Peace of Mind Organizing

Accountability

22 March 2007

I earned my living as a freelance writer for ten years before starting my organizing business. Writing comes easy for me. So you’d think that having a blog would be a piece of cake. After all, I get to write whatever I want, whenever I want. So why haven’t I posted an entry in over two weeks?

I know exactly why. It’s the absence of a deadline. As a writer, I was terribly deadline oriented. It was the kiss of death if an editor told me turn a story in whenever I wanted (thankfully, that didn’t happen often). I needed a deadline to get started and to complete a story.

Apparently I still do. There are no deadlines with blogs, unless I impose one. There’s no urgency to write. And I’m not writing very frequently. Obviously, my blog will do me no good—from either a business or personal perspective—if I don’t write in it.

So right here, right now, I’m making a commitment. I will post an entry on this blog twice a week. If I’m so inclined, I’ll do it more often. But at the very least I’ll post twice a week. Starting with this entry, today. Which means that on or before March 29, a week from today, there will be another entry, in addition to this one.

In the fabulous Coach Approach for Organizers class that I’m taking (taught by Denslow Brown and Cam Gott), we talk about holding our clients accountable for the actions they promise to take toward their goals. By declaring my blog-posting goals here, I’m hereby making myself accountable.

Watch this space.

Tagged with: accountability, coaching, deadlines, writing

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