When you start your career, you are filled with enthusiasm. There is a spark within to work consistently towards achieving your goals. So much so that you seek help, ask questions, and do not shy away from learning more. Gradually, you find yourself climbing the ladder of success. However, when you are high up on that ladder, it can get scary and lead to self-doubt.
More success often means low accountability. That, however, does not imply poor responsibility. It only means that the goals start to become subjective. With time, your calendar is full of things you have to do versus what you should be doing. You end up finding yourself in places with hardly any value. There is a struggle to find time for actually meaningful things.
A long list of things to do coupled with decreased accountability adds to the fear of being incompetent. This makes you feel like you have plateaued in life. It is important to work on individual skills consistently to grow. As the quote said, ‘if you are not growing, you are dying’. You need increased accountability to get out of the endless loop of striving for success.
Everybody makes excuses for delays. But everybody fails to realize that this is a way of avoiding self-accountability.It is easy to stay in your comfort zone, but you can only grow as an individual when you venture out of it. For that, you need to hold yourself accountable and work towards success.