beseeching God for success.

Then eventually he heard from God in his dream telling him thathe needs  to at least buy a ticket!

The moral of the story is clear.

I urge you all and myself to continually remind ourselves of the great  power of personal responsibility that we possess and exercise it more and more often and encourage others to do so too.

Have a splendid day and I will be back in the next day or two with a new post, God willing.