Overcoming Procrastination: Accountability Best Practices to Accomplish Greatness in 2024

ACCOUNTABILITY has been on my mind a lot lately, specifically Accountability Groups. Accountability means showing up and setting out to accomplish the things you’d said you’d do. It’s about taking personal responsibility. AND sometimes our best plans and efforts leave us lacking. It’s been on my mind because I like to do online courses, ok let’s rephrase that, I like to buy online courses with all good intentions! Especially if they are on sale, who doesn’t love a great deal? 

Up until November 2022 I was doing well with an extensive online course, I am just half way through it with literally hundreds of hours into it, when I left for Maui for the month. Now it’s one year later and that online course is sitting in the same place 🙄 Life got abundant, things fall by the wayside and hey, it’s not that important. It just so happens there are others like me!!! 🙋🏻‍♀️ I happen to be connecting over Zoom with a fellow Dot Sister when she admitted the same things. Some may know her, Noemi in Cyprus ✨ We laughed about it and then how the story goes in my head, we said let’s do something about it. Let’s both work on one of our online courses and message each other in two weeks. 

✔️ I did it, I worked on my course for 2 hours and that was more than the entire year so it pumped me up. When we checked in, she had accomplished some progress too. We agreed to do more and check back in a week. Then on a different connect I mentioned my partner and she, Jacquie, joined in. Imagine this, she had some online courses to work on too! 🤩 I am thinking we could have a large network of peeps in this same situation!! We became official with a PM thread called Accountability Queens 👸 and we check in each week. Some weeks it’s a struggle for us all but for me, just the fact that I need to go to the group and say something is enough to do at least one segment (usually around 20 minutes). Winning!! #WendiWinning This just started in November so I am super excited to see if we can keep this up for a whole year, can you imagine I may be able to finish the course if we do!! No pressure Noemi and Jacquie in case you are reading this, I am sure I can find some others who have this thing about buying online courses that may wish a little accountability. 🤞

So if you are needing some accountability going into 2024 here’s some best practices to make a group work:

1. No wimps allowed!! 😂 Find people, maybe between 3-7, who desire more and may be looking to accomplish something similar. Remember that quote “You become what you surround yourself with. Energies are contagious. Choose carefully. Your environment will become you. 

2. Set up a time to check in! Maybe the same day and time to mark on your calendar. You can get on a call/Zoom or maybe you keep it simple like us and just have a PM thread. 

3. Frequency to meet? I suggest weekly. Enough time to get something done but not too long to forget again. 

4. What are your protocols? Everyone needs to be finding value from the group and also be respectful. What if someone doesn’t do what they said? How is that handled? 

OR if you are a Diamond Dot just get in on the Small Group Mastermind or Accountability Sessions offered!!