Accountability Partner – Why having one is so important if you want to grow personally

The reality for every person that I've met so far in my life is the following: Everybody needs at least one person to hold him/her accountable for achieving goals is life.

You probably know this from so many situations in life: If other people are watching you or even if you just feel others might be watching, you perform so much better. If you expect guest you clean up your apartment/house. If there is a big audience you perform better at sports.

The key is to use this principle and make it a regular system so it works on your behalf. How do you do it? By setting regular appointments with at least one accountability partner to analyse how you are performing against your goals.

David Deida described it in his book "The Way of the Superior Man" as follows: "Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow. Good friends should not tolerate mediocrity in one another. If you are at your edge, your men friends should respect that, but not let you off the hook."

How does this work in practice? Let's say you are afraid of public speaking. So you set yourself the goal of speaking in public three times a week. At the end of each week you meet up with your accountability partner and talk about your progress. If you failed to achieve the goal in one week you'll have to do five speeches the next week. Once you feel that the goal is not challenging enough anymore, you might want to move on to other areas in your life that you desire to improve.

As with every post on this blog, the most important thing is that you TAKE ACTION. Don't just read this post but really DO IT. Call some friends, share the knowledge and set up a regular (weekly or fortnightly time) in which you just talk about your life goals and keep each other on track. You'll be amazed about the outcomes.