
Be Your Own Cheerleader
Accountability is not a tool that you use to shame yourself.
Accountability is an active form of mindfulness that you can use to honour the commitments you make to yourself (and potentially others).
I use accountability as a tool to follow through on the promises I make to myself. Read that again if you need, because your capacity to follow through is an incredibly powerful resource.
I use accountability techniques to refine how I map out the small actionable steps to achieve my goals and associated responsibilities. Mapping my accountability is especially useful to motivate me when I’m starting something new and feel like I’m in the weeds, struggling to push through or feeling overwhelmed.
The use of accountability map can instill a positive sense of ownership of what you want (without guilt or shame if you don’t immediately achieve). I regularly refer my clinical clients to use accountability maps because you can readily track the small successes you’ve made (and easily dismissed).
Acknowledging those small wins that generate feel-good hormones and puts credits of hope into your happiness account. This is what can significantly impact your personal growth in a positive way — small hits of dopamine.
Why do I love accountability mapping so much? Because the positive action of mapping provides you with conscious permission to become your own cheerleader.
When you map where in your life you’ve been accountable, you remain present rather than triggered. This is a neurological space in your mind, whereby you can allow your imagination to unfold and envisage seeing more success. It is these visions that kick start motivation to continue. This part of your psyche is your inner cheerleader!
Here are four reasons why your ‘inner cheerleader’ could use accountability as a crucial tool in achieving your goals.
Increased Focus
When you can hold yourself accountable (not is a space of shame or guilt), your cheerleader self can revisit your clear goals and objectives. Regularly revisiting and refreshing your vision of what you want to achieve enables you to remain focused.
This focus boosts your capacity to concentrate on the small actionable steps which will result in what’s truly important in relation to achieving your goal.
Improved Productivity
When your cheerleader tracks your progress, you can identify potential inefficiencies and areas for improvement. Reflection by your cheerleader isn’t a bad thing. Tracking your performance supports you to identify any arising gaps. This will keep you honest with yourself in terms of progress or procrastination.
In my experience when I track my personal progress, I find myself leaning into more efficient use of my time and resources, as well as improving new techniques. My inner cheerleader naturally streamlines processes and systems to ensure I am repeatedly hitting the targets and then expanding to the next goal.
Enhanced Self-Discipline
Working with your inner cheerleader boosts your accountability capacity through encouragement whilst do-ing the action. Actively utilise that positive internal dialogue from your internal cheerleader to boost your self-discipline and drive a hunger for more consistent effort and dedication to your goals.
The more positive dialogue you have inside your everyday mind, the more you will crave this subtle serotonin boost and crave more success. You will naturally crave how good it feels after you have completed the small actionable task, rather than focussing on how you feel before the event.
Boosted Confidence
Allow your inner cheerleader to recognise and celebrate everything and all achievements – no matter how small. Cheering all aspects of your beautiful life naturally builds your self-esteem. Your self esteem and belief in self builds the foundations of your confidence in your abilities.
Conclusion
I don’t know about you, but I call upon my inner cheerleader for every single Park Run I participate in. I call upon her when I’m vacuuming or even doing the dishes. That positive part of my psyche is always around cheering me on, no matter what I’m trying to achieve.
Give your inner cheerleader a shout out today and allow yourself to be mindful of how you feel after you complete the task.

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About Karen
Change Facilitator
Karen Humphries is an advanced Kinesiology Practitioner, Wellbeing Coach, Hypnotherapist (including psychotherapy), Resource Therapist (Ego State), Intuitive Meditation Facilitator, and trainee Counselor (Mental Health).
Karen is a published author of This Is My Roar.
She is a self-confessed laughaholic. She loves being of service to the world with her humorous and positive approach to life, encouraging people to ‘choose to change and bloom from within.’