Through accountability from a wellness standpoint means that I am an open book to you. This does not mean that every relationship in our life is based on our accountability. Most of my relationships have superficial accountability that apply to one area or another. As the relationship becomes more meaningful and has a different impact on me in love or caring or sharing intimacy, accountability his defined much differently. I love the simplicity of the word accountable.
Like any decision we make, certain steps are going to be required to accomplish that decision. Very rarely does anything worthwhile happen through osmosis. The 12 steps of recovery are exactly that.
One of the most beautiful things about the plan of recovery are the promises that are made. They are made to give us hope. They are exclusively for those who decide to apply the plan of recovery to their life. I was so encouraged when I came into the program of Alcoholics Anonymous because I was told “that if I worked the plan of recovery as it was outlined, I could expect these things to occur.“ They were 100% correct. I hope you have found this to be true for you.
Stephen Covey taught me “that every major scientific breakthrough came as a result of a break with.” Based on these great men of wisdom and the things I learned in the plan of recovery it has become noticeably clear to me that I needed to cease doing what I was doing to become what I had desired to become.
When I was able to become honest with myself, I realized I tended to let other people make a lot of decisions about my life without actually taking very much responsibility for my own choices. I found myself believing that I knew better what everyone else should do with their lives and feeling responsible for their choices; then feeling accountable for their consequences without taking care of what I could for my own life.