Your accountability partner keeps you on track and moving
forward in all aspects of your development. – Mike Staver
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing – that’s why we
recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
Accountability: The missing link in achieving your health and
fitness goals. – thehumbledhomemaker.com
People
who wrote down their goals were 42% more likely to achieve them than the ones
who didn't. Telling a friend increases this rate to 78%. - Brian McCormick
As a goal-driven
and pretty disciplined individual, I have never had an accountability partner. I know what my dreams are and work towards
accomplishing my goals to achieve my dreams. However, this year I had a friend ask if I
would be interested in being accountability partners and I said yes. The plan was to meet once to discuss our
goals for the year and then weekly we would communicate via email to discuss
our progress.
With it being only
a month into the year, I have to say it has taken my drive to accomplish my
goals to a whole new level! For example,
I have a goal to cook or bake something every week. I have gotten away from both activities since
I do not have anyone to cook or bake for and need to work on developing my
skills again. Knowing that I will have
to give an update to my accountability partner sometime in the week, I am
challenged to make sure I am working on this goal as it would be an easy goal to
dismiss.
And by having this
goal, I had a first in my life…I was told by a friend that I was not allowed to
make Oreo truffles for a while because they were amazing and way too easy to
devour all of them!
Challenge: Would having an accountability partner assist you
in accomplishing your 2018 goals? If so,
start thinking about a colleague or friend who you could ask to be your
accountability partner.
Next
week, I will give some tips and guidelines on how to set up an accountability
partnership.
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