The Moral Compass Chronicles
An audio time capsule centered around morality - encouraging people around the world on the importance of governing one’s life in a morally [and biblically] sound manner!
The Moral Compass Chronicles
The Accountability Blueprint
The episode explores the crucial theme of accountability, examining its role in personal development and relationship dynamics. I share personal stories and insights, urging listeners to take immediate action towards self-improvement and embrace accountability to foster better connections in their lives.
Throughout this journey, we delve into the intricate dynamics of relationships, highlighting the importance of choosing accountability over the need to always be right. Inspired by Philippians chapter two, we explore how esteeming others and prioritizing empathy can lead to deeper understanding and enhanced communication. However, we also acknowledge the limits of this approach, especially in situations of abuse, while emphasizing its general applicability in everyday life. This mindset encourages us to act as both listeners and leaders in our relationships, fostering a culture of integrity and respect.
Grace and peace everybody! Grace and peace world. Welcome to another rendition of the moral compass chronicles. I am your host, Eyon Johnson, and at this point you already know where you can find me. You can find me on just about every podcast platform. Just search up the moral compass chronicles. You can find me on just about every social media outlet instagram, tiktok, um, what else we got? Twitter all at eyonjayy e y o n j a y y two y's at the end. You can find me on youtube at Eyon Johnson, and I am just super grateful to be here. Yet again, man. Yet again, another chronicle. Another day, another chronicle. Another week, another chronicle, and we are embarking on a new year.
Speaker 1:Christmas has passed For those that celebrate Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and Thanksgiving, and the list goes on and on. They've all passed. They have all passed and we are about to cross over into a new year. And I don't know about you, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful for a lot of different things. I am grateful for where God has brought me from and what he has brought me into. I am grateful. I am grateful for the fact that I didn't wait until the new year to really really lock in on the things that I wanted to and have been working toward. You know what I'm saying. A lot of us, a lot of times, we do that and we make things a new year's resolution when, in actuality, I can start now. And so I have been working on this podcast for months now and you all have seen the result of that, and I'm grateful. I'm grateful for those who have seen the results, I'm grateful for those who have made themselves a part of this journey, and the subscribers are climbing and the downloads and the views they're climbing, and I'm just here to be a vessel man that the Lord can use, and I'm going to speak the wisdom in which he has bestowed upon me, however little or however much that may be, I'm here to impart that wisdom. And so, as we embark on this new year I mean by the time we hear this, we might be crossed over into the new year and so just get started, get started, man, get started, get started, get started.
Speaker 1:Whatever it is, whatever it is, start now. If you're listening to this, if you're watching this, start right now. It may be the new year already, but that's okay, all right, start now. Start now and get going and keep going, get going and keep going A lot of times. Well, we know this, we've all done it at some point in our lives. One of the worst things we can do is to start and then stop, because now I got to start again and it's tough. It's tough going to the gym for a few months, stopping for a year, and then now I got to work myself back up to going back and starting again. It's tough. So don't do that to yourself this year 2025.
Speaker 1:Let's lock in, man, and let's do the things that we know and believe that we are called to do. All right, and as for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. And as for me, I'm going to get out these podcasts. You feel me, you're going to get these podcasts, man, you're going to get these episodes. Bro, Y'all going to get this information, whatever it may be. You're going to get my opinions, all right, and you know, for those that don't want it, you know, you already know what you got to do. You know what I'm saying. You already know what you got to do. Cut it off. But for those that's rocking with me, I am grateful for you, man, for those that are with me on this journey, I'm grateful for you. I love you, I appreciate you. No-transcript can reach the masses and that it can help somebody.
Speaker 1:Um, because accountability is missing. Accountability, responsibility, these things are missing in um, today's society, man and um. There's a quote that says uh, um, what was it? Was it? The person who is complaining about how the ball bounces is more than likely the person that dropped it bounces. And you ever see a? I won't even go into that, but the person who complains about how the ball bounces is more than likely the person who dropped the ball and so put that in your pipe and smoke it. I don't remember who that quote was from, but accountability, excuse me, accountability is missing in our society. It's lacking in our society.
