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Let’s talk today about accountability and why I believe it’s the key to personal growth, to emotional, spiritual transformation.
So we live in the information era. right. We live in the digital era, and with it we got an overflow of information on any topic. You can just search and find information how-to on anything. It could be on something like how to take a stain off a shirt. But it can also be how to meditate, how to grow your business, your inner game, how to gain confidence, on anything.
And that was just like a burst that opened up such a wonderful window to all of us, to everyone. But sometimes we go in one direction, and then it’s like we’re out of balance. So then came the era of transformation. Okay, so there’s online courses now to help you transform. Because it’s not enough just to have information, right? We need the transformation. Even if it’s to clean a stain off your shirt., it’s not just the information, you want the transformation. You actually want to be able to do it. So it has to be good video that teaches you how to take the stain off. It has to actually work. And the same goes with personal growth and transformation. Spiritual business, emotional, psychological, whatever it is.
And so it became all about transformation. And so self paced courses again, blogs, tons of free material, how to meditate. And so whether you do it from free videos or an online self paced course, it’s all about transformation.
So now we have that piece in place. So we have information. We have transformation. Well, I think that the next stage has to do with relationship, connection, community and accountability.
And so why is accountability so important? Accountability is based in relationship and connection.
You’re either accountable to yourself, which means that there’s two parts of you. There’s the action you’re taking, the promise you’re making to yourself so you show up fully. You’re accountable to yourself.
When you’re accountable to another, then again, it has to do with connection and relationship. You make a promise to yourself to show up for somebody else. You make a promise to somebody else to show up for them
And you have somebody else there who is caring for you. Somebody else who is watching what you’re doing, who’s there to witness your growth, your transformation, to be there with your challenges, the pain you might be experiencing and releasing and to celebrate your successes.
So accountability really has to do with being two, at least.
Being someone there for you, who you have to show up for and someone who is promising to show up for you.
And then there’s accountability to our planet, to our communities and the larger planet. And that has to do with their values and principles. And it’s important because in a digital age we could just get lost in doing whatever we want to do. We can stay anonymous, and we’re not accountable to anything in anyone.
And so being accountable first to ourselves, then to another, and then to live with values and principles through the Internet, through the Web, where we can connect and we can influence situations or organizations that are on the other side of the planet. So to do that with integrity and have accountability to be here for each other is really important in our day and age. In order to create wholeness, to restore spiritual material balance to your life, to all of her life, to our world, to our planet.
And so in this digital era where we have access to all the information we need and you might say, OK, I can get everything for free. Just go on YouTube, read blogs, that’s Fabulous. That’s step number one.
The second step is you want the transformation. You want whatever it is to actually have an effect on you. You actually want to learn how to meditate, not see somebody else teaching how to meditate. And then it never works for you, right? And so with anything else.
And so the third component that needs to come in and is going to come in more and more that is the connection the relationship. And that happens through accountability, through support. Because in accountability there is relationship. There’s connection. There is showing up for yourself and for each other.
And so whatever you’re interested in, however, you choose to grow emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, do it with somebody else. Find yourself a coach, find yourself a therapist, a mentor. Find yourself a self help group at a place where people care for each other, where people are gonna say, where is she she didn’t show up today? What’s happening with you? Where people care about your transformation, where people really want you to grow and succeed.
Because ultimately, what moves us and touches us is other people’s stories, other people’s struggles that we can relate to and other people’s successes when we can celebrate them.
And what allows us to rise and to release our challenges and our traumas is when somebody else is witness to us. When somebody else is there for us.
Leave me a comment and say what do you need the most when it comes to getting support and having accountability.
Blessings.
