Taking Accountability For Your Magical Life

On your journey to creating your magical life, you have responsibilities and things you need to take care of. Doctor's appointments, food choices, following up on appointments and test results, caring for your home, you name it.  If you put the blame or responsibility on others when something doesn't get done, you're giving away the power you have to run your own life.

If you don't look after yourself, no one is going to do it for you. It's time to take accountability and ownership and build the life you deserve!

Transcript

Magic Barclay: 0:42

Welcome back to a Magical Life. I'm your host, magic Barclay, and today we're following on from our last chat, which was about organization. Today we're talking about accountability. I just wanna pose one question to you dear listeners, and that is who's responsible for you now? It seems like an obvious answer. We're all going to say that we're responsible for ourselves, but how many times do we give away that accountability, that responsibility to other people? I have many clients who have come to me after being, I guess, pass to and fro, or seeking different people in the medical industry, and one thing they all have in common. Is that they didn't take accountability for their own health. And in fact, many people come to me and to my people at Holistic Natural Health Australia and say, help us heal. But in the way that they're saying it, they. Handing their own accountability over to us. So something we do in our programs is certainly when I'm talking to someone, the first thing I say to them is, I am teaching you about your body. I am teaching you about your health. You are the one that's responsible to carry out whatever it is that we discuss. You are the one that's responsible to follow it up. You are the one that's responsible to book your appointments with me. I won't chase you for an appointment. And the reason I lay these ground rules is because these clients need to take accountability. Now, I also let them know that at the end of our programs, hopefully I've taught them enough that they can continue on, and I'm always here as a support. As do my team, but we are not the ones living in your body. We are not the ones experiencing things day to day. We are not the ones having emotional reactions to things that happen in our lives. You are, it's your body. Now, this is kind of what drives me mad about the medical industry sometimes. When I say drives me mad, it's a bug bear. You have to beg for your test results. Beg for copies to be printed out. In many cases, not in all, but in many. That's your blood that was tested, that's your whatever it was that was tested. They're your hormones. Why don't you automatically get given results without having to ask for them? Slightly off topic, but also slightly not because you are accountable to your body. It is up to you to make sure you have these results on hand. It is up to you to make sure that if you're doctor shopping, that the next doctor has a complete list of what it is that you are taking and. What you're taking it for so that there's no adverse interactions of medications or supplements or whatever it is. Same if you go to a naturopath and then you go to a holistic practitioner. You need to have a list because you need to take accountability. At the end of the day. These people, me, my team, we do not live in your body. You do Now, I've taught my kids this from a young age that they need to be accountable for themselves. My boys now live in a different house on our property. It is up to them to bring their washing over to get done at my house. I'm not bringing it over. They are, it's their washing. Will it bother me if it doesn't get washed? No. But it's up to them. So we need to teach our kids from a young age to be accountable for themselves. They need to take personal accountability of their belongings. This means their room needs to be tidied if they stand on a doll or a Lego or whatever, and break it because it was on the floor. Take accountability. Say something to them like, well, that's terribly sad, that's broken, and now it needs to go into bin. But was it in a place that you didn't stand on it? Was it a way where it's supposed to be after you finished playing with it? Take personal accountability with books. A toddler rips out a page out of their book. Oh, now the story's gone. You didn't look after it. They need to learn this and they need to learn it from a young age, and we need to make sure that we follow through with it throughout our lives. And this is really important. You wanna be on a diet for your health, a whole foods diet. You need to take personal accountability. You need to make sure that the shopping is done so that the whole foods are there for you. You didn't have a random cheat day because you hadn't stocked up on the foods. Make sure you do it. And many people don't take accountability these days for their own actions, for their own words, for their own thoughts, even. People rely on government to tell them what to do, what to say, what to think on the tv, what to do, what to say, what to think. On influences, what to buy, what to wear, where to go, where's your personal accountability. It's really up to us to put ourselves first, not to be. Egotistical or egocentric or you know, the world revolves around me. No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is if you don't look after yourself, no one else is going to do it for you. And this is really, really, really important. I don't know how many reallys I can actually put in there, but it is extremely important and it's something that many of us sadly are lacking until it's nearly too late. I. My boys play lap, live action, role play, and in their war band, which is the group that they run around with. The standing rule number one is take personal accountability. Now, this means that your weapons, your armor, your soft kit, whatever it is that you are using must be in good condition. And guess what? If it's not, it's on you. It's not on anyone else, it's on you. And if that means you cannot fight that night at the game because your gear isn't up to snuff, that is on you. So an example of personal accountability. When we're at work, sometimes tasks need to be done in the office instead of just keeping. A mental list of all the things that you have to do. Write yourself a list, or even better, if you're using a CRM or a diary system or anything like that, set yourself a reminder or a task to do it. Take personal accountability. It is not up to anyone else in the office to remind you what you need to get done. It's completely on you. If it means that you have to do work on a property or. Yard work at your own home. Make sure that you schedule that. And we spoke about organization last month. This flows on with accountability. If it doesn't get done, take accountability. Make sure that you are organized to do this. Make your life easier so that this can happen. There's many, many things in our life that we need to take accountability for, and this also includes our behavior. If you are wrong, take accountability and admit it. Encourage others around you to do the same. Take accountability for their words, their actions, and the effect that has on other people. So that's how accountability works. Now, how do we make this easier on ourselves? Like I said, write lists. Set yourself tasks, put things in your diary. Take accountability if it doesn't get done. Doesn't mean beat yourself up, that it doesn't get done. It just means acknowledge what happened, what might've gotten in a way reschedule and make sure it gets done. Now, I hope today's little chat has helped in some way to help you take accountability, and it really is important. We take personal accountability'cause it is key to our health and to our lifestyle success. If you want something, you have to work for it. If you wanna succeed, you have to put the effort in. If you wanna enjoy things, you have to set yourself up for the enjoyment. That was our accountability podcast episode. As always, please we welcome your comments on Facebook at a Magical Life podcast or message the whole team at Holistic Natural Health Australia. We're on Instagram at Holistic Natural Health. Jump onto our website. Take accountability for your health book, your root cause analysis. Call now. It is complimentary and it is worldwide. For now, please do like, subscribe, review and share this episode and take accountability for doing so. Go forth and create your magical life.