Believe it or not having someone hold you accountable will put major pressure on you to succeed. Use it to your advantage!
I know you can feel the anxiety coming from someone yelling at you to take action, let alone someone you know is counting on your for the same advice. Use that anxiety to take action. Don’t let it cripple you or intimidated you from finding someone that will push you to your best. Let’s face it, too many people have become lazy and comfortably miserable stuck in their own routines that lead to an average life without much action. Why would you want this to be you? Average? No thanks. Don’t be scared of someone holding you accountable, be scared of not trying hard enough. (Cliché?).
There are so many benefits to finding an accountability partner. I’m not going to outline them, but I summarized them in the first sentence. You want an accountability partner to make sure you have your visions, goals, and plans on point, along with taking action. Action is the most important step, which most people never do because they have no reason to push them. When you have someone there, waiting, and constantly asking you about your progress, I promise you will find a way to make things happen.
“Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal”
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Characteristics of a Great Accountability Partner
Finding an accountability partner is hard and most often won’t be a close friend. Look for someone with these characteristics:
Similar Path as Yours
Find someone that is on a similar path as you. Not the same path, but someone who is looking to succeed or has success in the same steps. They can either help you with your goals or they can be overcoming the same obstacles as you. You also want to keep in mind that when they choose you as your accountability partner, you are becoming theirs. You have to work just as hard on pushing them, which is a great advantage. When you are pushing someone else to be their best, you want to ask yourself if you are taking your own advice and action. Therefore, you are holding yourself accountable when holding someone else to their goals.
That Motivates and Intimidates you
Your accountability partner should motivate you with a small amount of intimidation.
This SO IMPORTANT. Why would you want to be intimidated by someone? Because there is no worse feeling than being intimidated. Not selling you on the idea yet? Think about it, when you are intimidated you either 1. Run from the situation or 2. Become better by learning more and pushing yourself harder than ever before to match their grind. Stick with number 2 and you will always reach your goals.
These accountability partners most likely show behavior of success and hard work in your eyes, in which case, you might show the same to them. You learn by their example (as long as it’s good) and you become your best teacher while also teaching them.
You Both Want Success for Each Other
You want them to want you to succeed as much as you want them to succeed.
It can’t be a one-sided relationship. If you are constantly feeding their success and they are doing nothing for yours, you become an unofficial employee of theirs. You want to be able to discuss ideas, be able to improve each other’s ideas from different point of views, and you want to make sure both are doing what they said they would. Remember, success breeds success, so feed off of each other and make sure they succeed and you will succeed.
Finding a person with these important characteristics can be hard. The sad reality is unfortunately our closest friends are usually not the ones that turn into great accountability partners. Friends love us the way we are, and the minute we change they become discouraging to inhibit success or become obstacles that do not understand your thinking.
This is why it is so important for you to find someone that wants someone to hold you accountable and not be afraid of pushing you, even if you do get mad. Don’t rely on your friends, rely on a hard-working accountability partner that is as driven as you are.
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