Authors, Our Success Is a Result of What We Do: Accountability

9 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business

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The ninth in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”

— Moliere

“At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves — our success is a result of what we do.”

— Catherine Pulsifer

If responsibility (Lesson 3) can be construed as the inspiring aspect of “it’s all up to you,” then accountability is its taskmaster twin. It’s understanding that it’s your job and yours alone to get done the things that matter to you; it’s ensuring that your desired tasks, results, changes happen; and it’s answering in the end to yourself.

• Do you want your book appearing in a whole range of media at the rate of once a week? That’s on you.
• Do you want to do an average of one author event and one podcast interview a month. Also on you.
• Do you want to grow your email list to 2,000 subscribers this year? You.
• You.