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Getting Personal with Accountability

We are in the last quarter of #Vision2020 and it has been an unbelievable year of events for the history books.  I hope everyone is to finish out this year strong on the way to the vision everyone has hoped for. Some of you may have let the idea of #Vision2020 go already and are thinking maybe 2021 will be better. It is hard to discuss goal achievement without discussing personal accountability.

In our minds, accountability may be this thing you associate with work or school, but the truth is accountability is in all aspects of our life. Having someone else to hold you accountable can be great and can move you along, especially at the beginning, but ultimately having your own sense of accountability is the thing that keeps you honest in all aspects of your life, especially when you are trying to achieve a goal.

If your #Vision2020 included saving money for something specific, if you choose not to save as you had planned, ultimately you will not achieve the goal. If your vision included a health and wellness goal, you may not see the progress you had hoped for. Getting off track for a day or a week may not derail your goal, but it will delay your goal by a week. Getting off track for a month or longer may actually cause you to totally quit.

When no one is looking, monitoring, or keeping you motivated, the real thing that makes a person successful is personal accountability. This is the piece of success that moves a person from good to great. Personal accountability means owning success and owning failure. Personal accountability means recognizing your own mistakes you have made towards yourself and, at times, others.

Personal accountability is a choice. It is a choice to do what is best for yourself. It means you have set a standard for yourself and you will not waiver from this standard. There will be times having personal accountability will be hard, think being on a diet and seeing an amazing piece of cake, and there will be times it will be easy, like when the bakery is out of chocolate cake.  Either way, the key to achievement of your #Vision2020 will require personal accountability.

For the rest of the year, I challenge everyone to work on their personal accountability. Let’s keep the momentum up and finish the year strong. This will help you be the example you want to see in others.

~Karen Cirincione
Email: kcirincione@gmail.com        
Twitter: @kcirincione 

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