Who's Responsible for Your Success?

The title of this post is a question I believe is asked often. It's asked mostly subconciously (my opinion). And the way it's answered is incorrectly (my opinion again). Being that this is a real estate blog, we could answer the question from a real estate professional's standpoint or a Broker's standpoint or a real estate info tech's standpoint ~ fill in the blank. (Of course, you can answer the question from your own standpoint no matter what your career field, position or background.) Since I'm a real estate IT guy, I'm going to roleplay an answer from my vantage point. This is how I'm convinced the question's most often answered (at least initially) by the high percentage of people: "Who's responsible for my success? Of course, it's my boss who is, first of all. Right? And then it's my co-workers. They just better treat me right and not give me any guff and be nice to me or it'll hinder my success. (Don't they know?) And then there's the website and blog traffic (since I oversee those). And people just better get with it and visit the sites, click on the links, read the posts, contact agents to view and then purchase homes, etc. After all, it's my success we're talking about (that hinges on it)." And I could go on, but I hope you get the point. And the wrong of my answer is I focused on everyone else except ___ (fill in the blank). Two-letter word. Choose from: (a) me; (b) me; (c) me. And why is it that we look everywhere else and blame everyone else, when we, ourselves, are ultimately the ones who bear the primary responsibility for our success or lack thereof?