Comments on: Your Best Business Asset: An Accountability Partner

By: The Pivotal Point: Not Giving Up Too Soon « ANDYWERGEDAL

The Pivotal Point: Not Giving Up Too Soon « ANDYWERGEDAL — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:59:45 +0000

[...] support. Get an accountability partner to help you stay the course. It’s a lot easier to waiver when you don’t have someone else [...]

By: The Pivotal Point: Not Giving Up Too Soon

The Pivotal Point: Not Giving Up Too Soon — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:01:57 +0000

[...] support. Get an accountability partner to help you stay the course. It’s a lot easier to waiver when you don’t have someone [...]

By: 3 Ways to Overcome Inertia

3 Ways to Overcome Inertia — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:02:06 +0000

[...] needed a way to start faster than that and really get over those mental blocks that come along with the magnitude of writing a book (a whole book) or starting a membership site. [...]

By: I never knew » Blog Archive » Accountability Partners and Costructuring

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:21:47 +0000

[...] just read about the concept of an accountability partner where two people pair up to help each other “stay on track toward reaching your goals and [...]

By: 5 Reasons Why You Need An Accountability Partner | Dr Jon Alfredsson

5 Reasons Why You Need An Accountability Partner | Dr Jon Alfredsson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:02:49 +0000

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By: Blog Accountability for 2010 | Tim Bursch

Blog Accountability for 2010 | Tim Bursch — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:53:21 +0000

[...] recently read a great article on Web Worker Daily about having an accountability partner in business. Fits with my idea of a [...]

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Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:02:43 +0000

[...] ago begin slow. An idea that’s a bit scary is finding someone to hold you accountable. An Accountability Partner is key to staying on track, I suggest you do some reaserch and find a AP… If you do these [...]

By: Accountability Partnership Q&A

Accountability Partnership Q&A — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:01:11 +0000

[...] an interest in knowing more about my accountability partnership, so here’s a follow-up to my previous posts, answering the questions that were [...]

By: Amber Riviere

Amber Riviere — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:10:17 +0000

I missed you somehow earlier, Nick. Yes, I agree. If my accountability partner is expecting me to complete something, I hate to have to say that I didn’t get it done. It makes it much easier to actually reach my goals that way!

By: Amber Riviere

Amber Riviere — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:45:40 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, Betsy. It was actually very helpful to our partnership and businesses that we didn’t know a lot about our individual personal lives for a while, even after becoming accountability partners. It let us get a sound foundation for where we both wanted to go business-wise, since that was the first goal of the partnership, and then we added in the balance of the rest of our lives over time. It was a very important transition, I think.

By: Betsy Talbot

Betsy Talbot — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:55:16 +0000

Amber, I think one of the reasons our relationship works is that we became accountability partners first and friends second. It removes the possibility of an alternate agenda when you really don’t know a lot of personal information about your partner. You focus on the business and stay clear-headed about that and what your partner has started are her goals.

I moved away from my hometown about 10 years ago after a divorce, and it was amazing to see how differently I was treated in my new location. I finally realized it was because people were seeing me as I was at that moment, not the way I was 5, 10, or 15 years ago. It also helped *me* see what the current me was like without a filter from the past. Sometimes in our personal relationships people focus on what we used to be instead of what we are, which is why having an accountability partner who can see you as you are *now* makes all the difference.

Your accountability partner has to clear-headed about who you are now and where you are going in the future, and you owe them the same courtesy.

By: Nick@Subject2.com

Nick@Subject2.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:25:22 +0000

I have always been more successful at completely my tasks and goals when I had someone else to answer to.

It’s easy to let yourself down, not so easy to let others down. Great article, I’m glad I was referred to it.

By: Amber Riviere

Amber Riviere — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:49:36 +0000

Thanks, Congo. Yes, that’s exactly what I was trying to explain in yesterday’s response (sorry, I’m sleep-deprived this week)! The dynamic is somewhat different between coach/client and accountability partners. It’s very much symbiotic, so I think it can potentially be a life-long relationship, where (as Trina mentioned) you wouldn’t want a dependency to develop with a coach. They’re different in that way, I think.

By: Amber Riviere

Amber Riviere — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:42:39 +0000

Thank you, Tyler. I will do just that. I’ll write the post over the coming days (hopefully tomorrow), but it might take a bit for it to get published (not my department). Please, if you have specific questions, email them to me so that I can cover what will really help you (mail[at]amberriviere[dot]com). The same goes for anyone else who is curious or has specific questions.

By: Amber Riviere

Amber Riviere — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:39:10 +0000

Thanks, Stephan. It’s taken a lot of dedication and tweaking to get our partnership to where it is today, so I now think she and I both have learned a lot about how to make an accountability partnership work. I need to email her and get her in on this conversation, in fact! :)

By: Amber Riviere

Amber Riviere — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:36:41 +0000

Flyblown Crisis – I know for some, a spouse or family member might end up being an accountability partner, and it works. It’s great that your wife focuses on profits! I would say that if you are going to have a friend or family member be your accountability partner, then you definitely need to have some objective metrics (like profits, web traffic, subscribers, etc.) to track. That way, you’re focused on numbers, not emotionally-driven and subjective things that might get biased opinions/feedback.