The key to achieving your goals: accountability

The key to achieving your goals: accountability

Each year between Christmas and New Year I write down my goals. The hardest thing about goals and what you want to achieve is that they often involve lifestyle changes. It’s hard to stay disciplined. It’s hard to stay focused. That’s why only 7% of new years resolutions actually stick…

The biggest hack to do so? Have a friend, colleague, spouse or your mom hold you accountable for your own resolutions. Be brave and share your goals with the world.

Research by American Society of Training and Development has shown that accountability is the most important factor in habit formation or habit changing.

If you are held accountable to someone else, by committing to someone that you will achieve a goal, then your chance of success is up to 95 percent.

My coach? My good friend and fellow entrepreneur: Merick Schoute.

So how do we do this?

• We hold each other accountable for our own goals
• At the beginning of the year we share our goals for the year.
• We break these goals down per quarter, month and per week
• Every week at a fixed moment we update each other on our…