Speaker 1:Why, why, why do? Why do I say that? And I have some? I wrote some definitions of accountability down. I'll get into that in a second. But why, man? Why? I think that's a good question. I wonder you know what you guys think about that why? And maybe take a moment and think. Let's think together for a second why is it that accountability is lacking so much in today's society? Nobody wants to, and let me not say nobody because you, I know you may, you may be okay, taking accountability right, whoever you are, and shout out to you because you know the steps that you have taken throughout your life to get to this place you are in right now, where you are taking accountability for your actions and you are holding yourself responsible. You know right. You know right. But why is it that this world we are living in there are so many people who do not want to be held accountable? Well, I believe it's because, quite frankly, it doesn't feel good. Let's call it what it is. Let's be honest with ourselves for a second. Taking accountability is not fun.
Speaker 1:Being held accountable, like, especially when you're wrong, bro, like anybody ever been loud and wrong? You ever been loud and wrong. Listen, I have been loud and wrong many times in my life. And that moment when you realize that you were wrong and somebody has been telling you that you were wrong, bro, and now you have to admit that you're wrong and like didn't like to make matters worse, you may even have to apologize now, like, depending on what it is. So you had to, you had to you. You were loud and wrong, man. I mean like very wrong, like as wrong as you could be about whatever it is. I hope somebody getting a laugh out of this too. You were as loud, you were as loud and wrong as possible. Then you had to have that that moment of realization where you were like you thought you were right and now you realize that you were wrong, whether it's because there were receipts or whatever it may be right. Then you had to admit that you were wrong and then you had to apologize for it. That's tough, bro. That is tough. That's not easy. I feel like that's one of the biggest reasons. Those things I just listed, those are some of the reasons people don't like to take accountability and that's a reason why, when somebody is wrong and they get proven wrong, there are people who are willing to die on the hill of being wrong. Bro, being loud and wrong.
Speaker 1:I saw a video of this lady coming down a one-way street come. I mean literally coming down a one-way street or maybe it was a parking garage or something coming down a one-way and there were several cars going the right direction and they obviously came to a standstill. They came to a point where their cars are head to head and the lady is getting out their car. I mean cursing bro out and I've seen several instances of this, but cursing bro out and and the guy is like yo, like you, you're. You're coming down a one way street, bro, you are coming down. And at one point I heard her legitimately say I don't care if it's a one way street, move over.
Speaker 1:So, like man, I I know for a fact, and me, as somebody who, as I mentioned I, have been loud and wrong many times in my life, I remember a time in my life where I was not okay, admitting I was wrong. I was not okay, and it's not even so much that. Let me not even say that, because I've never necessarily had a problem saying I was sorry, but it was more so that in the heat of battle or in the heat of a conversation, I was more inclined to point fingers at the other person involved because they also did something wrong. You know what I'm saying. That was more so me, that was my issue when, instead of taking accountability for what this person is telling me right, eon, you told me two plus two was five, and I may have done that right Instead of taking accountability for that, I'm telling them well, you know, yesterday you told me that five plus five was 11. So now, even though two things are true here. Instead of me being willing to take accountability right now for what I just did, I was inclined and more inclined.
Speaker 1:I was the type of person who I wanted to point out your wrong as well first and, whatever complex it was, whatever issues I had, it led me to want to point out your shortcomings first before being able to look in the mirror at my own. And, quite frankly, I had gotten that wrong so many times that I had finally gotten to a place in my life where there was another relationship ruined and that didn't work out. And I had to like legitimately take a step back and like look back at my past, like situations, whether it was with friends, jobs, relationships, whatever it may have been and say, yo, there's a common denominator here, bro, and that common denominator is me, and I guess this is just a little bit of a moment of transparency here, but I had to really like take note of that. And that was the moment and the day that I decided to change things and change how I went about my conversations and my relationships and my friendships and how I would speak on the job and so on and so forth, and I have noticed a major shift in my life. I have noticed a major shift in my communication skills, so much so that I have started to study certain forms of communication and trying to learn how to better communicate. And then now how to teach people and how to help people communicate, how to mediate between people. That's something that has become a big part of my life. You know, and so I recognize. They say it takes one to know one, so that's why I feel like I know how tough it is, because that was me. That was me at one point. That was me at one point, and I actively try to not be that person anymore.
Speaker 1:I actively try to take accountability, even if I see where someone else is going wrong. Also, like you know what, let me take accountability first for what I've done wrong. Let me look in the mirror first, and this is on the last episode. You heard me talking about looking in the mirror. You heard me talking about taking accountability and things of that nature, and this is on the last episode. You heard me talking about looking in the mirror. You heard me talking about taking accountability and things of that nature, and this is the accountability series. It's sort of just continuing. I am now in that place where I see the benefit. I see now how beneficial it is for me in the heat of a conversation or a disagreement or an argument or whatever it may be, I see how beneficial it is for one party, whoever that party may be.
