WHY I LOVE MONDAYS!
Most people dread Mondays. Not me. I am excited about Monday mornings and can’t wait for Monday to arrive each week! Is it because I can’t wait to dive into my work? Not really. Is it because I love being productive? Kind of, but that’s not what gets me the most excited to jump out of bed at 7am.
Every Monday AM for well over a year I meet up with my business accountability partners for 1 hour on Monday mornings. We are 4 women who come from different backgrounds, different industries, and one of our team members has lived in Europe for more than a decade! Some members of our group have little children, some have adult children, some are single or have multiple fur babies. Some of us have vast business experience, and others some are still in startup stages. An attorney, A Dermatology PA, A Teacher, and a Marketing expert who all live 1000s of miles away from each other. Before 2020 none of us knew the other ones existed.
What do we all have in common? In 2020, we each committed to change ourselves, and our respective businesses, and we all experimented with a new type of online business model that was successful almost immediately for each one of us. Yup. We all expanded into a new world of businesses that reached multi 5 figures or 6 figures within a matter of months for each one of us. From that point forward we had a bond. “Season 4” is the nickname we go by and we are committed to helping each other get to the next level with our business goals AND our personal goals.
So, you might wonder what specifically I love about my Mondays and my precious 60 minutes with my accountability partners?
They call me out on my crap. They tell me when I am getting in my own way of my goals and force me to commit to get back on track.
We get to celebrate a MAJOR win almost every week by someone in the group. It could be a new 5-6 figure business deal. It could be a personal milestone achieved (ie move across country, building a new home, real estate transactions, major birthdays, family and friend vacations, etc)
We are there to support each other during unsettled times (divorce/break ups, failed business ventures, family conflicts, etc) and we are there to help pick each other up and dust each other off.
My Monday “ladies” push me. They laugh with me. They cry (or yell) with me. They listen to my new hair brain ideas, heck they even fly around the world to come hang out with me when I was living in Prague for 5 months while supporting my husbands business goals. What started almost 2 years ago as “season 4” group of unexpected amateur online marketing business entrepreneurs has now grown to real friendships and the reason that I will forever look forward to my Mondays AMs.
If you are looking for connection and to find your own accountability tribe and you aren’t sure where to start, it might make sense for you to invest in yourself. Here are some things you might want to consider:
Join some groups of likeminded people. This can be business, career, social, religious, philanthropic, etc. You might be able to find some volunteer opportunities, or you might have to pay to join some groups. If a small investment can place you in a community of people who are likeminded and share similar values, it can be well worth the expense. Remember that these groups can be physically near you or, like my team, can be located anywhere in the world!
Invest in a life coach who understands you and your goals. Having a trusted guide helping you navigate tough decisions or complicated life circumstances and who can help you align with the right tribe for you can be worth its weight in gold.
Make sure to commit to regular meeting times with your coach or your accountability partners and do your best not to miss or reschedule meet ups. You owe it to yourself and your partners to “show up” - the first step to making progress!
Stay open minded. Your tribe might be where you least expect it. As a Dermatology PA, entrepreneur and life coach, I didn’t think an attorney, teacher, and marketing expert would understand me and my “issues” . It didn’t take long for me to realize that we had more in common than we all realized and the strengths of one of us balances out the weakness of another. Be careful that your accountability partners are not so much like you that you don’t get any different perspectives. Some commonality is good but be sure to mix it up too! Look for different professions, different ages, different political views, etc. Look for people with some common ground but who approach issues differently. Soak up the different perspectives and who knows, you might just learn something new!
I wouldn’t be where I am today without my accountability group, my coach, and my professional support network and resources. The right combo of the above has been instrumental for me to make the impossible possible and now I can look forward to that 7am alarm on Monday AMs!