Using Joe’s Goals For Daily Accountability

As I see it, part of being a professional, or perhaps having the attitude of a professional, whether you get paid for your creative output or not, is being accountable for your actions.

If you were going to show your portfolio to a gallery curator, you would make the appointment and you would show up.
If you had the opportunity to pitch your novel to New York’s best literary agent, you would make the appointment and you would show up.

These are no brainers.

But what I’m talking about is daily accountability.
The act of making an appointment, and then showing up, and accomplishing that task that leads you toward your stated goal.

As we have discussed before, showing up is of prime importance to achieving any goal.

And those goals can be different for each of us.

Perhaps you want to write a novel.
Perhaps you want to write a screenplay.
Perhaps you want to put together a poetry collection.
An exhibit of your photographs.
Lose 10 pounds.
Workout more, and sculpt a healthy body.

To accomplish these goals, you need to take action on a daily basis.

And that can be damn hard.

But I’ve found a tool called simply “Joe’s Goals” that will help you track your progress and remind you to show up on a daily basis.

It’s as simple as putting a little check mark next to your To Do.
It’s as satisfying as the teacher putting a smiley face or gold star on your homework.

You can have both positive goals (take that vitamin, write one chapter, go to the gym) and negative goals, whereby you are penalized one (or more) of those gold stars for eating that donut for breakfast or skipping that workout.

Remember that saying “One ‘oh shit!’ wipe out all ‘attaboys’?”

So go check out Joe’s Goals and see if it might be an online tool that would prove useful to keeping you honest and accountable for the small actions necessary to achieve amazing things.

I’ve got a screenshot here to show you how it might work for you. Or me.