III. Accountability for Results Requires Room for Judgment and Decision Making If you’re not allowed to use any judgment or discretion on job, if you’re told to follow rules no matter what, if no decision is up to you, then your boss can only hold you accountable for activities. You can be held accountable for doing what you’re told, but you can’t be held accountable for outcome. Judgment and innovation can never be fully described in a job description. When employees are expected to be resourceful in achievement of results, they are held accountable for capturing opportunities or ignoring them.

IV. Accountability is Neither Shared nor Conditional Accountability Agreements are individual, unique, and personal strategies. No two people at same level in an organization should have exact same accountabilities. Separating each person’s accountabilities can be challenging, but valuable clarity results from struggle to eliminate overlaps.

V. Accountability for Organization as a Whole Belongs to Everyone Every employee’s first accountability is for thinking about and acting on what is best for organization, even if doing so means putting aside one’s individual, functional, or departmental priority. The most successful organizations expect and allow every person to be of practical assistance in realizing organization’s goals.

VI. Accountability is Meaningless Without Consequences In Accountability Agreements, consequences need to be negotiated. Negotiated consequences that are personally significant to employee in question are an essential element of Accountability Agreements and are fundamental to forging a fair deal. This is a key step in forging an interdependent and mutually beneficial relationship with one’s employer.

Organizational accountability entirely subverts tendency to make excuses and shift blame. When employees make clear and specific commitments for their own work, entire organizations become aligned and achieve specific measurable results.

You may or may not have created a plan for marketing your opportunity. The two must haves to be successful are a large and growing opt in list and massive traffic to your website. In all those forums you probably learned several methods to boost your online presence, including:

1. Listing your ezine in ezine directories 2. Signing up for pay-per-click advertising 3. Exchanging links 4. Buying leads from a lead generator 5. Signing up with traffic generators, such as searchestate 6. Buying ezine advertising

You may have tried these and several more. But did you have a plan? Stone Evans, Home Biz Guy, in his free ebook, “30 Days To Success”, says ”Some of key marketing activities that you should perform on a regular basis are starting to show up once every week: write and article, submit your article, create links back to your site, network in forums... I strongly recommend that you keep these vital practices up for life of your business.”

“ You see, it is very unlikely that one BIG event is suddenly going to make you an Internet marketing success story and cause you to become rich overnight. In truth, it's all small things you do that add up over time and ultimately allow you to become successful in this or any business undertaking.”

Execute plan

Now that you have refocused on your goals, narrowed in on your product and built a marketing plan all that’s left is to execute that plan. Set aside time every day that you will spend on your plan. Write an article on Monday, submit it on Tuesday, exchange links on Wednesday and so on.

Ultimate Success

You had your reasons for deciding to start your own home based business. You must always keep your reasons in forefront of your mind. You must always be able to rely upon your own self and your dedication to success of your business.

Success is within your reach, if only you can stay focused on your goals. You must decide to reach for your goals, and then, you must have discipline necessary to reach them.