BANZA August 2016 | Page 99

HEALTH that you could buy an extra cover-up for summer, and who really needs a summer body in winter anyway? When discussing accountability partners in the realm of business, Linda Galindo, author of The 85% Solution: How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success (Jossey-Bass, 2009), states: “Working with a partner prevents the ready-fire-aim approach that a lot of entrepreneurs use.” Linda’s words can be directly translated into our approach to ‘lifestyle changes’ in which we often go on crash diets or train excessively once or twice only to give up almost immediately because it hasn’t been thought through, and we don’t have a definite plan that someone is holding us to. In order to avoid this and to make the changes more about ‘lifestyle’ and less about a ‘summer body’, the best approach is to have a partner in crime - someone to go through it and support you. It is important, however, to use your accountability partner in the right way and to make sure you are motivating each other to stick to your goals, all the while being fully accountable to them. Below are the top 4 ways to have a solid accountability partnership - and also why they are so great!