NEVER Trust Yourself… You Are Your Own WORST Enemy!!

Here’s the deal…

If you have EVER set a goal for your­self or even PROMISED your­self that you would do some­thing, but you STILL did not accom­plish it, you are a vic­tim of your own worst enemy (yourself)…

NEVER EEEEEEEVER Trust Yourself!!

I real­ized this when I started mak­ing promises to myself, and I still didn’t fol­low through with them… UNTIL…

I started promis­ing my Suc­cess Coach… Thats’ when the real magic hap­pened, because I was no longer hold­ing myself account­able (which I think is almost impos­si­ble), and some­one else was look­ing over my shoul­der, hold­ing me accountable!

And I don’t just mean hold­ing me account­able like “oh yeah, you bet­ter do this”, I mean lit­er­ally mak­ing me email every sin­gle day with an update on what I did for the day, and send­ing the proof to all my work — NO EXCUSES! And if I don’t do what I said I would do, I will lose points!!

FYI, the point sys­tem I speak of is a way to moti­vate me as a per­former to fol­low through with the promises I set out for myself… It helps a lot, because nobody likes los­ing points… I’ll talk about that on a future post.

Why do you Suck at Hold­ing Your­self Accountable?

I don’t know the exact sci­ence behind it, but I believe it has some­thing to do with the way we were raised… We all grew up fol­low­ing orders from other peo­ple, and we’ve never really fol­lowed our own orders. We didn’t tell our­selves “Go to school!” or “Do your home­work” (at least I didn’t lol).

Our elders told us to do that… And the only rea­son we actu­ally did it was because they were watch­ing us to make sure that we did it! And if we dis­obeyed, there was always a con­se­quence (usu­ally a spank­ing — depend­ing on your time era of course).

If it were up to me, grow­ing up, I prob­a­bly wouldn’t even have gone to school every­day… Some days I just felt like sleep­ing in late, play­ing video games, or rock­ing out with my friends… But because my mother was hold­ing me account­able every morn­ing, and the gov­ern­ment made it a LAW that I can either go to school or pay a tru­ancy ticket, I went every­day I could.

Nat­u­rally, peo­ple just want to do what you feel like doing… But if you do not have the resources you need to do that yet, you need to work towards that goal by doing things that you might not feel like doing… But if you don’t feel like work­ing, you’ll end up doing nothing.

And that’s when the “excuses” come in…

“I’ll do it later”

“I don’t need to do it right now”

“This can wait”…

“I’ll do it as soon as I fin­ish watch­ing The Office”… then “Oh! Bet­ter Off Ted is on! I’ll work after this episode”…

“My toe is hurt­ing, so I can’t write that report”

And they just keep get­ting more & more clever… Who are you fool­ing? NOBODY!! You’re NEVER going to do it!!

The only rea­son you can get away with these ridicu­lous excuses, is because you choose to let your­self get away with them! And it’s ALWAYS going to be that way! Unless you…

Now, Here’s the Solution:

Just find some­one who will be YOUR Suc­cess Coach! Some­one you can talk to once a week for just a few min­utes at a time about your action plan… Some­one who you can email once a day with the suc­cess you have accom­plished for that day, and the stuff you did NOT fol­low through with…

And they will NOT accept any crappy excuses, or rea­sons why you didn’t do what you said you would do… You either do it or you don’t — no excuses or rea­sons why… ONLY success!

Every week, you two can go over your plan & fix any lit­tle glitches in your sys­tem to con­fig­ure your action plan in a way that makes more sense & fits your needs…

That’s what any real coach should do for you… If you know a Suc­cess Coach who can help you, get in touch with him or her & ask them if they can do you this favor… I promise, you’ll be ETERNALLY GRATEFUL you did!!

And if you don’t know any­one, you can always count on me.  I am a con­sul­tant for some big com­pa­nies & entre­pre­neurs, but I also COACH peo­ple & will hold you account­able to your promises with no excuses or rea­sons why you “didn’t”.

You can receive a 15 minute con­sul­ta­tion with me ($100 value) at no cost, by fill­ing out this form below:

What kind of expe­ri­ence have you had with your own coach? And hold­ing your­self account­able vs. hav­ing some­one else hold you accountable?

I hope this post taught you a lot! If you know any­one who would ben­e­fit from it, please share with them! They’ll be happy you did!

P.S. I want to do every­thing in my power to help you suc­ceed & live your dreams!! I say that all the time because I really mean it! So if you need me to hold you account­able, please don’t hes­i­tate to ask!!

But you absolutely NEED some­one to start hold­ing you account­able RIGHT NOW!! You NEED a Suc­cess Coach start­ing NOW!! Mak­ing promises to your­self is NOT enough!