Archives for January 2021

The 4 B’s: A Powerful Accountability Practice for the Four Main Areas of Your Life

As we are just a few weeks into the New Year and many are making resolutions and setting intentions for 2021, I’d like to share a personal accountability practice that I have been doing for many years.

An accountability practice is something that keeps you focused and committed to your goals. Many successful individuals find that having a system to keep them accountable is a key part of their success.

I call my accountability system The 4 B’s, and they represent the four main areas of my life that I seek to maintain and improve to ensure that I keep evolving and becoming a better version of myself every day, one step at a time.

The 4 B’s Are:

  • Body: My physical health
  • Being: My spiritual health
  • Bonds: The health of my relationships
  • Business: My financial health and abundance in my work

Body

Practices to improve your Body can include eating a healthy diet, doing some form of exercise, getting a massage, doing some form of physical work, yoga, etc.

Being

Practices to nurture your Being can include meditation, yoga, prayer, taking a walk in nature, going to your church, synagogue, temple, etc., or any other practice or ritual that increases your spiritual connection.

Bonds

Activities to strengthen your Bonds may include calling an old friend on the phone, spending time with your family, attending a social event, doing something to help a loved one, co-worker, or friend, among many other actions.

Business

Actions to improve your Business may include creating new content, learning a new skill, taking a course, or anything you do that is working on your business or working in your business.

Here is a sample chart filled out for one week:

The simple chart below has a space for each B for each day of the week. I score myself as either a “0”, a “.5”, or a “1” for each category depending on whether I did something that day to cultivate each area.

At the end of the week, I add up each daily tally to get the weekly score. This has been a powerful practice that shows me exactly where I may be neglected an area of my life so that I can take measures to rectify it.

Below I’ve created a link where you can download the blank 4 B’s sheets to start your own practice.

Good luck and let me know how it goes for you!

Sales Pop! Podcast: How to Reach a Higher Value by Sharing Prosperity

I recently had a great conversation with John Golden on the Sales Pop! Podcast. We talked about how when defining our destination we should make sure that it has a higher value and how to reach a higher value by sharing prosperity.

Listen on the Sales Pop! Website

About the Sales Pop! Podcast

Interviews, panel discussions, and content from the world’s leading Sales, Marketing, Leadership, and Motivation Thought Leaders! Brought to you by Sales POP! and Pipeliner CRM – all hosted by John Golden.

About John Golden

John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist, he has conducted over 350 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP! online sales magazine and has a podcast channel on iTunes with over 287 audio interviews. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. In his spare time, John is an avid Martial Artist.


You can find more of my podcast appearances on the Media section of the site.

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Talking About My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston

In this recent podcast episode, I had a good discussion with Dr. Mark Goulston about my wakeup call after hitting rock bottom from alcoholism, my subsequent spiritual awakening, and how I integrated this new consciousness into my work and the lives of the clients and companies I work with.

Listen on Apple Podcasts 

Listen on the podcast’s website

You can find more of my podcast appearances on the Media section of the site.

About the My Wakeup Call Podcast

I’m Dr. Mark Goulston, and this is My Wakeup Call. Everybody has wakeup calls, but not everybody wakes up.

In this podcast, we speak to people who did. In fact, they not only woke up, but their wakeup call changed their life, and changed how they would spend the rest of their life. In every case, the wakeup call was not pleasant, sought-after, and usually shook people to the core of their being. But in every case, it made our guests more authentic, better at life, better in life, and better human beings.

I hope you will listen-in and become as inspired as I am from every episode. I also hope it will help you persevere if you are going through a wakeup call and haven’t yet gotten through the pain of it, or landed in your future as the better person you’re meant to be, with the better life that you’re meant to have.