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Today, Chris Brogan tweeted about the reaction to freeze up in the face of a full plate of things to do.
I’m sure we can all relate to this!
My suggestion to Chris was to put himself out there for public scrutiny — announce what task he has to do, and then report back whether he does it or not. Over time, he can develop a reputation as someone who gets things done, or not.
Few of us can claim the Twitter following Chris has, but even if you only have a few followers out there, the thought that someone might be watching and paying attention can be enough motivation to get yourself in gear and tackle that task.
This is especially useful if the resulting task can be shared with your online audience — finishing a blog post, updating a design, writing code, and so on.
I’d love to be your Twitter accountability partner — follow me by clicking here!
Yeah “putting yourself out there” is a good plan. Another one is a system I kind of invented on the Productivity podcast a year ago. We call it the Productivity Buddy system. Every Monday morning at 10am my productivity buddy and I have a scheduled phone call about how our weekly GTD review is going. And during the week, if I feel stuck, I can call him and spend ten minutes on the phone with him talking me down off the roof. If it works for AA, it can work for productivity too I figured.
http://productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/09/08/the-productivity-show-027-introducing-the-productivity-buddy-system/
Comment by Cameron Reilly — October 7, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
It’s a great method. I’ve done that before, where I’ve used a group for accountability. In this case, I did something opposite of what I normally would do. I went to bed. Now, I’m going to work my face off today to get back on track.
Normally, I just plow through.
Comment by Chris Brogan... — October 8, 2007 @ 3:44 am
I could seriously use a Twitter accountability partner. I’ve given so much useful info and help to people on and behind the scenes but it’s strange how certain “friends” have left me high and dry on some major deals because they didn’t manage their time properly and had to bow out.
So now I’m working on something major but alone and it’s taking all my strength and focus (adding that I’m in a world class theater production every sunday that’s played the white house 8 times), so today I’m admitting I’m a little bit human sometimes.
Hope your 101s going well…
Sam
Comment by Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog — November 14, 2007 @ 2:50 pm