Research shows that having someone to make you accountable makes it more likely you’ll achieve your goal. According to American Society of Training and Development here are the percentages for achieving goals at various stages:
- Hear an idea: 10%
- Consciously decide to adopt it: 25%
- Decide when you will do it: 40%
- Plan how to do it: 50%
- Commit to someone else that you will do it: 65%
- Have a specific accountability appointment with the person committed to: 95%
In fact precision and specificity in establishing rituals virtually guarantees you will succeed. Tony Schwartz in the Power of Full Engagement and his new book Be Excellent at Anything provide many examples of the importance of building precision and specificity into your rituals.
In one group of subjects who were asked to exercise for twenty minutes during the week, 29% complied. When a second group was given the same challenge including detailed information about the significant role exercise plays in reducing heart disease compliance rose to 39%. Yet when a third group was asked to commit to exercising at a specific time, on a specific day, at designated location compliance more than doubled to 91%.
Do you have something you want to accomplish? Is there something you’ve been longing to achieve for a long time and want with all your heart? Professional Business/Life coaching specializes in helping you set a time, day and place to begin! We also provide accountability and encouragement to execute effectively your plans, reaching your goals! With performance coaching from PerformAchieve, you are almost assured to accomplish what you set out to do.
So what do you want? What’s going to be your excuse this time for not getting it done? You know how to avoid it, do something about it now.
We are an experienced business/life coaching company that focuses on helping professionals execute their plans more effectively by using “Periodization” – developed by Strategic Breakthroughs LLC – as our coaching platform.
Contact me – Stephen@performachieve.com -or- call Stephen Cottle @ 517.294.1968