The Midyear Check-in   I put together a simple version of what we do with our clients so you can try it on your own. It’s always valuable to assess where you are before you plan what you want to do next. Since we are tracking all of these things with our clients it’s...

A Case for Knowing What's Enough   Years ago, when I first started Accountability Works, I joined an entrepreneurial mentoring group. The leader was someone I respected and admired, he had many years of executive leadership experience, at one point running a $400M...

Business Coach, Mastermind, or Accountability Coach — Which Do You Need? Understanding the niche of accountability coaching can be a little difficult to explain unless you’ve tried other types of coaching. I got into accountability coaching as a realtor. I knew what I...

Clarity is Confidence  There is a mantra I often share with clients and go back to myself… Action precedes clarity. It comes up a lot because we want things to become clear first, then we can take action with confidence. We want to know that we are doing the right...

How do I prioritize when everything feels important?  First off, the things that are important rarely get prioritized over what feels urgent. So the things that are important, need to be planned ahead of time, before they either fall off your radar, get shuffled to...

The Hidden Cost of Information Overload People today are in danger of drowning in information; but... they are more willing to drown than they need be. — Idries Shah  As the quote above states, it seems I was one of those people willing to drown in information. If I...

When Things Get Messy, Return to Your Vision Vision is the fun part. It’s closing your eyes and imagining how you want the day, month, or year to go. It’s naming and seeing what it is that’s important to you. Our actual eyes are exposed to so much these days. Our...

Embodying Accountability Marissa often says that accountability is an act of radical self-love. Doing what you say you are going to do takes nerve, it ruffles feathers (your own and sometimes others). When we work for someone else, accountability can mean doing what...

The Thing That's In Your Way When we say we are going to do something, especially something that we really want to do, the ideal situation is that we do it. From an accountability coaching perspective, our role is to help you 1) decide what you want to do and 2) hold...