Certified Personal Accountant

I've been obsessed for the past 6 months or so with the idea of personal accountability. As most anyone who knows me can tell you, I believe that if you don't "own it", you can't fix it.

However, I never realized how much my personal life and my professional life seem to mirror one another until this year.

At work, I have always chosen to approach the business as if it were my own. It has had wildly varying results. Likewise, my personal life has yielded a similar consequence.

In the past, when I have been frustrated by the job, company or position, my personal life has reflected it. The two, simultaneously, have crumbled in unison. I just never realized it. The highs were extreme. The lows... Devastating.

When I am most free to create at work and run the business like it is my own, my personal life has always fallen into place as well.

Accordingly, I have discovered that the concept of personal accountability is truly a measure of self worth.

The idea of taking responsibility for my life, it's actions, reactions, flaws and faults is monumentally beneficial to me as a person. It has allowed me to remain humble but also, allow me to LEARN from past events. Events that previously I would chalk up as fate, human error or growing pains, I now see as having been avoidable, clouded judgement and/or immaturity.

I know that all of the things that happened to me last year aren't my fault, per se. But accepting my part in those events has allowed me to accept them emotionally and, as Cheezy as it sounds, grow from the experiences both professionally and personally.

The key for 2012 has been to keep the positive energy going and not to allow frustration or negativity (from myself OR others) to derail me from my ultimate goal. Genuine happiness.

So now, the first two months are complete and I'm more focused than ever. Things are getting better and better every day. The people who have entered my life and peace I feel are immeasurable. Moreover, I'm amazed every day at where I am and how quickly I got here.

Professionally, life has more potential now than, arguably, ever before.

Personally, I'm stronger, happier and more independent than ever before. It is truly an unbelievable feeling.

I feel unstoppable. It's as if all of the chaos and confusion of my whole life ended on New Year's Eve. I do understand that New Year's and its resolutions are merely symbolic. But it has been an indescribable and unprecedented personal transformation for me since that day.

It's no coincidence. It's about accepting responsibility for every aspect and event of my life and it is truly about personal accountability.

See it.
Own it.
Change it.

Period.