Get It Done: The 21-Day Mind Hack System to Double Your Productivity and Finish What You Start by Michael Mackintosh

Author:Michael Mackintosh [Mackintosh, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TCK Publishing
Published: 2018-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

An important word in setting up accountably is external. You are accountable to an external, outside influence for your actions and results—not an internal influence. In other words, you are not just accountable to yourself, but to someone else.

The importance of having external influences holding you accountable

Why can’t you just be accountable to yourself? For years I felt that I should be able to do everything I wanted to do on my own without any help from anyone else. My reasoning was that anything I really wanted to do was my choice and my responsibility. Therefore, if I wanted to do it, I would. My mind would say things like: “I can make this happen on my own! I don’t need any help from anyone. I don’t like involving anyone else. It’s my project so it’s up to me to do it!” My “spiritual” ego protested the idea of accountability by saying things like, “I don’t need any human beings to help me; I’m too spiritual for that. I can do it with God; I can rely on my spiritual power or higher self.”

This Resistance to external accountability is common in entrepreneurs and creators. Many of us who go out on our own to make things happen are proud, independent, stubborn people who don’t like to involve others in our creative process, and certainly don’t like to be told what to do. We love our freedom and will often fight to the death to maintain it. That’s one of the main reasons we become entrepreneurs in the first place. We quit our jobs so we could be our own bosses, do what we want, and live on our own schedule, free of external accountability and being told what to do. But this so-called freedom and lack of external accountability ultimately and routinely backfires on us.

Without anyone to answer to except ourselves, our Resistance creeps in. Without our being aware of what is happening we start to create long lists of clever excuses to keep us stuck in our limitations while this sabotaging part of us convinces us that we are heroes who can do everything on our own. This warped sense of freedom and false sense of pride is our downfall. If we’re not careful, we will be fooled by our clever self-sabotage and waste our lives away as slaves to our limited thinking while simultaneously believing we are free.

After enough failure and self-sabotage, I finally became humble enough to realize I had a big ego and ruthless Resistance and I simply couldn’t do this all on my own. If I could have, I would already have been doing it. If you could do everything you wanted to, you’d already be doing it, but you aren’t. As long as we’re left to our own warped thinking, we’ll be stalling, wading around in BS, and getting nowhere.

Your own mind has failed you

Your inner voice has been lying to you. You really do need support to succeed if you want to achieve something important and meaningful in life.

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