Category: Personal Accountability
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Juggling Projects through Accountability
Life never stops so we can spend time doing what we really want to do. The things that are important to us often require more time than we have. Accountability can help us squeeze in everything we want do. Here’s how.
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Be Accountable, Avoid Regret
My accountability buddy asked me what project is most important to me. I said I would prioritize writing a blog article. Immediately, I contradicted myself, saying that my highest “regret factor” would point me to a different project. What’s a “regret factor?”
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Getting Our Sh*t Together with Accountability
When we find ourselves distracted, unmotivated, and not living the life we want to, how do we get our sh*t together? Kenny Bender and I have some thoughts to share.
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Clean Your Plate—A Bad Accountability Technique?
“Clean your plate” is an ingrained accountability technique left over from childhood. In one sense, this accountability technique is a good idea—clear your figurative plate of one project before starting another. That’s a fine goal, but the technique is mediocre at best. Why?
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Discipline, Accountability, and Resolutions
Western culture has a romanticized ideal of what discipline means. We think of discipline as an iron will to overcome obstacles and resistance to do the very hard thing that we want to achieve. We think discipline is hunkering down and punishing ourselves—because we believe no good thing is achieved without sacrifice and hard work.
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The Karate Kid—Accountability Techniques at the Movies
“The Karate Kid” is a coming of age story — Daniel changes from seeing himself as the victim to being “the leading man in his own life,” to borrow a phrase from The Holiday. But the story teaches accountability lessons as well.
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Using Accountability for Financial Planning
In modern life, planning is required to smoothly transition from one phase of life to the next. But planning is easy to put off. How do we use accountability techniques to prepare for the future?
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Why Homework Matters: Building Discipline and Accountability
We understand implicitly that if we want to defeat a video game, we need to spend many hours playing and mastering it. Why have we lost sight of the importance of repetition in school work?
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Why Is Accountability to Others So Powerful?
Often the strongest accountability we can have involves least one other person. Why is that? Why are we so much more likely to be accountable to others rather than ourselves?
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Accountability from a Rival’s Challenge
A rival’s challenge is a strong accountability technique to use for substantial motivation. But can we cause a rival to challenge us and still feel the challenge is organic and real?
The Accountability Stop 