The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)

Lack of Accountability
The  link  between  success  and  accountability  is

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irrefutable.  Virtually all  highly  successful  people—from
CEOs to professional athletes to the President of the United
States—embrace  a  high  degree  of  accountability.  It  gives
them  the  leverage  they  need  to  take  action  and  create
results,  even  when  they  don’t  feel  like  it.  Without  it,  we’d
have  a  lot  more  pro-athletes  skipping  practice,  and  CEOs
spending  their  days  playing Words With Friends
TM
 on  their
iPhones. I’m sure some are already doing that (I’m guilty of
it occasionally), but we’d have a lot more.
Accountability  is  the  act  of  being  responsible  to
someone else for some action or result. Very little happens
in  this  world,  or  in  your  life,  without  some  form  of
accountability.  Virtually  every  positive  result  you  and  I
produced  from  birth  to  age  eighteen  was  thanks  to  the
accountability  provided  for  us  by  the  adults  in  our  lives
(parents,  teachers,  bosses,  etc.)  Vegetables  got  eaten,
homework  was  completed,  teeth  were  brushed,  we  bathed
and  got  to  bed  at  a  reasonable  hour.  If  it  weren’t  for  the
accountability  provided  for  us  by  our  parents  and  teachers,
we  would  have  been  uneducated,  malnourished,  sleep-
deprived, dirty little kids! Nice way to reframe it, right?
Accountability  has  brought  order  to  our  lives  and
allowed  us  to  progress,  improve  and  achieve  results  we
wouldn’t
have
otherwise.
Here’s
the
problem:
accountability was never something you and I asked for, but
rather  something  that  we  endured  as  children,  teens,  and
young adults. As it was forced upon us by adults, most of us
unconsciously  grew  to  resist  and  resent  accountability
altogether.  Then,  when  we  turned  18,  we  embraced  every
ounce of freedom we could get our hands on, continuing to

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avoid  accountability  like  it  was  the  plague,  perpetuating  a
downward  spiral  into  mediocrity,  developing  detrimental
mindsets  and  habits  such  as  laziness,  deflecting
responsibility,  and  taking  short  cuts—hardly  a  recipe  for
success.
Now  that we  are  all  grown  up  and  striving  to  achieve
worthy  levels  of  success  and  fulfillment,  we  must  take
responsibility  for  initiating  our  own  systems  for
accountability  (or  move  back  in  with  our  parents).  Your
accountability  system  could  be  a  professional  coach,
mentor, even a good friend or family member. The reality is
that,  statistically,  95%  of  the  people  that  read  any  book
don’t implement what they learn, because no one is holding
them accountable to do so. There is a way to change that.