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WEEK NINE

Welcome to Week Nine of the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan.

This week we will discuss Part Four of Goal-Setting - Accountability. Below, Jim shares

the key components to making accountability a valuable tool and asset for your success.

Chris reviews CD 6 of the Jim Rohn New Millennium program, and we have some very

important exercises in the workbook to assist you in this final piece of the goal-setting

process, including a tools section to help you achieve your goals and an accountability

contract. (We would appreciate you sending us your copy of this - details are in the

contract.)

As we close out Pillar Two, we hope you are experiencing a new level of faith, belief and

confidence in the person you are refining and becoming! As so many of you have stated -

this is exciting!

Have a great week!

Kyle

“When Andrew Carnegie died, they discovered a sheet of paper upon which he

had written one of the major goals of his life: to spend the first half of his life

accumulating money and to spend the last half of his life giving it all away.

And he did!”

-– Jim Rohn

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GOAL-SETTING

Jim Rohn's Second Pillar of Success: Goal-Setting, Part Four

– Accountability

Hi, Jim Rohn here. Before we dive into Part Four – Accountability, here is a review of

what we have been covering this month.

1. Evaluation and Reflection . The only way we can reasonably decide what we want in

the future and how we will get there, is to first know where we are right now and

secondly, what our level of satisfaction is for where we are in life. As we focus this

month on goal-setting, our first order of business and our topic three weeks ago was

evaluation and reflection.

2. Dreams and Goals . What are your dreams and goals? Not related to the past or what

you think you can get, but what you want. Have you ever really sat down and thought

through your life values and decided what you really want? This isn’t something that

someone else says you should have or what culture tells us successful people do or have.

These are the dreams and goals that are born out of your own heart and mind. These are

the goals that are unique to you and come from who you were created to be and gifted to

become. Two weeks ago we showed you exactly how to find out what you want from

life.

3. S.M.A.R.T. Goals. S.M.A.R.T. means Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and

Time-sensitive.

Specific : Don’t be vague. Exactly what do you want?

Measurable : Quantify your goal. How will you know if you’ve achieved it or not?

Attainable : Be honest with yourself about what you can reasonably accomplish at this

point in your life - along with taking into consideration your current responsibilities.

Realistic : It’s got to be do-able, real and practical.

Time : Associate a timeframe with each goal. When should you complete the goal?

In Part Three of Goal-Setting, we spent time looking at how to apply the S.M.A.R.T. test

to your goals to make sure they are as powerful as they can be!

4. Accountability. Think of the word “accountable.” It means to “give an account.”

When someone knows what your goals are, they help hold you accountable. Whether it is

someone else going through this program with you (have you thought about inviting a

friend to join you on this one-year journey?) or just someone you can give the basic idea

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to, having a person who can hold you accountable will give you another added boost to

getting your goals! This week we will show you how to set up an accountability partner.

Accountability (a contract with yourself or someone else) is

a vital key in the goal-setting process. In those early days

Mr. Shoaff held me accountable for my progress on the

goals I had set. He asked those hard questions that helped

motivate me to continuously work on achieving my d

Accountability puts some teeth into the process. If a goal is

set and only one person knows it, does it really have any

power? Many times it doesn't. At the very least, it isn’t as powerful as if you have one o

more people who can hold you accountable to your goal.

reams.

Think of the word “accountable.” Webster defines it as, "liable to being called to account;

answerable." In other words, it means to give an account of your actions to yourself or

another person. Accountability is a very broad word, yet accountability is essentially

follow-up. When someone knows what your goals are, they follow up and hold you

accountable by asking you to “give an account” of where you are in the process of

achieving that goal. Human nature is such that when we know someone else is going to

ask us about it, we are much more motivated to get it done. If for no other reason we

don’t want to look lazy and uncommitted to those we are accountable to! This is why

having an accountability partner is so important. Whether it is someone else going

through this program with you, (have you thought about inviting a friend to join you on

this one-year journey?) or just someone who you can give the basic idea to; having a

place of accountability will give you another added boost to achieving your goals!

In the basic sense, there are two kinds of accountability: internal and external. Internal

accountability is essentially the level of integrity you maintain not only throughout the

evaluation process but also in life. It means that when you look at yourself, you judge

yourself with honesty. This is where you hold yourself accountable to doing what you

said you would do. If you've messed up, say, "I've messed up", but if you've done well

then you can celebrate your progress. Let the internal accountability prod you and spur

you on to greater action in pursuit of your achievements.

So first and foremost, it is our responsibility to hold ourselves accountable. We answer to

ourselves. We take charge of ourselves. How do we do that? Here are a few ideas on how

to hold yourself accountable:

1. Write down your goals so they become “objective.” You can’t go back and say, “That

wasn’t really my goal.”

2. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself when you assess whether or not you have met the

goal (of course, if you were specific in your S.M.A.R.T. goal-setting, you won’t have

much wiggle room here anyway).

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3. If you fall short of your goal, or if you are falling short while on the way, knuckle

down and hold yourself accountable to do what it takes to make up the ground so that you

can hit that goal!

4. Set a time frame in which you will evaluate your progress and hold yourself

accountable.

The second aspect of accountability is that it is

external. Find someone else or a group of others

to hold you accountable. When we commit to

giving an account to someone else for our actions

and goals, we take it to the next level. Now let me

say that the external part of accountability will not work without the internal aspect. If

you are not honest with yourself, then you will probably not be honest with others.

Asking someone to hold you accountable and then knowing you won’t be completely

honest with them will never work. In fact, Howard Hendricks used to have a series of

accountability questions that went something like this: Have you done “A”? Have you

done “B”? Have you done “C”? Now, have you told the truth on the first three questions?

That is a good series of questions to ask!

Having an accountability partner or an outside source of accountability is a powerful

force if done right. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you set up an accountability

partner:

1. Choose someone who cares about you, but can be tough and honest with you.

This person needs to have both of these characteristics. They need to care about you

(and you have to know and feel that care) because you become vulnerable by making

yourself accountable to them. They need to be tough and honest though, because you

don’t want to have them shy away from telling you to get on the ball when you are

slacking, getting behind or not doing the job. I think the expression, "tough love"

would fit appropriately here. In essence, they love us enough to be honest with us

about our progress.

2. Tell them specifically what your goals are.

3. Commit to being honest with them.

4. Give them permission to speak both words of encouragement, as well as words of

challenge when the situation calls for it.

5. Agree on a reasonable time frame in which you will allow them to evaluate your

progress and hold you accountable.

6. Follow up on their words when they challenge you or call you to action.

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