On this episode of The Wednesday Call podcast, Andy Albright comes to you live from his home in Treasure Island, Fla. to give you four behaviors of accountability that lead to success.
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." --Benjamin Franklin
Moral: Excuses provide the reasons to stop your forward motion. Once you stop, progress cannot be realized.
The 4 Behaviors of Accountability:
1. Be Self-Disciplined (Willpower & Habit)
2. Think Before You Act (Wise Decisions & Emotional Maturity)
3. Take Ownership of Your Choices (Proactive Posture & Taking Responsibility)
4. Be a Self-Starter (Being Persistent & Remaining Curious)
1. Be Self-Disciplined Quote:
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." --Vince Lombardi
Moral: Will is the spearhead of self-discipline. It is a concentration of force. It is when you gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward. Life doesn't first require you to have the strength (self-worth) to rise up, nor does it require the knowledge (education) to understand as a prerequisite for forward motion. Instead, it requires that instinctive desire that exists inside each and everyone of us to take just one more step.
1. Be Self-Disciplined
Requires Two Things:
• Willpower (Gives you the guts to stay engaged in a course of action). A personal choice to rise above one's circumstances and demonstrate the ownership for achieving desired results. Simply put: see it, own it and do it!
• Habit (Gives you a way to fortify your position during the course of action). If willpower is your initial thrust to take that first beachhead of life, then habit allows you to sustain your effort by taking a little more territory each day in order to advance your position.
2. Think Before You Act Quote:
"Regret is unnecessary. Think about the consequences of both acting (avoiding a train wreck) or not acting (missing an opportunity)." --William Shockley
Moral: Thinking before you take action encompasses much more than basic brain processing; and is typically used to anticipate the possible outcomes of a situation, and make the best choice about what to do. When one thinks before acting they must begin with the end in mind.
2. Think Before You Act
Requires Two Things:
• Wise Decisions (Every single decision you have ever made or will ever make has consequences). Once we learn to evaluate our decisions or lack of deciding based on consequences, all the other considerations and distractions fall neatly by the wayside.
• Emotional Maturity (Have the confidence to be your own resource). The key is to be effective and not reactive.
Here's three questions you may want to keep handy:
1. What options do you have and can you image each one through?
2. What you would tell a friend in the same situation?
3. Would you mind explaining the aftermath of your decision to a large group of people?
3. Take Ownership of Your Choices Quote:
"He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others." --Leonardo da Vinci
Moral: If you cannot take accountability for your actions, you will never have influence with others.
3. Take Ownership of Your Choices
Requires Two Things:
• A Proactive Posture (Only when you implement this strategy can you direct your own destiny; otherwise someone or something else gladly will). Being proactive is something you do to yourself, and not something that someone does to you. The real benefit/value of being proactive stems from the ability to influence events and outcomes before they ever happen.
• Taking Responsibility (It is the true price of greatness). If you want to be great, if you want to be a leader; then you are going to have to be the one to take responsibility for empowering others making decisions. If you ignore this type of responsibility to your downline, then their failure makes you blameworthy or guilty of culpable negligence.
4. Be a Self-Starter Quote:
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self." --Aristotle
Moral: In order to take initiative, we have to push past our own excuses and insecurities. This requires an attitude of accountability, which gives us permission to fill the gaps of wasted time with functional, practical and useful steps to take back our lives.
4. Be a Self-Starter
Requires Two Things:
• Being Persistent (A "never give up" attitude). This type of initiative creates involvement (enfold or doing to). Being involved in your business requires you to ensure things are getting done and boxes are being checked (doing your due diligence).
• Remaining Curious (A sincere "wanting to understand" nature). This type of initiative creates engagement (interlock or doing with). Being engaged in your business requires you to encourage others to continuously accept and connect to the objectives that will make them successful.
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