SELF-ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountability is an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions -Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

It is not the responsibility of only those holding public offices or those working in an organization to be accountable. There is room for self-accountability where one give account of one's personal action to oneself or better still to people who are interested in you. If one can't be responsible for his/her actions or inactions then to really go deeper and higher might be difficult.

Accountability when is about one self does not necessarily mean you should give account to your assessment to anybody. Self-accountability is just a means to be honest with one's personal set down rules, guidelines and goals as well. It is a means to checkmate if one's action is in line with the set goal(s) or life purpose in order to avoid falling.

If all we do is act then we might miss out on something we ought to achieve or missed out on the procedures to follow. If helps to figure out when one is deviating from his or her aims and objectives or using more than the time and resources we should use to accomplish it.

The place of self-accountability is very pertinent to growth in life. Especially when we want to avoid past mistakes from repeating itself or to minimize new one's to the lowest rate because mistake is inevitable. It requires sincerity, commitment and discipline because it is not easy to put into place and to put one on check is easily done to others than to one self.

To be accountable to oneself and about oneself can be either in financial aspect, personal development, morally, spiritually, purpose or goal setting and in all facets of life. It can be done within one self or given to someone with like mind in order to avoid sentiment and negligence on our part. It can be given to mentors, friends(reasonable ones), coach, leaders. It aid growth, transparency and also to help one realize when things are going the wrong way or even to avoid going the wrong way.

So far you have a goal and purpose in life then you have to be accountable about each step and action you take

SELF-ACCOUNTABILITY IS AN INDISPENSABLE FACTOR THAT BRINGS DEVELOPMENT AND AID MOVEMENT.

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