Accountability: Coaching Yourself

#LifeBoost ACTIVATE! with KEIVA JADE™ ~ Day 1

4 min readApr 21, 2024

HR: People! Love? Money. On Purpose

Today I care about my body on purpose. I have a definite major purpose in life, a burning desire, and so my body is to carry the physical strength, endurance, and attractiveness required to manifest it into reality.

I have a sharp mind, and sometimes, like yours, it’s even brilliant. I am keenly aware that I am capable of anything, especially derailing myself in implementation phase by overdosing on perfectionism. But failure is not an option for me here and now.

My purpose is heavily centered on leaving America a better place than I was born into, which for me means people use the power of their minds and are less beholden to limiting belief systems. For example, I used to believe it was up to our government to provide all the answers to our society’s questions and come up with every solution for everyone’s problems, until I worked in it.

The capstone of career-learning in leading HR is recognizing that “what we do all day long” is address a country’s unaddressed issues inside a company.

HR can change a Company.
Can a Company change a Country?

Mine can; the only question remaining is also an exclamation: Will it?!

It all starts in your mind. It starts with a thought. But your thoughts require exercise and training too.

Once you start moving your mind, you stop seeing the world quite the same.

You still accept science, but you trust your own instinct more. You know when you’re hungry and when you’re tired, and you eat and sleep to satisfy those needs and not others. You know that what you put in your body comes out of you in some form or fashion; it’s your choice.

You know the same is true about what fuels your mind. Mired in negativity (doubt, fear, and frustration), it can be hard to remember how powerful you are when you’re positively present. When you’re gorging on your life’s purpose, it becomes easier to recognize what is noise and how to never let it steal the peace from within you.

You have a renewed outlook on life, and as the opening of Christian D. Larson’s Your Forces and How to Use Them, referred to as The Optimist’s Creed, “You live in the faith that the whole world is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

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You recognize the work you need to do to attain your goal requires a certain type of mindset and body to carry you, so you do the necessary work to ensure it can and you will.

When you find your life’s purpose or are in pursuit of accomplishing your worthy goals, the first accountability coach you need to get is yourself. It is too personal and important to shirk or co-opt this responsibility. No one but you can truly account for your thinking and its resulting outcomes. Thinking is something to master.

It starts with your first thought when your alarm goes off (or when you rise naturally after 30+ days of Napoleon Hill Institute’s Self-Discipline Camp). Are you awakened with enthusiasm, apathy, or despair? More importantly, what do you do with it?

When you have a chief aim in life, the stakes are never higher. You come to an understanding with yourself that you’re willing to risk it all on purposeful faith that it works out as long as you do good work. You create. You give. You create more. You serve more. You feel it in each breath you take. And one day, on the exhale you’ll never forget, you begin to see it take form. . . the physical expression of your thought — materialized.

DAY 1 is acknowledging you are here reading this right now because (a) somewhere along the line you asked for a “sign” about what to do next, (b) you are a person with more to give and are willing to do the mind and body work for what you expect to receive from ‘life’ in return, or © both.

Here is your sign and message: All you have ever wanted from Life exists inside you; you hold the only key to unlock your purpose.

You know it doesn’t matter where you are today as long as you know where you will be tomorrow. Each day is the action plan for your life. Worthy of being strategic about it, you take your WHOLE self seriously.

Today, simply acknowledge you are accountable to yourself; admitting this is true is your first step on purpose. ☀️

~KEIVA JADE™