<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Early Jackson - motivational speaker &#038; author" title="Early Jackson" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/early-jackson-13.jpg" />If you were raised in a family with other siblings chances are you have played the blame game a time or two. In fact, more than we all would care to admit, when confronted by a parent with the question, “Who did this?” we quickly replied “Not me.” </p>
<p>As I have raised my children past the age of running around the house like a tornado, I have had my share of conversations about this mysterious person, “Not Me.” It is no wonder once we grow up we still have a tendency to shift the blame to a fictitious character. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/02/success-lesson-3-ways-to-ditch-the-blame-game/" title="Permanent Link: Success Lesson: 3 Ways To Ditch The Blame Game" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2118,"date":"2014-02-27T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2021-01-17T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:38:57","slug":"success-lesson-3-ways-to-ditch-the-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/02\/success-lesson-3-ways-to-ditch-the-blame-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Lesson: 3 Ways To Ditch The Blame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Early Jackson - motivational speaker &#038; author\" title=\"Early Jackson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/early-jackson-13.jpg\" \/>If you were raised in a family with other siblings chances are you have played the blame game a time or two. In fact, more than we all would care to admit, when confronted by a parent with the question, \u201cWho did this?\u201d we quickly replied \u201cNot me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As I have raised my children past the age of running around the house like a tornado, I have had my share of conversations about this mysterious person, \u201cNot Me.\u201d It is no wonder once we grow up we still have a tendency to shift the blame to a fictitious character. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/02\/success-lesson-3-ways-to-ditch-the-blame-game\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Success Lesson: 3 Ways To Ditch The Blame Game\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}