Speaker 1:Call it the bigger person, right, that's what we say. Oh, you got to be the bigger person. And a lot of people don't want to be the bigger person. A lot of people want to be right and I thank God for you who's watching this and who's listening to this. You may not be that person who is so much concerned with being right, but there are a lot of people in this world who want to be right, period, whether they have some wrong doing as well in this situation, they want to be right and they want to be heard and they want to tell you that you were wrong and how wrong you were. But they don't want to take accountability for where they have gone wrong.
Speaker 1:And I have an unpopular opinion. We remember Eon's unpopular opinions. I think we should all start to esteem each other higher than ourselves. That is what the word of God tells me. I believe it's in Philippians, chapter two. Go read it. It talks about esteeming one another higher than ourselves and in a sense of lowliness, with a mind of lowliness. When I think, when I see that word lowliness, I think about meekness, I think about temperance, I think about the fruit of the spirit, I think about these different elements that, uh, quite frankly, describe the mind of Christ, which ought to be in each and every single one of us. Let this mind be in you. That was also in who right? Christ Jesus and so I, and that may be an unpopular opinion in today's day and age and in today's society, but that's all right.
Speaker 1:I am a man of unpopular opinions and I believe that we should be esteeming one another higher than ourselves. How do I relate that to accountability? So, if I'm in a position where I'm in a heated argument, I'm in a disagreement with someone, a dispute of some sort, I believe that if everybody were to esteem each other higher than themselves, we would all be looking in the mirror at ourselves first to see where we have gone wrong, which would enable us to apologize a little bit faster. It would enable us to hear the other person out a little bit more. It would put me in a position where I am now, instead of yelling back at you as you are yelling at me. I am now able to take a position of silence. I am able now to listen. If I'm esteeming you higher than I am esteeming myself, I am now looking to hear you out instead of being so quick to want to be heard. That may be a very unpopular opinion in today's day and age, but you know, I believe it's beneficial. It would be beneficial for us to do that, especially if we we, if we're as good of people as we say we are a lot of, we all, we like to talk about the fact that we're good people.
Speaker 1:If you were to take a poll and ask people, like if they're a good person, I feel like more people would say yes than no. If it was anonymous, I feel like people would tell people. More people would tell the truth, probably. But, like if you were asking people on the spot, I feel like more people would say yes, I'm a good person. Well, you know what if we're, if you are a good person, well, you know what If we're, if you are a good person, this is something that you would consider esteeming someone else higher than yourself, especially in a moment of dispute or disagreement.
Speaker 1:It's one thing for me to quote that word, that chapter, that verse in the word of God, it's another thing. And so now I guess maybe this is to my believers, my believers, my fellow believers. I know many people are not, but you know what You're going to get. This too, if you're not right. It's one thing for us to read that and quote it, but how about implementing it into our daily lives? That is where it gets tougher. That's where it gets tough. That's where it gets tough, bro. That's where it gets tough.
Speaker 1:Because now, in the heat of argument, in the heat of dispute and disagreement, me being able to now esteem you higher than myself, think about your feelings and put your feelings over mine. And obviously, guys, listen, I know there's a lot of gray area in that because, depending on the situation, that determines whether or not you're able to do that right, um, but I'm speaking more on a general level and I'm speaking more about a way of life as opposed to a specific situation. You know, I know there's a lot of situations where abusive situations and things of that nature I don't want to go too much into that, but obviously, if I am being physically abused, I cannot esteem you. My abuse are higher than myself in that situation. I've got to get myself out of there. I have to defend myself. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So, of course, there are many different scenarios in which this does not apply. But I'm speaking on a general level and you, my listeners, my watchers, my brothers and sisters, you're all very smart, you are all adults, you are smart people and you know what I mean. You know the situations in which this applies to and the ones in which it doesn't. And if you don't know, let's have a conversation about it. I am more than willing to speak to you on a personal level so we can sort of gain some understanding and I can help if possible and we're needed, because there are many scenarios where taking accountability is not on you, it is on the other person. You know what I'm saying, but I'm talking about situations where you know what other person.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying, but I'm talking about situations where you know what the other person is telling some truth also. The other person is right about this thing also. Yes, they're wrong about this. Yes, they're wrong about that, but you know what, bro? They are right about this thing right here, and this thing they said over here was the truth. You know what I'm saying. And like, if it's 60-40, that person is 60% at fault and I'm 40%. And so, like I'm talking to you, who's 40% wrong, who feels like yo, nah, nah, nah, nah, the other person is more wrong, the other person is wrong, the other person is wrong, the other person did this, the other person did that. Well, I am talking to you because you are the one who, in the long run, will benefit the most from taking accountability as well.
