This is a series of thoughts addressing the theme of excellence based on a famous quote from Rita Mae Brown, the American novelist and activist. She stated that “You cannot invest your life’s spirit into a compromise” and I am visiting some of the key components of this viewpoint and how it relates to your life.
Theme – Accept responsibility to hold others accountable
As we discussed earlier in this series of blogs holding oneself accountable to one’s values and purposes is the key to maintaining integrity.
If you say one thing and do another in your life you have little chance of generating trust with others.
The extension of this is that when you take your values and purposes to an endeavour you have the opportunity to leverage yourself through others. This could be your work team or your circle of influence.
The key to getting your integrity to the public and getting traction lies in you being willing and able to hold firstly yourself and then others responsible to the agreements that you have with them.
The key to having your Quadrant 3 part fulfilled is a harmonious relationship with others. This part has a reluctance to confront others for fear of rejection and so agreements can be assumed rather than expressly stated.
Holding others accountable can be an uncomfortable process for this part of you but it is the necessary essence of ‘tough love’. It does require that you expose yourself to others and that you risk facing their rejection of you.
The central theme of this process is that you will hold people to the agreements that they have made with you so make sure that the agreements that you make are clear, clean and understood by all parties.
When this is done and revisited on a regular basis you will enjoy the satisfaction of seeing your life and relationships soar to higher levels of productivity, results and returns.
