A man describes his two-year gambling addiction starting in 2007 and how accountability structures saved his marriage and business. He built daily transparency into small community groups, arguing that embedded accountability is essential for staying honest and keeping families intact.
And it is not. This particular area will change your life. Here's a true story, and this is going to have a lot of transparency around it, but I can go back to 2007. So it's 12 years ago. I struggled, really struggled with an addiction in my life. At the time, I was addicted to gambling, and that was a very difficult season. Over the course of about 2 years, I struggled with this. It began to dominate a lot of things around my personal life and in business. And One of the tools that I used in my own life to actually get healthy was by creating enormous amounts of accountability. Okay. So yes, this is important. This is important. The reason why I've been married for 20 years now is because I created a lot of accountability in that area. The reason why I still have 4 beautiful kids and I'm able to father them in the same house as my wife is because I created accountability. And so you cannot have too much accountability in your life. If you're a guy, you should be in some sort of small group with other men where there is additional accountability, not just around your recruiting efforts. If you're a female, same thing, you really should. We should all be living in some sort of a community where we live authentically, transparently, with honesty, and we give other people permission to speak into our lives.
