Here are 7 guidelines that will help you unleash the power of personal accountability to take ownership for your actions, decisions, successes and failures.
1) Redefine accountability.
Staying true to yourself and your goals should not be drudgery. You must view your accountability as a gift to yourself, a voluntary mindset to ensure success, not something you’re force-feeding yourself even though you hate it.
2) Act as if your life depended on it.
If your life depended on it, would you come up with a new idea or strategy to save yourself? Absolutely. While your life may not be at risk, your happiness and success are.
“We either believe in accountability or we don’t.”
– Dana Loesch
3) Don’t let your circumstances control you.
Whether you get off the couch on your own or require a little nudge from somewhere else, the point is to get out there and do something.
4) You must want it.
Everything will exact a certain price from you—energy, effort, patience, resources. Success comes when you hit a tipping point and begin to desire your goal more than you dread the cost of reaching it.
5) Don’t let obstacles pull you down.
It seems that tough problems and challenging obstacles have enough mass to pull you away from getting what you want. Don’t give in.
6) Breakthrough requires a bold stroke.
When you discover your own internal power, you see that you have the right, the ability, even the obligation, to create your own best reality.
7) Make it happen!
It’s called making a choice and acting on it. You have the choice to fulfill your aspirations or wallow in the blame game and victim cycle.
True success doesn’t come from the outside but from within. Taking greater personal accountability is the key to succeeding in everything you do.