Accountablity 101

It should be everyone’s goal to be more organized. Unless you are someone who relishes the most chaotic of lives, everyone needs some order to their day-to-day operations.

Some people have strict calenders, others have an hour-by-hour breakdown of what they are doing for the day. Still more make lists or fill hundreds of post-it notes and stick them all over their place of work in the hopes that over the course of the day, they might make most of them disappear.

To that end, I am formally admitting my need for a better form of accountability to myself. My problem stems from the fact that my chosen profession is not as structured as a 9-5 job, and the tangible evidence of what I have accomplished with my time might not be understandable to those who do not know what I do. I need to help people understand how I get my job done while in the meantime holding myself accountable for the hours in my day.

So to help keep my feet to the flame everyday, and to motivate me further to knock out my to-do lists, I am going to begin a “5 Things I” list. I will have two, “5 Things I Did Today” and  “5 Things I Didn’t Do Today” and they will both be used to help measure my daily successes or what I might need more work.

For accountability sake, I will more than likely utilize my new (thank you Annie for the push) Facebook fan page to post my daily list where I encourage you, if you so choose, to make some of your own and post with me. I hope that by doing this together, we can help each other succeed and accomplish the most we can everyday.

But you tell me rantaholics…how do you keep yourself accountable? Do you make checklists? Are you the post it kind? Do you have a secretary that does it all for you? I want to know so we can help keep each other charging headlong for our goals.

And more than anything, I want us all to win…together.