I grew up with a strong sense of responsibility. When I was little, and my dad would travel, he would look at me and say, “Okay, you’re the man of the house now. You take of mom while I’m away.” Seven-year-old me would go about checking in on mom for the duration of my dad’s trip. I took the responsibility seriously.
Responsibilities can turn into obligations. Obligations have a way of denying or suppressing the human will – they become an energy zap. There is a single word that is a tell-tale sign of a task becoming an obligation: “Should.”
