It Starts With You

More and more often the words Proactive and Accountability are coming up in my life. I'm not sure if it's due to the stage I'm in at this point in my life (40 year old, Husband and 'accountability partner' of 1, Father of 4 boys, thru my profession of financial cybersecurity, compliance, and risk etc) or if the words just have more meaning because of the desire to act on them.

The definition of Accountability is an obligation and willingness to accept responsibility. Being Proactive is defined as acting in anticipation of future problems needs or changes.

Many of us like to think, or make the assumption, that we're proactive but in the ever changing world around us, with vast amounts of data, visuals, technology and noise that encompasses us constantly, we're so often forced to react vs. acting with anticipation. Often the anticipation comes by way of something we want (want to happen, want to have or want to think) and find ourselves scared or apprehensive of what we don't know about or don't already know of; the unknown.

The point of this comes from a quote I read today that read "Most of the time, there's nothing much that we need to "do" other than get out of our own way"

Get - Out - of - Our - Own - Way... huh

So with "proactive accountability" in focus, here's a chance to check in with your Self. Turn off the noice around you. Take a deep breath (now take another breath but this time get air to places that have missed being filled). And remember that if there's no beginning then there's no place to start.

It Starts With YOU. Are you ready to move from where you stand?

Let Go and Let's Go.