Health & Fitness -- Accountability is No-nonsense Encouragement

On this page you will find useful information on your accountabilty agreements...
• Peer Coaching Arrangement: how your weekly coaching calls will work
• Rules of Accountability: Tools you agree to use
• Holding Your Partner Accountable: Tips on no-nonsense encouragement
• Being Held Accountable: What you are being held accountable to and for
• Peer Coaching Agenda: The structure of your weekly accountability phone call

You agree to meet weekly by phone with your peer-coaching team (if you don't have access to a 3-way conference calling feature, feel free to use a service like FreeConferenceCall.com )

There are three people on your accountability team
• Person A holds person B accountable
• Person B holds person C accountable
• Person C holds person A accountable

So, nobody is being held accountable by the person holding them accountable

Each participant agrees to devote themselves to the individual they are holding accountable for the period of The Fitness Race.

Each participant agrees to selfelessly serve the individual they are holding accountable, by investing, time, thought and (no nonsense) encouragement until the end of their race.

Back to top 

• I agree to document my goals each week and submit them to both my peer-coach and Mark Little (rapidresponse@thefreedomexperience.com) no later than 10:00 A.M. each Monday morning for that week.

• I agree to utilize the WPPP format (click here) as my Weekly goal setting format

• I agree to run my week starting on Monday ending on Sunday

Back to top
   

   • Always communicate with your partner the way you would want to be treated in the same situaion.

   • Tell them what they need to hear, not just what they want to hear

   • Be willing to tell them the truth... even if it risks the relationship

   • Finally, as a wise man once said, "You are responsible to others, but not for them." Your job is to keep your partner focused on the fact that it's not thinking about physical training and great nutrition that will get them fitter... it's taking action. Your partner has to do the work required of their goal... you can't do it for them (your job is to help keep them focused on what they can control & to ignore those things they can't).

"You can't pay someone to do your push-ups for you"

- Jim Rohn

(Jim Rohn is an inspiration to me... click here for Jim Rohn Resources. I especially recommend "The Challenge To Succeed")

Back to top

I agree to

• Show up on time
• Do what I say I'm going to do
• Finish to the end of The Fitness Race
• Proactively encourage the other participants

Back to top 

• Plan a 60 minute call (start & end on time)
• Spend 20 minutes on each participant
• Start with a different participant each week
• STICK TO THE AGENDA: Save all small-talk & chit-chat for some other call (or at the end... if there's time)
• Let each participant give their report uninterrupted

• AGENDA

PARTICIPANT'S REPORT (5 - 10 minutes):
   • My Race goal is (Name of goal & target date)
   • I am currently (on track, off-track) to my goal
   • The most positive progress since my last report is...
   • Last week I made the following commitments...
   • My actual activity was...
   • My commitments for the upcoming week is...
   • My most important result for the week will be...
   • (OPTIONAL, BUT RECOMMENDED: The one thing that is no longer acceptable is...)

Now that this participant has given their report uninterrupted, you, as the peer coach spend the remaining 10 - 15 minutes with the following agenda:
   • Affirm and congratulate progress by pointing out the positive behavior noted that drove the result
   • Clarify any qustions or confusion about the report just given
   • In a caring loving way, uncover any gaps between behavior and the effort required to achieve the goal (help them discove the single most important improvement to accelerate achieving their goal)
   • For any missed commitments ask "for the future, if you had to do it all over again... what would you do differently to achieve a successful result?"
   • ACTION ITEM: Email a weekly affirmation to your peer-coaching partner by Monday at 10:00 A.M. (cc: Mark Little at rapidresponse@thefreedomexperience.com): Include any affirmations you feel will help, but be certain to please include one of the two following phrases in your email each week, so Mark knows the situation: 1) "Congratulations on living up to your agreement to yourself last week" or, alternately, if didn't meet their agreements 2) "Congratulations on coming up with strategies to meet your agreements to yourself this week"

Back to top