Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening,
everybody, and welcome to today's episode of
the Never Peak Project Podcast. I'm your California
Coastside Coach, Coach Ranger, coming at you
from the Opportunity Center of the Coastside
here in downtown Half Moon Bay. And today's going
to be a little bit of a speed episode as we talk
a little bit about accountability and the five
-step process that I use to hold myself accountable,
especially going from breakdowns to get to a...
breakthrough or from failures to turn that into
feedback. It's a five -step process that I came
up with my coach a few years ago. And even if
I don't necessarily use it frame by frame, Just
having this awareness and knowledge has been
insanely impactful for me, my business, and relationships,
personal life endeavors, everything in between.
So just to really jump into it, the 5 A's is
a framework that I use when something doesn't
go my way. After an event that doesn't go well
happens, after I get feedback that I don't particularly
enjoy, it really just helps me. Remember what
it is that I'm really doing and why I'm doing
it to begin with. I do personally believe that
all feedback, regardless of if it's negative
or positive, it's just information. And anything
else that you tell yourself about it is a story
that you are making up. If you fail a test, I
failed the test. And then if you add those things
like I'm so stupid or ignorant or dumb or whatever,
that is the story. That doesn't help you with
anything. That's something that I struggle with
a lot. After my very first pesticides class,
we ran an hour late. And there's tech issues
and translation issues and this and that. I've
never really worked with a translator before,
so that was something I had to get used to. So
that was wild. But I just kind of walked through
this five -step process. And that process is,
number one, awareness. And that very first step
is just awareness, being aware that what you're
doing is good, right? Like remembering, hey,
like I'm trying here. Like there is that possibility
that things may not go my way and that there
is something to learn from this, like having
a positive awareness of the situation. The second
step is acceptance, right? Like the thing didn't
go my way and I got to just accept that. No story,
no fluff. Just just just data. No shame. Right.
So the third step after acceptance is agency.
Right. Is I get to choose how I respond. Right.
Like I get to decide what happens next. It's
kind of that whole idea of like extreme accountability,
like everything that happens in my life is for
me, by me, because of me. Therefore, how do we
make this the most effective as possible? Like
I have the most choice in my life. The fourth
one is action, is, okay, I have awareness, I
have acceptance, I have agency. Now, what am
I going to actually do about it? What are we
going to create from this, right? And then the
next one is just straight up accountability,
right? Like, how am I going to hold myself accountable?
How am I going to make sure that these lessons
and these learnings that I've gained from this
experience are not... wasted. So those are the
five A's, awareness, acceptance, agency, action,
and accountability. And really the whole thing
can just be like lumped up in this one statement
of life happens. You get to decide what happens
next. That is the... caring lesson for today
in this under five minute episode. So thank you
so much for listening to today's episode. I really
hope that this framework helps you out, whether
you are using it in your job, your relationship,
your business. Let me know if you find this helpful
or ways that you've used this. And if you're
curious about learning more and want to see how
this could apply to a specific situation in your
life. Feel free to book one of the free 15 -minute
consultations down my link in the Calendly in
the show notes. You can just find a 15 -minute
spot that works for you. I will call you and
we can talk about the framework and how it applies
to your life. But as always, thank you so much
for listening. I'm your California Coastside
Coach, Ranger at Within Range Coaching. Remember
that the best is yet to come as long as you make
the decision every single day to never settle,
never quit, and never peak. i'll see you guys
in the next one bye