Jason Redman’s Monday Muster to start your week off right & crush those goals!
It’s been 3 years since we’ve talked about the hard truth: YOU are the problem, but YOU are also the solution. This week, we’re diving deeper into what personal accountability actually looks like and how to develop the self-leadership skills that separate victors from victims.
The Real Talk on Personal Accountability
Look, I’ve been coaching high-performers for years now, and I can tell you the biggest difference between people who achieve their goals and those who don’t comes down to one thing: personal accountability.
Most people want to point fingers. They want to blame their boss, their circumstances, their past, their family situation. But here’s what I learned lying in that hospital bed with half my face blown off: the moment you start pointing fingers outward is the moment you give away your power.
Personal accountability means owning everything in your world. Not just the good stuff. Everything. The failures, the setbacks, the mistakes, the poor decisions. When you own it all, you get the power to change it all.
Self-Leadership: The Foundation of Everything
You want to know what self-leadership really is? It’s the ability to lead yourself when nobody’s watching. When you don’t feel like it. When it’s hard. When would it be easier to quit or make excuses?
In the SEAL Teams, we had a saying: “The only easy day was yesterday.” That applies to self-leadership too. Every single day you wake up, you have to choose to lead yourself toward your goals or let yourself drift toward mediocrity.
Self-leadership shows up in the small moments:
- Getting up when your alarm goes off instead of hitting snooze
- Doing the workout when you’re tired
- Having the difficult conversation instead of avoiding it
- Sticking to your standards when nobody would know if you didn’t
These aren’t glamorous moments. Nobody’s going to give you a medal for doing what you said you were going to do. But this is where real leaders are made.
Own Your Failures – That’s Where Growth Lives
I see too many people trying to soften their failures. They say things like “it didn’t work out”, or “things happened,” or “mistakes were made.”
Stop it.
Say “I failed.” Say “I made a mistake.” Say “I screwed up.”
When I got shot in Iraq, I could have blamed a lot of things. Bad intel. Enemy tactics. Poor positioning. Instead, I looked at what I could have done differently. What I could control. What I could learn.
That’s the mindset that turns failure into fuel. You can’t fix what you won’t own. You can’t improve what you won’t acknowledge. Your failures are not your identity – they’re your education.
The Motivation to Change: Stop Waiting for Permission
Here’s something nobody talks about: most people are waiting for permission to change their lives. They’re waiting for the right time, the right opportunity, the right feeling.
Motivation isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you create through action. You don’t wait to feel motivated – you act, and motivation follows.
I’ve started up three new businesses in the last year. You think I felt motivated every day? You think I felt ready? Hell no. But I took action anyway because that’s what leaders do. They move forward even when they don’t have all the answers.
The motivation to change comes from taking responsibility for your current situation and deciding you’re not going to accept it anymore.
The 5Ps: Your Daily Accountability System
You’ve heard me talk about the Rule of 5Ps before:
- Physical: What are you doing to strengthen your body?
- Personal: How are you growing mentally, emotionally, spiritually?
- Professional: What actions are moving your career forward?
- Profit: How are you being intentional with your money?
- Protection: What are you doing to protect yourself and your family?
This system works because it forces daily accountability. At the end of every day, you should be able to point to specific actions in each area. If you can’t, you’re the problem. But remember – you’re also the solution.
Get Off the X: Your Choice, Your Power
Every morning when you wake up, you’re standing on the X. That’s the place where excuses live. Where victimhood thrives. Where mediocrity feels comfortable.
Getting Off the X means choosing to take action even when you don’t feel like it. Even when it’s hard. Even when you’d rather stay comfortable.
The X is seductive. It tells you that your problems are someone else’s fault. That you can’t change your situation. That you’re stuck. That’s all lies.
You have more power than you realize. You have more choices than you think. You have more control than you’ve been led to believe.
But you have to choose to use that power. You have to choose to make those choices. You have to choose to take control.
Your Mission This Week
Here’s what I want you to do this week:
Day 1: Write down the three biggest areas where you’ve been playing victim. Own them completely. No excuses, no explanations, just ownership.
Day 2-7: Execute your 5Ps daily. Track them. At the end of each day, write down specifically what you accomplished in each area.
Week End: Review your week. Where did you show self-leadership? Where did you fall short? What are you going to do differently next week?
This isn’t about perfection. This is about progress. This is about taking responsibility for your outcomes and choosing to be the solution to your problems.
Remember: You are not broken. You are not stuck. You are not a victim of your circumstances.
You’re a leader who’s been given the greatest gift in the world – choice.
The question isn’t whether you can change your life. The question is whether you will choose to change your life.
Get off the X and choose to Overcome.
Ready to develop unshakeable personal accountability and self-leadership? Join our Overcome Army group coaching program, where we help high-performers take complete ownership of their results. No excuses, no victims – just victors who choose to lead themselves to success.
What’s your biggest personal accountability challenge? Drop a comment below or reply with an email, and let’s tackle it together.
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