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The protocol for fulfillment is to hold common meetings with your AP so each of you will challenge, motivate, mentor, encourage and inspire each other to achieve maximum results. Regular meetings would be daily (particularly impressed to begin), bi-weekly or weekly but consistency is the key because it keeps matters moving forward. A natural momentum occurs with common activity and you begin to act in your intentions, in turn, you actually get matters done briskly. Just knowing that you will have to document your successes or lack thereof with honesty at a pre-determined date can give even the most guilty procrastinators the pressure to make progress and to achieve their aims.
Assistance in organizing ideas, thoughts, and tasks into unique,
measurable, attainable, realistic and time-bound (SMART) aims
Assistance in prioritizing an effective and consistent plan
Ensuring accountability for assignment follow-via, avoid ruts, stumbling blocks
or mental blocks to your own thinking and keeps you striving towards
your vision
Mentoring via difficulties and indecisiveness
Having a confidential sounding board
Sharing advice, personal knowledge and experience
Maintain focal point and balance; stay on the right course, path and purpose
Celebrate successes and accomplishments
One of the most effective ways to inspire and guide change in your life is via the power of setting aims yet for lots of us we discover ourselves straying versus staying on our goal path. The idea of accountability in business is one that is not overseas to an entrepreneur or someone with an entrepreneurial spirit. In order to accomplish the tasks and aims essential for fulfillment, one must possess a sense of accountability, a willingness to accept the responsibility of the goal and take the essential action steps required to achieve it.
Confidence, creativity and strength are all traits that will be functional to you. Also think of choosing an Accountability Partner who you trust to keep confidence as you may get into financial and personal discussions that are confidential in nature. You can also have more than one Accountability Partner for different aspects of your life. I actually have 3 different APs that all share comparable passions and purpose in different areas. Its like a pedigree of success; and that i believe success breeds success!
Lets take a closer appearance at accountability, accountability partners, and mastermind groups.
Having a personal relationship with the Accountability Partner is not essential. There are a number of groups and organizations that can link you up with potential partners or you can visit my site to learn more. Joining a Mastermind Group in your part may be an option and may keep you on track with your aims and tasks in an environment with like-minded entrepreneurs.
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By Jodi Nicholson, CPC MCSC
Some other benefits of an Accountability Partner include:
There are vast reasons why keeping a relationship with an Accountability Partner is a worthwhile plan. With life and work stress, time management issues, financial struggles and the whole difficulties of entrepreneurship, it is clean to avoid, neglect or pass over essential steps to reach your aims. Many a time, it is easier to do this when one is reporting only to him or her self. However, with an Accountability Partner, there's a higher motivation to not let the partner down and to appearance good in front of a peer. Guilt is an exceptional trigger for completing tasks and an effective partner can use just the right amount of verbal or non-verbal encouragement to ensure tasks are being completed. Eventually, new and good pre-active habits are created, guilt is no longer an evident trigger and in the future you will feel tremendous pride and joy in your own progression, realizing the numerous benefits of accomplishing your aims.
During your search for an appropriate Accountability Partner, keep in mind that the right person have to be a like-minded profitable person, fellow entrepreneur, manager or business owner. He/she have to be someone who will challenge, engage and evoke a sense of accomplishment in you.
Similar in many ways to a business mentor, coach or a goal-setting buddy, an Accountability Partner is a trusted and respected fellow business expert that will act as a goal-setting moderator. Employees document to managers who keep them on-point, grant direction, education and feedback. Often times managers require a go-to trusted individual to keep them centred, targeted and results driven as well. A different perspective is crucial in any business success and two major minds are truly better than one. Who do you have in your business or folks circle that can act as a springboard for ideas and ensure accountability?
The mastermind may be defined as a coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more folks, for the attainment of a distinct purpose. Napolean Hill
Establishing a strong support method is a vital part of anyones success and as a coach, consultant and mentor I encourage you to embrace the quality of accountability. It's wise to partner with a personal (known as an accountability partner - AP) or join a mastermind group to keep on track to success.
Mastermind Groups consist of 3-6 folks (or more depending upon time) that join jointly and have a meeting of the minds. These groups are an effective way to learn, grow, inspire and turned into an inspiration to others. There are many organizations around the globe that coordinate mastermind groups, mastermind clubs or mastermind events. It is always an option to begin your own group via networking, joining local group or via the Chamber of Commerce. Another recommendation is to group your users, colleagues or networking groups into a mastermind group and be the facilitator of the meeting.
Typically Mastermind Groups meet 1-2 times per month or even quarterly depending upon the directives and size of the crowd. The meetings would be over the telephone on a conference call line, in person or even on a webinar or skype. The meetings follow a pre-determined protocol, and allow each member to have time to debate diverse aspects of their life, business, career, or any material of interest that they would like feedback or support with. Feel free to inbox me and I'll send the rule and protocol your way, my contact files is below. Often times such a lot is gained by the other persons material and the benefits billow over to everyone in the crowd from the discussion. Much would be learned via networking, listening, contributing and participating full-out with a hard and speedy of folks on a comparable path to success.
