Accountable Citizens Power America

Welcome to our website dedicated to inspiring and developing accountable citizens. We're committed to providing quality information from experts in their fields and from personal experience. We'll also feature guest columns from time to time. Some of the authors you will recognize and others will be new.

Our focus is on encouraging responsible decision-making that will guide future generations to embrace a culture of accountability above personal gain.

We'll feature some writers and speakers who are experts in their respective fields. They may not be well known to all of our readers. You won't see them in Tik Tok videos. Some aren't alive anymore. But the knowledge of Og Mandino, John Maxwell, Stephen Covey, Mother Teresa, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Denis Waitley and others never goes out of date.

Whether teaching leadership skills or offering inspiring quotes, they have proven track records and our younger generation needs to have access to their wisdom.

Leadership Spotlight

Every week or so, we'll present a short video from someone on that previous list along with some others. Internet research suggests that on average, most people only spend about four minutes watching a video. 

Our website is dedicated to people who want to go above average to do great things, to learn new skills and to make a positive difference. This week we're featuring a short video with a strong message that works for families, for teams, and for any organization. 

Our Mission Statement 

A mission statement should have two key components. It should be easy to remember and it should be a call to action. Our mission statement is below this paragraph. Those three lines also make up our key core values. Our thoughts and corresponding actions need to align with our core values.

Life Lessons. We Have The Experience Scars!

Our own editorial team will add some first person stories that we hope will inspire you and offer insight on how you can create positive change. We spent time thinking through the core values that would guide the content selection before we launched this website.  Just below in the container block, we've listed some pages that offer a "how-to" map to becoming an effective example of accountability and leadership.

The American Dream Hasn't Disappeared

The American dream is alive and well. That dream began with the promise of equality for all humans and offered the opportunity, never a guarantee, but always the opportunity for everyone who does the work in an honest, forthright manner to succeed.

The bedrock of that noble dream was an acceptance of being accountable for our actions and accepting responsibility and the corresponding consequences of those actions. That American dream also had at it's core a fierce determination to protect the innocent citizens and to use our personal success stories to lift up other citizens.

As with any dream or ideal, sometimes we veer off the narrow path of holding ourselves and our fellow citizens accountable for our decisions. At times it's easier to take shortcuts. It's seems as though right now in this point in history, there is far less personal accountability and much more handout mentality that suggests no responsibility for anything and a desire to be taken care of by government stipends.

Accountable citizens recognize this and we lead in a productive manner. We learn how to respond in positive ways, rather than react in violent retaliation.

The American dream is still out there. We just need a return to accountability and responsibility. As noted satirist Bill Maher once stated, "We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."  

Accountable citizens are brave citizens. That could mean standing on the front lines of military defense for part of the American population. But for all, it means asking questions and pressing for truthful answers. It means putting action behind the words, "service to country above self." 

This cannot be understated in the current climate in our nation that seems to put more emphasis on loud condemnation and zero interest in applying common sense and logic into discussions. 

Learning the Lessons of History

Learning from history is vital. Repeating past mistakes only leads to future problems. While this is a non-political website, the state of politics in America must be addressed. It is having a negative effect on the development of accountable citizens. We can't grow as a nation if we abdicate our responsibility in this essential area.

It's essential that we include the younger generation in this discussion. This quagmire that is the current two-party system has dissolved into such a place that it has become a national embarrassment. It has become obvious that solving problems in our country is not a high priority among the vast majority of elected officials.  

Our nation began as a great experiment. There have been challenges and grievous errors along the way. Whenever humans are involved, both of those things occur. The key is how we correct those errors. In all things, beginning with truth is the first step. And too often, the most difficult. But establishing accountability as a core value requires us to always rely on being truthful.

As we follow that path of truth, it will become clear that a certain handout mentality has promoted the idea that accountability feels like an attack. This idea has been championed by an elite class that believes personal responsibility is a thing of the past and that holding ourselves accountable for our actions is an obsolete waste of effort.

"Accountability doesn't work unless there's a context of personal caring."  Jonathon Raymond

Accountable Citizens Are Problem Solvers

“I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you’re at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.”  Christy Clark

Some of the content you read on these pages might be controversial. You might not agree with every paragraph or every statement. Part of being an accountable citizen is seeking a middle ground on as many issues as possible to find a place where we can work together to lift our nation to benefit every citizen.

We'll present some pages that sound much different than what you might have heard or read about some of these controversial subjects. We aren't asking you to blindly accept the words you read on this website. We will provide sound logic and factual content. It will be up to our readers to decide for themselves how they feel about what they read.

Accountable citizens look to build successful teams of people determined to make things better for the next generation than the way they found it. What are your thoughts? Your opinion is valuable. Your experience and your success stories could inspire future leaders. Please share them with us using the contact link.

All of our full posts can be found in the right margin of every page, listed under the heading of page directory.

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