Comments on: Who Holds You Accountable?

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:00:48 +0000

If you have a coach it is difficult not to front the issue as they are trained to bring it out of you and then you are answerable to them for your agreed actions.

By: Jen Harris

Jen Harris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:40:14 +0000

I like the idea of assigning a value to the amount of time a certain item takes you during the day.
It’s like paying yourself to be more productive in other areas of your life.
Thanks for the article!
-jen

By: Richard Lockyer

Richard Lockyer — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:57:58 +0000

I agree. I have four mentors, one of them my wife who really keeps my feet on the ground, who i run ideas past when i am thinking about doing something new.
It really helps to consider other peoples opinions.

As a business coach myself it never amazes me how easy it can be to unlock the soulutions to problems that the CEO has been wrestling with for months. To be honest i think most people know the solution but won’t admit it because then they have to experience the pain in implementing it!

If you have a coach it is difficult not to front the issue as they are trained to bring it out of you and then you are answerable to them for your agreed actions.

A good coach can save you a lot of money and months of stress but be warned good coaches will ‘hold your feet to the flame’ but you WILL get great results.

By: Meredith mud Bailey

Meredith mud Bailey — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:17:32 +0000

How right you are! We have feeling the need for a small business mastermind group for a while now. The irony of it is that because no one is holding me accountable to that, it keeps getting shuffled to the back of the pile. I wonder how much of a priority it should really be

By: Megan Tsai | Red Wagon Writing

Megan Tsai | Red Wagon Writing — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:13:41 +0000

Great ideas, thanks.

I’ve decided to adopt the “track time” approach after reading your post. As a freelance copywriter, it will be useful to know how much time goes to billable hours versus marketing and bookkeeping.

By: cleaning business

cleaning business — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:20:40 +0000

Hmmm, I like the local mastermind group idea, not centered around being a cleaning business consultant though, but more for a general sense of who I am and what I am doing business wise.

By: Chad Gardner

Chad Gardner — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:10:47 +0000

I agree with Paul on this one. When I see CEOs using social media, I am blown away with how they are able to create enough time in their day to keep up.

By: Eric Curtis

Eric Curtis — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:58:14 +0000

The real issue is follow through and execution. It is very simply to set goals and objectives to do during the day, week, month, etc, but it is very difficult to finish everything. Two reasons are: We over commit to doing to much because we want to satisfy too many people, when we should be concerned with our reputation which is based on doing and completing what you say you will do. The second thing is that we do not know how to map out a plan of execution based on strategy. It is not difficult and could be for something as simple as completing a specific marketing task or office work.

Stay committed and follow through, it is your reputation on the line!

Eric – http://theoctopussolution.blogspot.com/