Mini: Holding Yourself Accountable / Spartan MIND

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Dr. L says: Keeping yourself accountable is a skill that many people often have to practice and refine over time. There are a few steps that you can take to ensure that you hold yourself accountable. Remember first and foremost to set realistic goals for yourself. Yes, they can be lofty and seemingly difficult but let’s not make impossible goals. Setting reminders for yourself can be a useful and simple way to ensure that are consistently checking in with yourself. Also, asking yourself why your goal is there in the first place can help reveal why accountability may not come so easily. We are less likely to hold ourselves accountable if the goal is not intrinsically motivating. And finally, rope in some support. Accountability doesn’t mean doing it all on your own. Calling up your friends to be your army of support can be incredibly useful.

LESSONS:
Holding yourself accountable is a skill that needs practice and refinement.
Do these four things to aid in building this muscle:
Set realistic goals.
Set reminders to check in with yourself.
Ensure that the goal is coming from YOU - not an external factor.
Rope in your support team for help.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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0:00.0	What's up,
0:05.0	up Spartans, it's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind, your chief mindock here at Spartan.
0:10.0	Today we're talking about keeping yourself accountable.
0:13.0	Oftentimes we set goals, we have responsibilities, tasks, things that we need to get done,
0:18.0	and we have a difficult time keeping ourselves accountable.
0:21.0	So I'm going to give you some easy steps to keep yourself accountable.
0:25.0	The first is setting a realistic goal for yourself, okay?
0:28.8	So if your accountability is in a
0:35.0	a goal that you've set for yourself.
0:33.0	One of the first things that you need to do
0:35.0	is just check in and make sure that that goal is realistic.
0:38.0	Because you're not going to hold yourself accountable
0:40.0	if that goal is not realistic, right?
0:42.0	Because deep down inside, even maybe at an un- if that goal is not realistic, right?
0:42.7	Because deep down inside, even maybe at an unconscious level,
0:46.1	you're going to recognize that you're just never
0:48.1	going to get there or do the thing that you want to do.
0:51.0	So you're just not even going to do it, right? And therefore accountability is going to
0:54.3	go out the window. So that first step, make sure that you've set a realistic goal for yourself.
0:59.1	Okay? The second part in keeping yourself accountable, I like to set reminders, okay?
1:04.4	So you could put something on a Post-it note, you could actually put something in your phone
1:08.6	and like have it ring at a certain time every day to keep yourself accountable.
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