The Importance of Accountability

/ Victor Ojei

What is accountability?

Accountability means taking responsibility for one’s own actions and decisions. It involves being honest first to one’s self and others, owning up to mistakes, and making sure to fix them when needed. It’s about being reliable and trustworthy in one’s commitments, actions, and reactions.

Lack of accountability is at the center of most individual’s behavior. Most individuals only see the wrong in others, and non in themselves, at least not how their actions affects or influences others.

Why is Accountability of Importance?

  1. Helps Builds Trust: taking responsibility for one’s owe actions, helps build trust. One who is accountable is reliable.
  2. Improves Relationships: Accountability strengthens personal and professional connections.
  3. Encourages Growth: Owning up to one’s own mistakes helps one learn and grow.
  4. Helps Promotes Success: Being accountable for one’s own actions and results ensures one stay on track toward one’s own goals.

Accountability makes one break from the weak, and self sabotage dependency on the blame game. It’s an endless loop with no positive result. A lot of personal growth and development comes with accountability.

Accountability is about taking ownership of one’s own actions. This helps build trust, improves relationships, and drives personal and professional success. This is an essential trait everyone should have. Start practicing this by owning up to the consequences of your own actions, being honest, reliable, and open to learning.

©️ 2025 Victor E. Ojei.

25 thoughts on “The Importance of Accountability”

  3. Sadly not yet. I’m in the middle of my commission painting of the Virgin Mary and haven’t had much time to research it. But I am still thinking on it. If you have any new advice it is welcome😏🙌🏻

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  7. Reading this felt like holding up a mirror that doesn’t lie—and trust me, most mirrors these days are polite. Accountability is like brushing your teeth. Not fun, not flashy, but skip it for a few days and things start to stink—inside and out.

    You explained it so well. Taking responsibility feels heavy at first, but it’s the only weight that makes us stronger. Blaming others is like throwing our trash over the fence and then wondering why the garden doesn’t grow.

    Thanks for writing this. It reminded me that the real grown-ups are not the ones with perfect answers—they’re the ones who can say, “Yep, that was me. I’ll fix it.”

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