Help me out. Read this and give me advice!

In his blog, Seth Godin, has some good thoughts about goals. He says,

"The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run.
It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact... those people have goals."

I'm the kind of person who has a lot of goals, sometimes for four or five different areas of my life. I don't know if you're like me, but I've noticed that I also need a lot of help to accomplish my goals. Recently, I asked on twitter & facebook if there is such a thing as too much accountability. Some people said it depends and others said no, you can never have enough.

I have never had someone come to me and say, "Man I have too much accountability in my life!" The truth is, we need other people in our lives who know what we're trying to accomplish.

I was in a meeting with Pastor Kevin this week and we were talking about the things we measure at the church. He told the room that if you're going to count something, then you need to have accountability for what you're measuring.

So, here's the deal. I'm trying to lose weight. I've been trying to lose weight for a while (years). I go down and I go up in weight. (Luckily, I've been going down more than up!) But, I've never told people how I'm really doing week to week.

Help me out! What would be good accountability for my goal? Should I put it in my blog? Post it on my office door? Post it up on Facebook and Twitter? Pick a few people?

...to Myth #2

Comments

[Chris Moncus]

First, if someone won't hold me accountable on their own, I trick myself into making myself accountable to them. I mostly eliminate words like "soon", "maybe", and "should" from my vocabulary because if they tell me "soon" it could easily be 4 months before it feels soon enough to follow through. So I tell them "I'll get them to you soon. How is a week from Friday? Ok good. I'll have them to you then." Then, in Spinal Tap style, I try and turn the volume up to 11 and give it to them Thursday, a day early. This is my business/church model but I think setting reasonable goals and telling the world "this is my weight now. watch me lose X pounds. My goal this week is Y." I know for me, I hate disappointing people and failing my commitment would make me struggle harder. My two cents.