Do You Sincerely Want To Increase Your Time Freedom?

Steven Droege
3 min readOct 29, 2020

I’m going to make you aware of one practice that will help you grow if you don’t ignore it…

I was sitting down to write today when I realized I have no idea what to write…

Have you been there?

Every day I wake up with a simple dream: To share valuable information with you, so you and I can become better versions of who we were yesterday.

I was wrestling with the topic of this story. Should it be leadership? Business? Wealth? Family? What it meant to me was that I didn’t have a clear direction.

That lack of a clear direction made me feel a bit torn and confused.

Then the sun disappeared in Hawaii, the clouds came out, the rain poured, and I felt like taking a 6-hour nap and giving in to the mind as it told me, “Your followers will be OK if you don’t write for one day.”

But I didn’t because something happened at that moment…

I heard a little voice in my head say, “They hold you accountable,” and everything changed that second.

I was able to sit down and start writing, even without a direction because these stories are not about me; they’re about you. You hold me accountable as a leader!

So I decided to write about accountability as a leader to document this vital lesson for you and your business.

But something still wasn’t right…

I still had to decide how to deliver this message of tough love because accountability involves looking at ourselves and admitting that we create our results in life (good or bad), no one else; it starts with being accountable for our own actions.

In the end, I decided to use this story to share this crucial lesson: Your business & life is not about you; it’s about the people who have a stake in you.

Framing the lesson in that way allows us to let the “stakeholders” in every part of our life hold us accountable for our results.

That means we can use accountability to get more of what we want from life. MORE time freedom, MORE wealth, MORE fulfillment, MORE contribution, MORE… MORE… MORE…

In the end, we can increase our quality of life while increasing our success.

As a result of holding myself accountable to other people, I could start thinking of others before myself, serve my community, serve my country, and live with a sense of purpose every day.

I cherish this lesson because I can teach it to my children, and I can raise generations of leaders who live to serve people.

Here’s your takeaway from this story: You and I are accountable to people because (like it or not) we have people in our lives that have a stake in us.

So what this means for your life & business is that you need to allow others to hold you accountable for your actions and admit to yourself that you create your successes and failures, nobody else. You owe it to your stakeholders to take accountability.

Your next step is to get my FREE 5-step program, “Lead Your Life.

You will create a leadership movement in your company, increase your time freedom, grow your business (without needing to be there), and create an environment where you hold people (and people hold you) to a higher standard.

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