Self Accountability is the Key to your Circumstances

So stop letting yourself off and take control of your opportunities.

Change, Action and Momentum are the three big focus words between where you are and where you want to be but don’t even dare to believe it possible.

As New Zealanders, we all need to realise that we have so much opportunity and so much to be grateful for. It seems that many people have no means to access or believe in the existence of their potential or the opportunities that await them if they did. It seems pointless to be defining everything by whose fault it is – both positively and negatively. But it does seem critical to understand what causes people to have self-sabotaging beliefs, so ready to default to self-destructive behaviour. Is it just a lack of self-accountability and purpose? Or is it a deeper connection to who we think we are that limits what we think we can do and become. The cleverest people in this field aren’t even close to knowing how to fix this dilemma, at best our politicians make changes when what is not working becomes too uncomfortable.

It seems we are each left needing to focus on our intention and behaviour accountable not only for ourselves, but our community, country, and the planet.

My intention in highlighting this dilemma is to show that we all have choices, we are all self-accountable and we are all free to be successful if we want to put the effort in and believe in ourselves.
We have a free education system that in many countries is totally not available, we have a very small but generous population of mostly supportive people, and a beautiful country abundant with opportunity (ask any of our immigrants that go to great lengths just to get here). We have resources like fast broadband to access almost an infinite library of knowledge and connection to the rest of the world.

There seems to be global agreement that we are living in a time of incredible change. Some people feel it as a loss, some are feeling uncertain, but most people are feeling things aren’t as they were, even if they can’t explain it. That might be described as “change”, the feeling that something is different. Good times don’t necessarily come pre-packaged and labelled as “good times”.
Good times are the result of many ordinary people taking some sort of “action” and when this feels important, fun and exciting it feels much easier to maintain the effort. In times of increased change opportunities also exponentially increase for those that are self-accountable and that can adapt to new ideas.

Much of our daily actions are triggered by a desire or need, but when they are fuelled by our emotions, we are either to become positively or negatively connected to what we are doing. I believe it is this emotional connection that enhances some experiences over others and helps create experiences as a memory that we wish to re-experience.

A positive memory feeds our desire to repeat the feeling and when the action is repeated over and over, we are creating “momentum”. This is an essential process in creating power and an unstoppable force to create change. Once our idea and actions have created strong momentum, we have also created our first level of resilience for when we have doubts or a minor setback. The more momentum we create, the stronger and faster our progress to impacting our circumstance and those around us.

There may or may not have been a better time to live in the world or in NZ, but now is the time you have been given. Picture a country or business where everyone wanted to learn, wanted to improve their knowledge and skills, wanted to master their job, be a good parent and were proud to contribute more than they took. Imagine if everyone also had the courage to be free, realising that independence and the chance to fail is at the very core of that freedom.

We can all change if we want to. We can all take action, and with perseverance we can all create momentum to impact our circumstances. So let us make 2023 the year that we all became more accountable.