Accountability is Your Responsibility
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Sir Winston Churchill
I’m going to explain the importance of accountability by having you ask and answer this one question:
What’s the point making a commitment, making a promise or even setting a goal if you have no intention of honoring, keeping or achieving them?
Accountability is the quality or state of being accountable; especially: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions.
Accountability serves and protects your character, credibility and all of your commitments. It’s like an insurance an insurance policy that ensures that what you want to accomplish…gets accomplished.
It’s important to understand that all unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the result of broken promises and agreements.
The list includes marriages, college educations, weight loss, sales production and any other commitment that one may enter into.
Reflect for just a moment on the last time you entered into an agreement with someone thinking you understood the terms…and then suddenly the tables were turned unexpectedly.
How did you feel? I bet angry, furious, disappointed, or perhaps even shocked at the other person’s audacity not to hold up their end of the bargain.
“Most goals are not finished, they’re abandoned.” — Gary Ryan Blair
If you’ve got a great goal, idea or opportunity but do not have personal accountability to see it through to the end, you really don’t have much!
Unaccountable people make excuses, blame others, put things off, act confused and play helpless. They pretend to be ignorant, and often hide behind their computers, paperwork, and jargon.
It’s a disease, one that can sink a business, a family and a life if not cured.
Your biggest concern in any goal setting initiative is not with your skill, ability, or intelligence — it’s with your commitment.
Unless you are committed, and hold yourself personally accountable for the results you promised there would be a sense of negligence to everything you do, not to mention a permanent stain on your character.
Accountability means that the task will be accomplished — on time, on budget, as promised. Pulling your own weight is your responsibility.
The buck really does stop with you, and that’s why you must always do what you say you are going to do.
Personal accountability is what achievement is all about. The moments you feel like quitting are the times you must take a flashlight to your soul and inspect yourself for will, courage, and spirit.
You cannot afford to tarnish your own reputation with yourself by doing something so lame as quitting just because things got difficult.
Personal accountability is the countdown clock of your goal. It starts ticking the second you begin and stops when you achieve the goal or quit.
Your daily challenge is to enforce accountability in all areas of your life. You must honor your commitments, keep your promises, and achieve every goal you set.
If accountability is applied equally and consistently, at all times, it is the enforcement tool that will help keep you on track and forever moving north in the direction of your dreams.
It is a tool that, when universally applied, will change the way you think and act and, ultimately, the results you produce. It will help transform you into a dynamic, unstoppable results oriented machine!
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Gary Ryan Blair is creator of the 100 Day Challenge…a radical approach to goal achievement that shows people how to achieve 10X size goals by applying the methods and best practices of growth hacking. Get all the details here.
