Have you set a few HUGE 2011 goals yet? If you’re like me, I’m sure you have and you’re getting after them. If not, stop reading this and set a few goals NOW! Two full months into 2011, are you on track, behind or are you ahead of schedule in achieving them?

In interviewing nine successful entrepreneurs, including Brian Klemmer, Donna Johnson and Collette Larsen just to name a few, for my best-selling book, Time-Out! Winning Strategies for Playing a Bigger Game in Life, I found that not only did they all set goals for themselves, they also implemented accountability components to them. Accountability is a key for your success. Without it, your self-limiting beliefs will get the best of you when it gets uncomfortable and will usually derail you. In other words, when you are outside your comfort zone going after something you’ve never accomplished before, you will feel differently than you have ever felt before. Why? Because you are living and playing in the realm of possibility not probability – a place you haven’t been before.

In the next 48 hours, find a person that you can either pay to hold you accountable such as a coach, enroll in Samurai Camp if you’re a Heart graduate, or find someone you deeply respect or admire and ask them to hold you accountable. Then set up a weekly accountability call and STICK to it! In fact, place a stick or carrot as a consequence or reward when either you accomplish your goals or not. THAT will “up” your intention. Now go out and create the life of your dreams!

Embrace Risk, Embrace Success in 2011!

Tom Haupt, Personal Mastery Facilitator
Leadership Training