CHAPTER 8

Personal Accountability System Examples

Creating an Accountability System

An accountability system can be as simple as keeping a list of everything you want to do on a piece of paper and crossing each item out as you complete the task. At the end of a day or a week, some people simply transfer the remaining items to another piece of paper.

The importance of writing your plan down can’t be overestimated. As social research scientists Cialdini and Goldstein found in Change Anything, simply writing down your plan increases your chances of success by 30 percent or more.

And research by psychologists Febbraro and Clum on self-regulatory components in Clinical Psychology Review found that self-monitoring positively affected mental health. ...

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