20230309-The Accountability Trap; Holding Yourself Accountable Without Holding Yourself Down

As a follow up to my Sunday video (20230304 The Drunkards Walk of Progress) I got to thinking about progress and accountability.

Change is hard and as you get older, it gets harder. Making serious change in the final act is really hard, yet that is what I've chosen to do.

If you want to make change, you must hold yourself to account, but therein lies a trap.

When you're young and resilient, change is much easier, and failure is easier to overcome. When you're older, change is harder, and failure is much more daunting.

You have to hold yourself to account, but if you're too hard on yourself, if you only see the failures and not the progress, you have set yourself up for failure.

Don't do it. Hold yourself accountable, but down bring yourself down.