Who Are You Accountable To?

The toughest person to be accountable to, is our selves in most cases. I know there are a few people out there who were just born with the nature ability to hold them selves to the highest level of accountability all the times, but for me it can be very difficult. I create call lists or to-do lists, and intent to get through them, but a lot of days, it seems that I let my self off on some of the items, for reasons that are really quite poor and unjustifiable.

As part of my business and the service that we provide to our clients, it is my job to hold them accountable to their goals and to do lists on usually a weekly basis. The problem that can occur for me, if I don't stay on top of it, is that I can right down and help my clients to stay accountable to their goals, but never write down my own goals or to do lists and give them to somebody else to hold me accountable. Sure I have a list in my head, but when more "important" things come up, it is amazing how my subconscious will alter or loss my goals and lists, so it can justify why I did not get done what I told myself I would.

I have a new plan starting today, to combat this recurring problem for myself. I will write down my call and to-do list, every morning and email to at least two different people on my team that I trust can keep me accountable. I have an agreement with them to hold them accountable to their own daily activity list as well. At the end of the day, I will email these people with the results of what I accomplished or they will call me and ask me why I did not accomplish these items. The expected result is that I will get much more done then I have been, if for no other reason, is that I told another person I would, and I don't want to disappoint them.

Since is the first day of, I don't have any results to talk about. However, if you are not getting the results out of your self that you know that you are capable of, find somebody who is as driven as you are and make some sort a agreement with them so that you can hold each other accountable. Our Little Voices can and do lie to us all the time. At least if you write down and make an external source hold you accountable, you can catch when your Little Voice lies to us more often.