Tag: personal-development
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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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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 Technique: Get Hired
Could we find a job aligned with the goal we want to be accountable for? We could get paid to do the very thing we want to be doing anyway.
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SPUR Accountability Technique
Often we consider whether or not to take action in the moment. We consider two futures—one where we take the action and one where we don’t. Then we consider how the two outcomes will look to our future selves or others in our lives.
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Moxie and Personal Accountability
When it comes to our personal desires and aspirations, we can’t be supporting characters. We must take the initiative ourselves or we will forever live inside our small comfort zone. We will live lives that others choose for us.
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Is “Accountability” the Wrong Word?
Arguing about definitions doesn’t help us finish the work we want to be accountable for, so why bother talking about it? Hear me out, it might have more impact than we think.
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How to Successfully Be Personally Accountable Online
Using the internet for personal accountability is powerful, but think through a few aspects first!
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Taking Your Personal Accountability Public
A 2009 study said that our brains feel the same reward for telling someone about a goal we want to achieve as when we actually achieve it. I’m no behavioral expert, but I’m dubious nonetheless.
The Accountability Stop 