12 Thoughts on Why You Need to Be Accountable

12. You need someone who can keep you morally centered. This person has your respect and cares enough to ask you hard questions. Repeatedly. 

11. Success eventually leads to pride. You may not think this will happen to you, but it will. 

10. The antidote to pride is making yourself humble. The making is never a one-time occurrence. With each success, humility becomes increasingly important.

9. Humility before God starts with humility before man. 

8. The lynchpin to personal humility is making yourself accountable. 

7. If your accountability is fun, you are not doing it right. It’s hard. This is why so few are willing to do it. 

6. No man stands before God and says, “This is a good time.” The same with putting yourself in accountability to another.

5. Holding another accountable starts with asking hard questions. It demands you ask those questions over and over. Then pray and love and continue through human frailty. 

4. When you find someone willing to take on the task of holding you accountable, don’t take it lightly.

3. Treat your accountability relationship as gold. Treasure it.

2. My personal accountability continues to be the maximizer from which all other achievements flow.

1. Personal accountability will maximize your success. Throw it aside and risk everything you hold dear. 

Mike Blake, CFA, ASA, ABAR, BVIUK

Business Valuation, Appraisal & Advisor Guiding Clients to Winning Decisions ?? Acquisitions, Mergers, Exits, Investments, Compliance, & Reporting, Emerging & Bio Tech ?? Speaker & Writer ?? CFA, ASA, ABAR, BVIUK, MBA

2 年

We adopted Entrepreneurial Operating System to foster accountability (but not weaponize it). It has been transformative for my business and my life. I make fewer commitments but the ones I make are locks.

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Nat Milburn

Real Estate Advisor at Engel & V?lkers Atlanta | Expert in Sales and Client Relations

2 年

Charlie, thank you for your post and for stimulating the conversation on accountability. The truth of the axioms and insights you've shared echo greatly in my experiences - both in the seasons of failure and moments of success. My capacity for humility has always had a direct correlation to my ability to embrace and grow from the most beneficial (typically painful) feedback. Your note has reminded me to thank my accountability partners more frequently. Thank you for taking the time to share your heart and the lessons learned with us.

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It's amazing how many leaders get taken out by their lack of accountability and the humility it requires. You are world class at asking the tough questions that good humility invites, Charlie. Thanks for modeling that.

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