Without Accountability, You Can’t Build Credibility

Wonderful Aling Aling Waterfall among lush greenery of Sambangan mountainous area on Bali Island
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Without accountability, without taking responsibility for your life, you can’t build a great life. Without taking responsibility for your life, you can’t move forward in your life. Don’t fear accountability. Don’t let it stop you from living your life. Don’t let it stop you from taking risks.

To grow, you must take risks. According to Naval Ravikant, “Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. … Clear accountability is important. Without accountability, you don’t have incentives. Without accountability, you can’t build credibility. But you take risks. You risk failure. You risk humiliation. You risk failure under your own name.” If you want to be successful, you must embrace risks.

You risk failure under your own name. You risk embarrassment under your own name. You risk take responsibility under your own name. Don’t risk anything under another person’s name. Risk everything under your own name. Because it is not about them. It is about you. It is about your growth, your success, your life. Embrace risks and move forward under your own name.

8 Quotes To Accept Your Imperfections

Woman with brush painting picture with acrylic paints
Photo by Roman Koval

No one is perfect. If you want to see a perfect picture, you must paint your own picture. Instead of trying to be perfect, why not ask yourself this question: How can I improve myself?

You can’t perfect anything, but you can become something. If you want to live a better life, you must focus on becoming, not perfecting.

You can start with theses quotes.

“A finished person is boring person.”– Anna Quindlen

“I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you…”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A warm heart overcomes many faults.”– Dan Rockwell

“If you’re imperfect, at least be caring.”- Dan Rockwell

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of being yourself.”- Anna Quindlen

“When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.”- Sharon Salzberg

“Nothing is perfect. Focus on becoming you, not on perfecting you.”

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”- e.e. Cummings