Tag: Motivation
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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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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?
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Keeping Accountable at Work
How should we view accountability at work? How does accountability move from one person or team to another until we achieve the desired result?
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Shiny New Accountability System!
Is trying out a new task list system a good idea? Or is it just a shiny new object distracting from our goals?
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