1. Choice and Accountability
A new perspective

2. We are the Product of Our Choices, Rather than Our Circumstances
Survival and Victim of Life
Life and Responsibility for Choices
It’s not the hand you are dealt, it’s how you play the cards that makes the difference.

3. When we find ourselves at point of choice, we can do one of two things:
We can REACT and drop down into our pattern
We can RESPOND and experience the learning.

4. Cycle of a Pattern Situation Choice Where I am Point NOW! REACTION
Automatic
Unconscious
RESULTS:
Behavior and
History repeated

5. Moving Beyond the Pattern
Results:
Growth
Experience
RESPONSE
Accountable
Conscious
Where I am
NOW!
Situation
Choice
Point
Pause
RESULTS:
Behavior and
History repeated
REACTION
Automatic
Unconscious

6. Strategies to assist Teach yourself to “Stop” then choose
Determine what you want to create in your life
Clarify your values and principles
Share your intention with someone
Journal your experiences in choosing

7. How people seek to escape accountability
I had no choice
I had no control
I don’t know
I forgot
I’ll try
If…Then…!
Nobody told me!
It’s not my fault
That’s just the way I am!
I don’t have time!

8. How People Accept Accountability by Choosing and Deciding
Decide
Cut off or end
React to Defend a Victim
Rejoicing
Choose
Options
Choice
Power
Commit “to entrust into the care of another; to give in trust”