Celebrated Christian author and speaker Joyce Meyer has urged individuals to take ownership of their behavior and attitudes, emphasizing the importance of personal accountability. Speaking passionately to an audience, Meyer highlighted the dangers of shifting blame for one’s actions onto others.
“We need to pay attention to our behavior, and we need to take responsibility for it,” Meyer said. “And I’m gonna say it again: Stop blaming bad behavior on what somebody else is doing to you.”
She pointed out that many people attribute their struggles to external circumstances but fail to acknowledge their own mindset. “Some of you here tonight, you’ve got all kinds of problems, and you’re blaming everything on your problems. But it’s not the problems; it’s your attitude toward your problems that is the problem,” she explained.
To drive her point home, she invoked the words of Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, who found strength in maintaining a positive outlook even under extreme adversity. “Victor Frankl said, ‘You can take away every right that I have, but there’s one thing you cannot take away from me, and that’s my attitude.’ If I want to have a good one, nobody can make me have a bad one,” she shared.
Her message served as a powerful reminder to the audience that while challenges are inevitable, the way one responds to them ultimately shapes their experience.
