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Accountability: Episode 38: Today we are talking about accountability.  Accountability to yourself, to others and to God.

We have been struggling with being consistent, not only with weight loss and health journey stuff, but the things that tend to go hand in hand with that, like personal development, professional development, and faith.  All of those things are disciplines, that if not executed on daily, they slip.

It’s important to have an accountability buddy, someone who sees through your struggle and pushes you to make it out the other side.  We are that for each other, what gets us in trouble is when we both are having weak moments.    Usually, we can help the other see the goals and get back on track.

According to  https://www.developgoodhabits.com/accountability-partner/ “an accountability partner is like a partnership where you mutually agree to coach each other and provide feedback on a regular basis. With an accountability partner, you each agree to talk daily or weekly through feedback sessions where you share wins and talk about your current challenges.”  Meeting and discussing where you are with your goals is a step you should not take out.  It is easy to say you are accountable to someone, but if there isn’t regular feedback, you are missing it. 

Next is accountability to yourself.  This is called taking ownership, it comes in not only when you are doing well, but also when you are failing or have failed.  You make the choice to get back up and keep going.  “When people don't take accountability and things, start to go awry, as they don't feel ownership they go into spectator mode and watch as things fail.  If they thought it would fail from the outset it's even worse; they go into I told you so mode, which nearly always becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.” (Leadership Principles by Gordon Tredgold)  So how many times have you set out on a road just expecting to fail?  New job, weight loss, ministry, being a better person?  It is hard, but you have to believe that you can do it and take ownership and accountability of the process, including the ups and downs, but not accepting failure as the end.

Lastly, but not least.  Accountability to God.  Sounds much more scary, it shouldn’t.  God loves us and desires for us to live a full life.  He gave us amazing bodies and minds to accomplish great things.  Don’t waste that time.

Verse: Hebrews 10:24

Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.

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