accountability

ACCOUNTABILITY
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Accountability is the opportunity to live at choice rather
than accidentally. Accountability is the opportunity to carve
out the future rather that to sit back and have it happen to you.
Accountability held from as stand as one’s word is the ground from
which one’s own transformation is created ongoingly.

Transformation lives in accountability. Without accounta-
bility, without committed speaking, without promises and
declarations, there is no transformation; there is, at best, peak
feelings.

A promise has real power. A promise made from the stand
that who you are is your word, engages you as participant. You
cease to be a spectator, and your words become actions that
actually impact the world. With a promise you create a condition
that supports your commitment rather than your moods. When
motivational dialog comes up about your preference versus your
commitments, and you disregard the dialog in favor of doing
what you said you would do solely because you said so, you
distinguish yourself from your psychology. In that moment you
are your word as an action, rather than only as an idea you have.

In that moment the promise becomes who you are rather than
something you said; and your relationship to the world shifts.
You find yourself producing results that seem discontinuous and
unpredictable from the point of view of the spectator. The
experience is one of joy, fearlessness, irrepressible energy and
satisfaction.

Transformation exists not only when we speak about it but
when we empower others to speak it..

… Werner Erhard

When I did the Forum back in the mid 80′s, this one statement made a difference to me. It put into words what I held at my core. I know that to hold anyone else to it is most likely not going to turn out how I think, but what is wrong with those who do not take accountability for their words, let alone actions.