Accountability

Holding yourself accountable for your actions is the first step in recovering from any less than optimal situation. By knowing your part in each event that happens in your life, and by becoming aware of your choices that resulted in your experience, you will have the tools needed to reshape your future.

Honesty and Integrity is the foundation of accountability. You can live a life blaming others and continuing to be a victim of circumstance or you can become accountable and own your part in the events that have taken place in your life.

A very simple task that can help you identify your part is to inventory your experiences and resentments. Then acknowledge what those things affected in your life. After writing out the blame game you can now look at the list from a different perspective, and include what decisions you made in each of these events.

Most of us have, at one time or another, denied responsibility for circumstances in our lives. Many of us have gone on to believe the lies, and have even warped the truth to best fit our description of events in order to convince others – and ourselves – we were victimized, and it was not our fault.

It is sometimes necessary to clean the plate and move on. Give up the truth and own your part by being completely honest about a situation to those directly affected. When you take the time to correct past mistakes where you failed to be accountable you release the hold on you that comes with covering up the truth and continuing with the deceit.

Sometimes accountability is not just about the past. As we choose goals and desires for our future, setting intentions and holding ourselves accountable for the actions that must be taken to achieve those goals is vital to success. And it’s work. I believe adhering to the following principles helps us be accountable and, imminently, successful

• Assign yourself daily tasks.
• Don’t back out of your commitments.
• Consider logical consequences and be prepared.
• Model people with responsible behavior.
• Choose a person to help hold you accountable.