Three Step's

Here are three small steps that I think can make a difference in breaking out of a do it for me mindset.

Try to leave an area better than when you found it. For example: try whipping off a messed up counter top when exiting a public restroom or picking up a piece of garbage you find in a public place and putting it in the trash. It frees up a job that someone else has to do and the next person does not have to deal with it. This takes practice but any little bit of effort and even the thought will begin to break the cycle.

Leave a big tip.

When you catch yourself blaming someone, something else for the situation you are in, ask yourself what your part is in the matter. I have found that I either have to go way back in the timeline or right to the current moment to figure out my part. It can be as simple as the way I am choosing to think about a situation that boils down to my part of it all but more often than not it was a choice that I made. Even more, I knew the risk of whatever choice if I get honest about it.

It is amazing to me how empowering this can be and I am no longer a victim of anything by owning my responsibility.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln