Day 11 RYL

Welcome to Day 11 of the 31 Days to Reset Your Life Challenge! It is designed to be a virtual life coaching experience that will equip you with all the tools you need to reset your life. Please spread the word to your friends and tell them to sign up for the program here!

Yesterday, you took inspired action by doing one thing to get to closer to your ideal life. Today, you're going to take that concept a step further and build in some accountability for your long-term, sustained progress. Today, you're going to find an accountability partner.

For me, my mom is the ultimate accountability partner in helping me get to the next level in my business. We talk almost every day and she knows how to ask me the tough questions about how I'm spending my time and reminding me of the goals I set out to accomplish this year. Of course, it helps that my mom is an entrepreneur herself, with a business that's already earning six figures, which is where I want to be! I'm able to get so much more done knowing that she's going to ask me about my progress on a regular basis.

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Today's assignment is to find an accountability partner - someone who can hold you responsible for your own success and progress in pursuing your ideal life.

• a friend, family member, co-worker, mentor, coach or someone else you can trust to help you keep a commitment

• someone on the same path as you or simply willing to help you in your specific journey

• someone who can help you stay on track toward reaching your goals

• someone who stands firm and won't let you get away with making excuses or procrastinating

• someone who will ask you all those difficult questions we tend to avoid

It's so important to have someone - paid or otherwise - to help keep you on track with your goals in life and business. It's so easy for a year, five years, or even 10 years to go by and you still up there talking about how you're "trying" to start a business, lose weight, get back into the dating game, etc.

There's nothing wrong with asking or even paying someone to help you. It just means that you're serious about your goals. And if you're really serious about changing your life, wouldn't you WANT someone to make sure you keep moving forward? Otherwise, it many never happen for you!

 

How to find an accountability partner:

• Ask a trusted friend, family member, co-worker, or mentor to help you. Make an ongoing weekly or monthly appointment to share a "progress report" by phone or in person.

• Hire a coach. The benefit of a coach is that she will be objective in helping you reach your goal, whereas sometimes our loved ones can have ulterior motives in the advice they give. It's not on purpose or in any kind of malicious way, it's just that they typically want what they think is "best" for you.

• Seek out online communities where there are people who have the same interests and goals as you. You want to surround yourself with other people who are making positive changes in their lives, because they will be more likely to want to help you do the same thing. Personal growth is contagious! A great online community for black women entrepreneurs is Black Business Women Online, which is run by the fabulous LaShanda Henry aka Sistasense.

Take Action and Reflect: When you've secured your accountability partner, tell us who you chose and in the comments! If you already have an accountability partner, how did you find them? 

 

Wishing you lifelong happiness and success!