Speaker 1:They say you can't fight fire with fire, and there's a lot of fire in this world. Quite frankly, I won't even go there. There's a lot of fire in this world, literally, figuratively, spiritually, and I won't even go there. There's a lot of fire in this world, literally, figuratively, spiritually. And fighting fire with fire just creates more fire, bro. It creates more chaos, it creates more destruction. And, bro, taking accountability clears your heart.
Speaker 1:I heard david david asking god, created me a clean heart, renew the right spirit within me. Listen, listen, my brother, my, my sister. I know that you may not be most in the wrong in these different situations in your life, in these different disagreements with your family member, your spouse, whatever the case may be. Whatever the case may be your best friends, your colleagues, I know I know they're more in the wrong. I know, I know, I know I hear you, I feel you, I do.
Speaker 1:But if we as a people, and all of us, were to just look in the mirror at ourselves, as I said before, we would be more willing to stop pointing fingers at everybody else. And if it's me and you in this dispute, if it's me and you who are having this argument, and we both stop pointing fingers at each other, so like I know it's for 60 40 right, where I'm 60 wrong and you're 40 wrong, I get it right. I'm more wrong than you are. I get it. I get it. But what happens if both of us stop pointing fingers, bro? The argument would be over like that. The yelling would stop, the fighting would stop, the wars would stop, the killing would stop, bro, oh my God. The killing would stop and and conversation would be had, constructive criticism would start to. We would finally be in a place where constructive criticism can be given and it can be accepted.
Speaker 1:It'll it's now able to be received on both sides, because I'm no longer pointing my finger at you, I'm now pointing my finger at myself. I'm looking in the mirror at myself to see where I went wrong. Now you don't, even now I can come to you you who is 40% wrong, me who is 60, right. I can now come to you and apologize to you. I can tell you hey, listen, I know I said this, I know I said this and that and I know it hurts your feelings and I am so sorry, man, I'm so sorry that I said that. I'm so sorry I did that. I'm so sorry I hurt you with this and that, and you'll be able to receive that. And then now you're gonna turn around and tell me but you know what, you're right, but I also did this and I also did that. I said this, I said that and I know that hurt you also and I'm sorry, bro, the fight's not done. Right there, the the fighting is over.
Speaker 1:Imagine a world where we all were willing to do that. Imagine a world where we were all willing to take that route. You know, this is not even where I intended. Like I be coming to these podcasts with a whole outline and stuff, bro, I haven't looked at it once. Like is from my heart, bro. This is in my heart. Accountability, each one, teach one and each one take accountability. That's in my heart, bro, that's that. That's a part of the, the makeup of my very being. It's who I've become. It's not who I've always been, but it is who I have become. I have I'm personally. I got tired of things, of ruining good things, friendships, good jobs, good relationships, friendships, good jobs, good relationships. I got tired of being a part of what ruined a good thing.
Speaker 1:So many of us are not talking to each other and I said this in the last episode as well, the last chronicle so many of us are not talking to each other. So many of us are not speaking to one another. So many of us have decided to go our separate ways. And yes, I know, a lot of times it's warranted and I know not everybody is meant to be in your life forever. Not everybody, right? I mean, how many friends do you still have from college, right? How many friends are still close with you? Best friends that you had in high school are still your best friend? You know, not all of them, right? Maybe you got a few, but how many good things have we walked away from because we just decided to agree to disagree, and a lot of times it wasn't even an agreement to disagree. A lot of times it was a blow up that led to the breakup, right? But what if we all decided to change how we went about this and how we looked at it, how we viewed it? What if we all did that? We would be living in a much better world. I promise you that we'd be living in a much better world.
