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Do you take accountability? Where will coaching lead you?
Updated: Jul 27, 2021
Ever left your work halfway? Ever been working with someone who left it halfway and assumed you will take over? How does that sound?
Did it make you cringe? Thought as much.
This is where accountability comes into picture. Accountability means to be liable to oneself and the work one undertakes to do. That simply means one is accountable for whatever he or she does be it in personal or professional life. It’s all about taking responsibility for all the actions you do and the related consequences. You are accountable to yourself, your life and career goals.

When your actions are not accounted for, you may actually adversely impact your career and sometimes your mental health. It may make you frustrated and demotivated. Without the push to improve oneself there lies no scope of growth, thereby end up with the decision of quitting. If you are not taking accountability for your actions, ask yourself – who is really driving your life?
Accountability means you are responsible for both your success as well as your failure. Most of us find it easier to take on the success and blame the external forces as the cause for our failure. But mistakes, failures are inevitable part of life. Sooner or later we are bound to cross roads with them. Do we learn or do we shun it? The attitude is a choice.
You do not take ownership overnight. It takes baby steps to get there i.e. from defining micro goals, breaking down tasks into smaller achievable targets, analyzing one’s own strengths and weakness, skill sets etc. Awareness on the work which is being done, making note of the mistakes and working on the same are some of the basic things of being self accountable.
"At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves - our success is a result of what we do." - Catherine Pulsifer