Accountability

Posted by Mompreneur-Pat at 13 April, 2008, 2:34 pm

My family (my Mom and my sisters) is notorious for going on “family diets.” We all start out with great intentions and lofty goals with rigid full-steam-ahead-rules of 3 pounds a week, and we’ll meet at moms house every Wednesday at 10 am and the-first-one-to-break-it-pays-everyone-200-dollar-penalties and so on and so on…then somebody breaks it and then everyone quits. I am every bit as guilty at breaking the “the family diet” as anyone in my family is, so I don’t blame any one in particular for this concept failing on an annual basis. This year, I told my family I’m not doing “the family diet” with them. Because it never works. By their reaction to my “defiance,” you would think I had committed a mortal sin. So when I caught word of “the family diet” fading off into the sunset, with no positive results (again), I was not at all surprised.

This week on the Mompreneur boards, Gwen from RC Toys started a simple thread, asking what we are going to do this week to promote and market our products – our PR goals. It was a great thread – so I wrote out my goals for the week – basicly stuff that I am already working on, (which are normally a million different things at once) but it was great to s-p-e-l-l -i-t -o-u-t. It made this cluttered ongoing mess of projects in my brain a lot more do-able. Well, actually they are always being done, but this way I was able to look back at the end of the week and realize I am constantly moving forward, and not just spinning my wheels (kind of like the dry erase board, in a mini version.) There were no “rules”, no “penalties” – so simple and uncomplicated – just do what we can and be accountable – to ourselves first and foremost, and to each other, just for fun. And it worked.

It was so cool to see what we all accomplished or didn’t accomplish throughout the week – and it was all okay, we supported each other – and it was fun. I hope we do it again.

Category : Meeting Goals

One Response to “Accountability”


Toy Mom April 13, 2008

I’m so glad you liked it! I agree with you when there’s no pressure – it takes away from the angst of having to do something.

I swear if someone tells me not to each sugar within 2 days I’m loading up on every candy bar and soda I can get my hands onto!!