How to start holding yourself accountable to achieve your goals
- Edith Eunice Winseth
- Mar 30, 2022
- 2 min read
#Accountability is a term that is tossed around rather often when talking about outcomes and failures. Recognizing your faults and wrongdoings is part of holding yourself accountable.
However, much less is said on how to use accountability to achieve what it is you have set yourself to, or as a strategy to get motivated. Humbling yourself and examining your current state is part of the process. Also, getting comfortable with the uncomfortable must be taken as a given. Finally, having a strategy is of the essence.
Ego will kill you
It is often said that ego will kill you. I could not agree more with such statement. Ask yourself how many things you are not pursuing because you feel ashamed to, or do not start because deep down you think they are beneath you. That is your ego doing its job, of course, protecting you from what it thinks it's a threat to your public image, status, you name it. Nevertheless, if you do not keep that thing checked, it might be sabotaging you. So, take a moment to assess if ego is what is keeping you stuck. Recognize toxic mindsets, preconceived ideas, and lies that have become your mental program, and start tearing them down. At the end of the day, it is ten times better to keep your ego in check than to get checked by someone else. One cannot go down the road of accountability if we keep thinking we are above reproach or beyond perfection.
Anticipate being uncomfortable. I have written about comfort zones before. If you have not read my article on that, you can check it here.
Being comfortable with the uncomfortable is where one should strive to be, at least in my opinion. Embracing challenges, change, and risk that is the name of the game for me. There is just no other way around it. Accepting the reality of how hard it is to chase excellence will make it easier for you.
The pain and pleasure dynamic is a concept I have been using for ages. When the pleasure of the outcome of doing something does not motivate me enough, I resort to the pain that the result of not doing it will bring me, which often scares the heck out of me and gets me going. Here is a video that explains it clearly and can help you use this method. This might be the best strategy for holding yourself accountable and using accountability as a means to achieve your goals.
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