Never under the bus

Be accountable

Don’t take the “it wasn’t my fault” road tour.   You know the familiar mantra: It wasn’t me, it was really you (or someone else).

Blame and excuses never solve a problem.  They are never the path forward.  Blame and excuses never reveal or cultivate the greater person you are inside, or can become.

You can be right.  You can be wrong.  You can be self-righteous, justified, and equipped with the explanation of innocence.  It doesn’t matter.  When crap shows up in your life, when things don’t go as planned, you may or may not be totally responsible, but you have to be accountable.   You have to figure how to move forward, how to move beyond what happened.  You have to step up and do it, without throwing everyone else under the bus.