# Taking 100% responsibility for where you are

- **Episode:** [181](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/181.md) (2025-03-20)
- **Type:** interview
- **Tags:** responsibility, mindset, personal-growth
- **Time:** 8:24–10:28 (start 504s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/181?t=504](https://truthliesandwork.com/181?t=504)

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[8:24] Al Elliott: And so let's go back to that thing you were just talking about there. So you were saying that you were basically living for your weekend in the corporate environment. You wish you knew what you knew now for the corporate environment, that work can be fun. Is there anything, any advice for someone listening who does work in that kind of environment? Can they control it themselves? Can they make work fun themselves? Does it have to come from an organizational level?
[8:46] Steve Carse: You definitely are 100% responsible for what you're doing. So That is where I think you need to start instead of just kind of complaining about your unpleasant boss or work environment or whatever. So yeah, I mean, I think that the easiest kind of first steps when I'm chatting with people about this are to find a project that you can take ownership in. And it doesn't have to be like even your core thing, something that you feel like If you said, hey, can I just own this? Can this be my thing? I think that's really the fastest way to begin the process of making things more fun. 'Cause there's a lot of downstream effects on that. You get to kind of inject how you would do it. They'll start to take pride in it, which is kind of the positive result of once you do own something and you enjoy how that is going
[9:42] Al Elliott: Yeah
[9:43] Steve Carse: I think the other thing that is worth saying is just, it's not ever perfect and it's not, it's a process. Like, just like anything, we work on our relationships with our friends and family. We work on our relationships with money. We work on our relationship with our health and what we eat. And work is this thing where we are devoting such a large portion of our time to whether we want to or not, why wouldn't we also work on and try to figure out how to make that be a more enjoyable process?
[10:21] Al Elliott: So let's get onto when you took your first employee. If I've understood this correctly, it was you and your brother started this?