COMMANDMENT SIX: Thou Shalt Remain Accountable

Accountability often seals the deal on our success. AND it’s what most of us dread!

In his new book, “The 4-Hour Body,” Tim Ferriss talks about accountability systems that have proven extremely effective for weight loss, including:

• Posting your goals to a public forum like Facebook or a Goal Announcement website
• Creating a private group or email list for you and your friends where you update them on your goal and s#@! talk them in the process so that you’ll never live it down if you don’t succeed
• Creating an Accountability Group with weekly calls and/or have a buddy you talk to each morning and each evening

I encourage you to adopt at least one of these as you begin executing and moving toward your goals. This will ensure that you take action on what you learn and that your actions breed progress and profits.

At the least, I highly recommend you have an accountability partner. He or she will hold you accountable to the tasks you assign yourself each day. You can focus only on your business tasks, however I prefer to include personal goals and tasks as well since it’s all LIFE and a better life is really the BIG goal here!

And just to be clear: Your accountability partner is not here to pass judgment, give you another hand to beat yourself up with, or to nag you into doing what you otherwise would not do. These are all inappropriate uses for an accountability partner and will invalidate its effectiveness.

Instead, your accountability partner is there solely to train you to do what Wallace Wattles calls “acting in a way that causes you to more than fill your present place” in his book, “The Science of Getting Rich.” This allows you to exude a certain essence that, when encountered by others, will inspire them to want to work with you, help you, or profoundly change their own lives and ways of being as a result of encountering you.