How I plan to Force Accountability on myself

Intro

While drafting this intro I nearly drew myself into a procrastination loop about whether I should use my own name or not. I was half a second away from listing pros and cons, asking friends, maybe sketching up a Venn Diagram. My name is Adam Perry and I am an addict…

Why am I writing this?

This blog is for me, not you. It is my attempt to force accountability on myself while tracking my progress toward my goals and hopefully to elucidate the steps necessary to reproduce my way of achieving success as a Real Estate Agent.

Starting point

I am 6 months into my career as a Realtor operating out of Keller Williams Elite Realty in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. I have 0 prior experience in anything to do with Real Estate; However, I did operate my own Exterior Finishing (Construction) business from 2012–2015. While operating my business I became fairly comfortable with the process required for landing jobs. I was good at it. Unfortunately I was terrible at a few of the other key aspects of operating your own business and I was far too willing to take risks based on intuition and self confidence. Long story short, I am still to this day (2019–08–15) $26k in debt from that business, I have no savings and I have maxed out a credit card  trying to transition 100% into Real Estate and out of Longshoring. I recently started going back to the docks to catch up my bills unit I broke my knee cap August 3rd. Now I have no choice, I have to make this work.

What’s The Plan?

I am intending to write up and post a set of rules that I must follow every day. These rules will be based on 3 selected resources that I will adhere to while intentionally remaining ignorant to other methods. If I give myself the opportunity to learn more before starting, I will take it and postpone starting indefinitely. My 3 selected resources are:

1. The One Thing by Gary Keller
2. The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
3. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

I chose The One Thing for determining how I goal set and prioritize my time. The 4 Hour work Week will be my operations manual for laying out my business model and The Lean Startup will provide the principles I use for scrutinizing each decision I make in the hopes of reducing bias based risk and clarifying what I should do next.

The Kicker

Once I have established my rules and goals, I will select 3–5 people that I really do not want to even know about this blog and link it to them. With their permission I will post my selections and rationale for why they were selected. The idea is much like how you are suddenly motivated to power clean your home when someone important says they are coming over. The fear of my selected people actually reading this will hopefully drive me to follow through with the promises I make here.

My first set of promises:

By 11:00am tomorrow I will publish…

1. 1) The set of rules I must follow.
2. 2) My single most important goal along with the steps I intend to take to get there.
3. 3) 3 People I feel will drive productivity through fear.

Disclaimer I am not in contact with nor do I receive any benefit of any kind for mentioning any brand names or products in this series.