Hold Yourself Accountable

Hold yourself accountable:

Welcome to this week’s Mortgage Mindset Blog.  By now you may have guessed that the blogs have moved to bi-weekly.  This change allows me provide better, more fully fleshed out ideas.  This week’s post is all about holding yourself accountable.

You can tell people what your goals are, and it always great to have support in meeting them, but their support means nothing if you aren’t honest with yourself.  In an earlier post we talked about setting realistic smaller goals on the way to a larger goal.  This is great and will help you stay motivated to keep going.

You have to keep yourself accountable for hitting these goals, and enacting these systems.  Whatever it is that you are trying to improve about yourself.  It can be in business, family life, personal health, whatever it is.  Setting goals is great, having a support team around you is great, but nothing is going to change unless YOU want it to.

I’ll take my Mortgage Brokerage, Rock Capital for example.  At the end of 2022, my brokerage set up a meeting for all of the agents, to go over goals for 2023, and what they wanted to accomplish.  This was great, and extremely helpful.  In this meeting they also came up with the idea of the accountability buddy.  Someone who can keep you on track when you are starting to slip from who you want to be.

This is excellent, and one of the many reasons why I love working for the brokerage I do.  However, I also quickly realized something.  Having other people hold you accountable doesn’t matter unless you do it yourself. 

You can have someone tell you to do something 10, 20, 30, or 100 times, but if you’re not invested enough to do it, it won’t get done.  That is the most important thing.  You have to be the first line of defense against your own motivation and discipline.  Nobody else can make you do the things you say you want to do.  You have to want it more than other things.

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