Accountability in Life

ACCOUNTABILITY

We all have to be 100% accountable to ourselves 100% of the time.

That is to say, You are in full control of your own life. You make the decisions that control what you do and where your life goes, and how you behave. No-one else makes those decisions for you. It's all you. Your life is 100% your responsibility. Even if others attempt to coerce you, you still have the final decision.

I was listening to the prominent speaker and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck. He was saying in this particular talk about how important it is for you to take full accountability for your own actions. Because “we have no-one to blame for our lack of success but ourselves”. And, we don't. For the sake of repeating myself, it's all on you.

So, own it.

The problem with most of us, is that taking that step to make ourselves accountable puts us outside our personal comfort zone. We just don't want to do it.

Another prominent speaker that I listen to frequently, Tony Robins, talks about how we have a tendency to run away from our fears. We box ourselves into a particular lifestyle. We tell ourselves over and over that this is all that we can do, and this is all that we will ever become. As a behaviour pattern, it becomes ingrained into our personality, because as an individual we fear exiting our personal space to head into the “unknown”. We simply get into a “comfort zone” and never want to leave it.

But, is this really true?

NO!

To become successful at whatever we want to do (be it business, weight loss or a fitness goal, anything we chose it to be)....

To become the best version of ourselves...

We need to push out of our comfort zone.

Take accountability for our actions and decisions.

A helpful thing to do here can be to take time to meditate on what thoughts and emotions are going through us. Allow those negative feelings and thoughts to leave us, instead of dwelling on them.

David Goggins has said in one of his amazingly powerful speeches, “The most important conversation you will ever have is the one you have with yourself”. And this is very true. However, what is he actually meaning with this statement? He is referring to the conversation that will turn your life around. This will be the conversation that you wake up with. The one that you will walk around talking to yourself with. And, eventually you will have to act on it. This is the conversation that you will have within yourself that finally makes you realise that it's time to move forward and leave the bad behaviours, the self hate, the negative people in your rear view mirror, and take accountability for making yourself into a better person.

To do this, you will have to delve into what's termed the “sewer” of your mind.... and fix things inside You.

The downside to this is that most of us are afraid to take accountability for our own lives and actually do what needs to be done. We're scared of what it might show in relation to the “real us”. Because what's really inside our own personal “sewer' is yucky and messy. And, scares the crap out of each and every one of us. But, only initially....

Taking accountability starts with...

“This is who I am.”

“And this is where I have to fix myself.”

Take some time for yourself. Meditate, as I said earlier, and reset your thoughts and emotions.

Use some meditation and self reflection time every day to simply re-focus. Let your thoughts flow. Even the negative ones. This is the time to let all that out of your head, and the best way for this to happen is open those gates and let the “sewer' flow out. It will be awful at the start. You won't like some of it. And you will want to stop. Just know that it gets easier.

I teach my clients to use a notebook. Every day write down what is in their heads, be it good or bad. Just write. The action of writing those thoughts down has been proven time and time again to allow the brain to filter them out of daily thinking so that the negative affects us less and less.

Each day is a new day.With the opportunity for a new start.

To get that new start, you must make yourself 100% accountable to You.

I would encourage you to contact me through my website to learn how to use some of these tools to take that first step to becoming that new and better you.