What does accountability look like for you?
Here are some examples of what accountability looks like for me:
- Setting a weekly goal on Sunday evenings that I post on an index card near my desk and reserving time on Saturdays to reflect on progress and learnings
- Checking off tick boxes on my “dailies” list to hold me responsible for the small consistent habits that make up my regular grind
- Making commitments to my business partner and having a mutual working agreement that we hold each other accountable
- Kicking off Wednesdays with a video chat with my creative collaborator who has a knack for asking insightful and challenging questions that nudge or slingshot me forward
- Wearing a FitBit and tracking a few key metrics related to my health and fitness goals
- Being a member of a “run club”: my dogs remind me every day around 11 am that it’s a great day for a trail run, regardless of the weather
- Calling my best friend every weekend, mostly to chit chat, but also to check up on personal commitments and check in on how we are doing
- Having blog readers and mailing list members who expect a daily musing from me, which means I best show up day-in and day-out to write (you might not have known you are my accountability buddy!)
If you want to take responsibility, then practice accountability.
Accountability can look like a lot of different things for different people and can take many forms. The trick is in figuring out which forms work for you so you can build your accountability system around those.
