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Modern Mentor

490 - How to Make Great Progress Using Accountability

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The killer app when it comes to stopping procrastination and getting things done is to engage the part of your brain that feels social obligation. Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/project-management/how-to-make-great-progress-using-accountability Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the get it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.1

Today's episode is about using accountability as a tool for getting things done.

0:14.4

My name is Stevea Robbins and I am self-employed. And as a self-employed do-do-be, I'm my own boss.

0:21.6

There's no one but me to hold me accountable for getting the right things done at the right times.

0:26.1

Unfortunately, my boss is a really nice guy.

0:29.0

He's too nice.

0:30.0

He's very understanding.

0:31.5

He's too understanding.

0:33.5

Sometimes multiple responsibilities do collide.

0:36.7

For example, someone on the internet is wrong and I simply must correct them, instead of

0:41.9

writing the client proposal that's due.

0:43.8

So there goes an hour of my time and my boss, darn him, doesn't say a word.

0:48.4

He's too understanding.

0:50.8

Over the years, I've tried setting appointments with myself.

0:53.3

I break them. I've tried rewarding

0:55.2

myself with Oreo ice cream cake. It melted. I even tried punishments only to discover that being

1:00.7

covered in olive oil and tickled with ostrich feathers was, well, actually kind of hot.

1:06.1

Throughout all the procrastination, however, the delays, the distractions and the interruptions,

1:09.9

I have noticed that one thing that happens over and over, which is that people take precedence. When I'm

1:16.5

interrupted, I generally drop what I'm doing to take care of the interruption. Why? Because the

1:21.7

interruption almost always comes from a people. When there's a two-hour time block on my schedule

1:26.8

for a meeting with myself to work

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