MY THURSDAY THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK - You are responsible to people not for them. This includes employees, customers, relatives, spouses and everyone you interact with. Having raised three kids over the years my approach was I am responsible to support you, educate you, love you and help you when and where I could but at some point, you are responsible for your choices, actions, and decisions. In my last fulltime position before going fulltime as a speaker I as responsible to 35 salespeople and a support staff of over twenty.  If you want to keep your position, get promoted or achieve a raise it isn’t because I owe it to you it’s because you earned it. I provided the training and you either used it or you didn’t.  As a speaker in front of several hundred people my responsibility is to you – to offer information and ideas you can use to benefit your career, life or business – you can use it or not – if you do – great – if you don’t – I won’t lose any sleep.  Let me repeat – I am always responsible to you, but I am not responsible for you.