Why Accountability Fails
In the last year or so, I’ve tried at least 3 different styles of Accountability. Almost all have failed, until this time. So let’s see how my fourth go turns out. Most of us probably know the best way to draw results out of something, that two people share a goal about, is to find an “Accountabuddy”, but what makes a great Accountabuddy? Hmmm, glad you asked, let me break it down.
1. You both ought to share the same goal.
Sometimes this even involves motivating the other person to want to achieve this goal.
2. Agreeing on how to get there.
Accountabuddies and all are great, but if both of you dont agree on how you’re going to reach your goals, you can expect to fall flat on your face.
3. Hyping them up.
A key feature of someone being your Accountabuddy is them simply being able to affect your emotions in a positive vein - this doesnt mean that you have to have known them for a decade, but it does help to feel validated by someone else.
4. Common ground
In my extremely limited experience & opinion, I'd like to wager that you kinda gotta need to have common ground with the person whose your accountabuddy. Even if not for all things, but you have to have something that excites you both & gets you talking. Combine all these four together and the TL;DR version is simply:
Find a friend that has the same goals as you, and then set a path to achieve them.
In walks Pravgya. Last week I was talking to her for my usual almost 200 minutes of a day, to write an interview piece on her, and I told her to document her experiences travelling, cause the girl has some VERY interesting stories to tell - and it would be a pity for people to never hear those.
Definitely helped that it was an easy sell for me to tell her to do it, especially since she wanted to grow her Twitter too.
But the caveat here was: me pitching myself as a way for her to remain accountable. And hence was born #wip001 ------------------------------- I mean, not gonna lie, Twitter definitely left a mark on me with the whole: “omg you should be creating 2x of what you consume” So obviously I've been giving MYSELF the plague. Decided to live a little though, and not stress out so much, but host this on Tumblr, WHO knows who’ll find these posts, and what they’ll have to say, but it’ll 100% be interesting to leave this as a link in my future resumes.
------------------------------- H/T to Dickie & Cole for introducing me to just SHIPPING imperfect things, which is exactly what this is - cause I was meant to write it TWO DAYS ago, yet here I sit 40 minutes pre-deadline to set it on it’s way.
