Posts Tagged ‘acountability session’

It always seems to be the simplest little things that make the biggest difference. This idea is no different. So simple yet the results are outstanding! I can prove it!

This is totally relevant for website planning AND anything you want to achieve really. It nothing new but it’s something we tend to not bother to do.

This tip works for building your website, starting a business, running a marathon, teaching a monkey to do a one handed backwards flip-flop while eating a banana… All are goals with a desired outcome.

How this trick came about…

About 2 months ago my cousin Nat and I caught up. We both chatted about our goals and how online business was by far the easiest way to achieve our goals while doing what we love. Oh and with the smallest cash outlay. (I’ll tell you why online business is all these things in another post).

Another thing we both discovered is that we were both easily excitable. We’d jump up and down at the opening of an envelope. Especially if there’s wine! We found we were both in, what I call, “Helicopter mode”. Spinning around and around in circles very fast but not actually going anywhere. So here is what we did….

The simple 30 minute trick…

Once a week, same time each week, we meet up for an hour. We give each other 30 minutes each to set ourselves about 5 tasks for the coming week. They can be as big or small as we want, as long as they are things that are moving us towards our goals. During our 30 minutes we also say what we did complete from the previous week and what we didn’t.

Sometimes we don’t do everything on the list BUT most the time it’s because something bigger popped up that was a better opportunity to move forward. Always towards our goals though.

We don’t beat ourselves up if we didn’t do all the tasks BUT if one of us catches the other procrastinating on a task we’ll ask the question “So whats REALLY going on and get to the bottom of it so we move forward. It’s these ones that are perhaps the best part of this group.

Like I said, this is nothing new. Call it an accountability session, mastermind group, wine and cheese hour. Whatever blows your skirt up. Simple… but with huge results.

The biggest, bestest thing EVER that I get out of these sessions…

When there are issues in your business or even personal life, it is hard to see the label from inside the jar. With someone on the outside who is brutally honest, and has no qualms about telling you your being stupid, you become “unstuck” a lot faster. They ask you questions that you are too stuck to ask yourself. Next thing something that was a big personal hurdle becomes a leap forward  in the right direction.

I even had a couple of sessions lately where the thing that was holding me back seemed small, but when I broke through them were so huge that I felt PHYSICALLY different. Like I could do ANYTHING. Like I was BIONIC. Some of these things were realizations that had held me back for years! And all it took to bust through them was 30 mins a week.

Having someone holding you accountable each week makes a massive difference I promise you.

So take action… find even just one like-minded person to have your accountability sesh with. You don’t even have to have common goals. Nat and I are in totally different industries… but the principle of these sessions work brilliantly for us both.

That’s all folks!

PS: Comment on here or email me at j@webchik.net and I’ll have a 30 min session with you on moving forward with your website, membership site, blog site or online store