When Marissa and I were doing our first round of visioning and business planning as partners we did a deep dive into our WHY. Why does Accountability Works exist? Then asking, why do we want to do this work? As partners and individually. And so on. It was insightful...
You’ve decided what you want. Maybe you’ve gone all in by hiring an accountability coach. And you’ve been diligently working towards it. That in and of itself is huge. For a while the pleasure and the self-confidence that that inspires is enough to sustain...
This month we are celebrating 10 years in our accountability coaching business! It’s hard to relate to the person I was when I started AW back in 2012. I was 35 years old, had two kids under the age of three, living in our first home as a family, with a shed in the...
Here is how I arrived at planning ahead. As an accountability coach, I quickly realized you can’t successfully decide what you are going to get done without a clear idea of what you are already committed to. If you aren’t planning ahead for your most important...
The intention-behavior gap is when your current actions don’t align with your past intentions. As accountability coaches, we view this gap as resistance. When the gap is large, resistance is high, when the gap is small resistance is low. Accountability serves to pull...
You set goals for the year. You are excited and suddenly that first challenge shows up. Here are 3 mindset shifts that will help you pull through and keep going. 1. Value the process The biggest challenge with goals is the number of times you have to choose to follow...
