Accountability Partner

A super great way to stay in action is to get an accountability partner. This partner is someone you have weekly meetings with (in person or over the phone/skype) to discuss what your goals are, how the week went and what plans you are committing to for the upcoming week.

How does an accountability partner weekly meeting help?

• Knowing someone is going to ask you about your progress.
• Verbalizing what's really important to you & your progress is amazingly energizing and focusing for the brain.
  
• When you spend dedicated time on YOU, the wiring of your brain changes. This focus and rewiring makes the change clearer and easier to make.
  

This weekly meeting will do wonders for your focus & progress!

When I speak to my coach, I know that she is going to ask me about everything I have committed to for the past week. As the week progresses, I hold myself more accountable and have a stronger commitment to my own actions. I begin my next week much more clearly focused on what my heart's priorities are. Instead of floating through the week on auto-pilot, I move much more mindfully and purposefully. I am grounded and centered in the life I want to be living.

Your accountability partner can be a

• professional coach,
  
• a friend,
  
• mentor,
  
• family member
• etc.
  

Your choice does need to be someone that can refrain from judging and offering much advice. The meetings are about you, your thinking and your progress, not their thinking or their way of doing things.

If and when you get a partner, I would love to hear how it goes for you.

Zen Dishes

I have begun to notice that I tense my shoulders when I clean or while working on regular household tasks during the day. I also noticed that my breathing becomes more shallow. For about nine months, I have had the lofty goal of being more zen about doing the dishes. Relaxing into it. Finding myself. Finding the peace. I mean, this is what life is made of. Not just the cooking but preparing for the cooking. Putting things in their place and being happy in that present moment that I get to do it. Breathing deeply and taking in my surroundings and not having to think hard. Being really present with those dishes and other household activities for that matter makes them more enjoyable. Sound fruity or pie-in-the-sky? I think it's really important that we take the time to breathe into every aspect of our day. I feel more connected with my life. I see better ways to get things done. We know that what we focus on expands. Even in that moment of dishes, suds and sponges, focusing on the peace really does make me more peaceful. Mind you, it took about nine months to get to this point.