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I'm responding to a post from Linked In ..

Too many of you aren’t being accountable - you prefer to blame your family, employees, society, or someone random instead of yourself. It’s your biggest weakness and the thing that’s holding you back from happiness. When you learn to blame yourself blindly, you learn how to be happy. Tag the most accountable person you know!

Accountability is the defacto excuse used by successful people on why unsuccessful people are unsuccessful. Esp, when it comes to happiness.

Here,s the problem w that argument. Unsuccessful people aren't unhappy. And, on the flip side .. successful people are not happy either.

But, focusing on unsuccessful people for a moment .. Unsuccessful people are unable to leverage their resources the way successful people can. For an unsuccessful people to invest their time into a pet project and grow it, there has to be a reward waiting. Everything that is done on the project must produce a positive reward. A dopamine kick.

No matter how small the move is .. it must have an immediate reward attached to it. Then, when that project is published, can the proceeds be rolled into the next project and so on.

This is what makes an unsuccessful person successful. Slow, steady, consistent effort toward an overall goal.

Those interest baring investments you made by betting on 1000s of different things. Yes, your skills and lucky helped you to win. Even poker players are proud of you. But, unsuccessful people can't play poker. Nor can they gamble w their rent. No, they are on a fixed income and have a fixed monthly nutt they have to make.

That's accountability