Speaker 1:Accountability the fact or condition of taking responsibility world Accountability the fact or condition of taking responsibility. Accountability is the quality or state of being accountable, or the obligation or willingness to accept the responsibility. How many of us are willing? We may see how beneficial it can be, but are we willing to put it into action on a day-to-day basis? Am I willing to now look at, am I listening to this now? Am I moved by this enough to be the bigger person who reaches out to that other person? You know, if you were to take accountability and the other person is not willing to do it, that's okay, bro.
Speaker 1:Clear your heart, clear your conscious. Clear your mind, man. Clear your mind, clear your heart. God is not going to judge you for what they do to you. God is not going to judge you for how you treat them and how you have dealt with them. God is not going to judge you for whether or not they took accountability for their actions. He's going to look at you for what you did. He's going to deal with you for how you dealt with them. So let's keep that in mind. I have a quote, a last quote I have here Take accountability, because blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships have drowned.
Speaker 1:Drowned, blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships have drowned. I think about the dreams that a lot of us have had the visions, man, the plans, the ideas, and maybe you were partnered with someone else or whatever the case may be, the relationships, all the different, all these different things that have gone down the drain. They have been drowned, they have been ruined, because I was too concerned with blaming you and you were too concerned with blaming you and you were too concerned with blaming me, when, in actuality, if we could have just both taken accountability for our wrong man, we could still be brother and sister. You and that person could still be together. You know that one that got away. Bro, I'm married, you know, and we, but we all have that right. My wife has that. You know what I'm saying. You have that, I have that. We all have been through that.
Speaker 1:And, yes, I know a lot of things aren't meant to be, and so on, so forth. We get. You know, I know a lot of people think like that, but you know what? We're all given a choice, bro, and god is he's not god is giving us the choice to do the things that we want to do. I always say, bro, you let people do what they want to do. That way, they show you what they rather do. People will show you who they are. They will show you what they want to do. Somebody wants you in their life. They'll show you.
Speaker 1:This is a good way to um, keep these good things that we have being willing to take accountability, being able to look in the mirror, because it starts with us. It starts with us. It starts with us. I believe it starts with us. Maybe that's an unpopular opinion, but, my brother, my sister, your day, your day, your day starts and it ends with you. It starts and it ends with you and it's up to you to be the captain of your life. And I talked about the fact that our moral compass, everybody's moral compass is driven and it's steered by something right or someone and the different values and principles and things that we hold dear to us. That's what. That's what makes up our moral compass, our inner guide, right? I just wanted to encourage somebody. This is the Moral Compass Chronicles and this is the Accountability Series.
Speaker 1:I'm not even sure if I need to do another one specifically on accountability, but I guess, if I'm led to speak a little bit further on it, I will. But this right here, man, this is. I pray this can be an eye opener for somebody because it can truly change your life. This perspective shift can truly change your life, change your perspective. You'll change your life. It's going to change how you deal with people on a day-to-day basis. It's going to change how you disagree with people. It's gonna change how you communicate during disagreements, during disputes, when somebody hurts you, when you hurt someone else. This changes, this perspective changes how you deal with that. This can be the difference between you and your mother, who you haven't spoken to, hugging each other for the first time in years. This can be the difference between you and your spouse, who just can't seem to figure it out together. This will solve that problem, bro. This will solve that problem. I blame you, you blame me, this solves that problem. I blame you, you blame me, this solves that problem. And so I pray somebody is encouraged by this man.
Speaker 1:This is the Moral Compass Chronicles, and let's just stay on this journey together. Let's stay on this journey together and if you don't have anything or anyone who's leading you in the right direction, to sort of be a part of the right things and keep your mind in the right pointed, in the right direction, going, you know, to make the decisions and and sort of help you make the decisions that don't just benefit you but benefit everybody around you, which in turn benefits you, just stick with me. Stick with me because I'm never going to give anybody any advice, and I always say this to my little brothers and sisters bro, like, have I ever said anything that's going to lead you astray? Bro, have I ever said anything and told you to do anything that's going to hurt you for real? No, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:And if you esteem someone higher than yourself and they decide to take advantage of that, that's on them, that's not on you. You're doing what you're supposed to do, and if you do that and you notice that that's a person who's unwilling to change. Now you can you know, you can know that you did your part, and then you move on accordingly. That's, quite frankly, what it comes down to. I love you guys. I appreciate each and every one of you. If you're still listening, I appreciate you and every one of you. If you're still listening, I appreciate you, and until next time. It's the moral compass Chronicles.