Reasonable vs Accountable
Learn the difference between these terms to increase your effectiveness!
When you are achieving your goal and an excuse arrives, you can be one of two things: reasonable or accountable. One of these will keep you moving.
Newsletter overview
Being Reasonable
Being Accountable
Be Accountable
Message of the week
Threads of the week
Being Reasonable
By definition, it means
being in accordance with reason
In other words,
This means that you use judgment to do what’s appropriate or fair.
An Example
Imagine that you have a task on your to-do list that involves going door-to-door to promote your business. However, as you look outside, you notice that it is snowing. While it's not a full-blown snowstorm, the weather is just enough to make you feel discouraged and unmotivated.
As a result, you decide the reasonable thing to do is to not go and schedule for another day when the weather is better.
Being Accountable
By definition, it means
Obligation or willingness to accept responsibility
In other words,
This means that you take responsibility no matter the circumstance.
An Example
Continuing with the door-to-door example, you see that it is still snowing outside.
You understand that if you were to skip this task, you would miss a day to meet potential clients, and the growth of your business could be stunted as a result, especially if you missed multiple days.
As a result, no matter the circumstance, you take action to go out and knock on those doors. It may be brutal, but at least you know you’re not falling behind on your goal.
Be Accountable.
If you want to maintain or even make significant progress, you have to be unreasonable. In other words, you need to be accountable.
You need to take action, not because you want to, but because you have to.
Embracing accountability means recognizing the impact of our decisions, owning up to our mistakes, and taking proactive steps to make things happen. When we hold ourselves accountable, we demonstrate integrity and create a foundation for long-term success.
One must not give in to the temptation of inaction with all the excuses they can find.
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Message of the week
Being accountable has been something I’ve been working to perfect recently. I have so much on my schedule lately that I feel guilty taking undeserved breaks. Hopefully, you learn something valuable from this newsletter and find ways to remain accountable!
What I like to do is think about the consequences of inaction and wonder if there’s really something better to do.
Of course, don’t push it too much. If you have a broken ankle or are about to freeze to death, feel free to bail out lol
In other news
I recently got an invite to be a content writer on Binance Feed!
I accepted the invitation since I see this as an opportunity to expand my understanding of crypto and share my learnings with my followers on that platform.
I don’t plan to write that much in there yet, though, since I am a bit restricted on time. Perhaps once every month or every two weeks. We’ll see.
For now, if you’re interested to follow me there as well, you can do so here
Threads of the week
Highlighting some threads I enjoyed reading this past week
A little shameless plug… Since GPT-4 was recently released, I wrote a thread on 5 ways it can revolutionize Web3.
Check it out!
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Reasonable vs Accountable
Without knowing it, I've been being accountable, there are moments when I've thought "I'll do this later" but something inside me tells me "no, do it now" and I do it, then I think, good thing I did it, because it saves me time to do other things, so things don't accumulate.
By the way, congratulations on becoming a content writer on Binance Feed! much deserved!