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December 1, 2024

Sunday SAGe Newsletter Volume 11: Be Audacious with Your Accountability

Happy Sunday!

Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive during the coming week (and beyond!).

This week’s focus is on accountability and its relationship to adopting change in your life. Is there a change you want to make that has been especially stubborn to adopt? This Sunday SAGe can help.

Be Audacious with Your Accountability

An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:

This change adoption technique is my favorite. It can be a forcing function to encourage you to treat your intention as a top priority, not just in mind but in action.

What audacious reward or penalty can you create that will raise the stakes and give you almost no choice but to adopt the change you seek?

What It Means

Every human on the planet has things they can work on, changes they could adopt that would bring more happiness, fulfillment, and love into their lives. But making the change, no matter how logical it may be, isn’t always that simple. There are trade-offs to consider and comfort zones with ten-foot high fences around them, monitored by drones, that don’t allow an easy escape into a better world. Let’s face it: Change can be hard, but the status quo can be even harder.

To adopt a difficult change, you must disrupt the inertia that holds you back. What audacious reward or penalty will motivate you to blast out of your comfort zone so you can live a better life?

Do you want ideas to get the juices flowing? How about this one: If you want to exercise regularly but can’t seem to maintain a consistent routine, offer to take a friend out to dinner at the best restaurant in town whenever you miss your exercise intentions for the week. Or, if you want to eliminate a vice, promise a family member that you’ll give them one of your paychecks if you fail.

Your Call to Action

Think about a change you could make that would move your life forward, a change that would mean you’re truly nurturing the wonderful gift of your existence. Take a walk around your neighborhood and envision what your life will be like once you adopt the change.

Now, what would be an audacious reward or penalty that you could attach to it that would give you no practically choice but to adopt the change? Meditate on the possibilities. Get excited. Then, implement the reward or penalty and make the change happen!

Have a thriving week!