How A Boring – Yet Proven – Tool Achieves Amazing Results
Key Ideas in this Article
Judge by results – often harsh, always fair.
Use a coach or accountability partner as a wealth building system.
Isn't it amazing how the choices that determine the bulk of your results in life are so boringly simple, no one wants to hear about them? For example, let's say you want to drive from Los Angeles to New York and you're given the choice between two cars: a basic Toyota Camry, or a one-of-a-kind custom race car using the latest, coolest, whiz-bang technology.
Logic says to choose the basic Camry every time. It's the proven, reliable path to achieving the goal. However, the sleek, beautiful race car just oozes sex-appeal and seduces us into the driver's seat for a more-better-different adventure. Don't get me wrong. I love adventure as much as the next person – probably a lot more. But there's a time and place for everything. The financial game is about getting results – not having an adventure.
How We're Hardwired To Make Mistakes
The human mind has a character flaw that can destroy financial success if you don't control it with discipline. We're attracted to shiny, bright solutions that appear cutting-edge over perfectly suitable, proven alternatives that are boring but well within our grasp.
It's with great trepidation I educate you today on the necessity of using accountability as a tool to build wealth.
“Yuck,” you say? Well, it's a fuel efficient, reliable Camry that'll get you from Los Angeles to New York. Do you want the result or not?
You can be smart and choose this solution over all the emergencies, new ideas, and other sexy distractions competing for your time right now, at this moment – or you can move onto something more exciting.
My challenge to you is simple – do you want to build wealth?
Why Accountability Is Necessary
“No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody wants a “more-better-different” lifestyle, but most people only get more-of-the-same. The problem is good intentions don’t magically produce good results unless they translate into persistent action. No action equals no results.
Most people know what they need to do – spend less, save more, invest wisely —you just don't execute well. You get busy, distracted, and lose track of your goals. Life gets in the way. Emergencies and fires erupt that divert your attention from the most important tasks that will produce the greatest outcome.
In short, you get in your own way. As Emerson said above, you cheat yourself out of success due to your lack of focus. However, there's one tool that works better than any other at fixing this problem so you can produce all the results you're capable of: accountability.
How Accountability Works
Very few people can just pick up a musical instrument and learn how to play it on their own.
Instead, you go to an instructor on a weekly basis where s/he shows you…
Tricks and tips for how to play better.
Weekly assignments providing the next logical step in your learning process.
Instruction on what you're doing right and wrong to correct errors and reinforce learning.
As long as you continue working with the instructor, you make regular, incremental progress toward your goal. Every week you practice and every week your musical ability improves. What happens when you stop going to the instructor? You stop practicing because there's no accountability and no next step.
It requires too much personal initiative and too much self-discipline to stay focused. Other issues interrupt progress. Your accountability structure is broken. Progress is stalemated. The entropy of life takes over. The instructor never did the practicing for you. He wasn't there looking over your shoulder to make sure you did what was necessary to progress.
Yet, you did it anyway. The structure and weekly meeting held you accountable and kept you focused.
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