Shane Yadao explains accountability as being able to explain your actions to people you respect, especially your kids. He asks himself what he'd want others to do, then does it. The conversation covers family honor and deliberately putting yourself in situations that demand you show up.
So I think about how do I stay accountable to others. I think of others as being people that are looking to us as an example. I think of my kids as probably the first example. And how do I stay accountable to them? You know, I think, I wanna say it's pretty easy, you know, but I know this might not be something that comes very easily to a lot of people or comes naturally to a lot of people. But to me, I look at like, What kind of, what do I want them to do? You know, what would I want them to do? So it's so easy to be accountable to somebody else, accountable to my kids. And when I think of that again, just accountability, I think of explaining my answers, right? I believe that's what accountability is, is when I can explain my actions, not my answers, but when I can explain my actions. And so to explain an action that I wouldn't have to justify in a way that, you know, it just sounds just like an excuse or justification, but explaining my answers that would really, you know, put my answers or put my actions in a good light, you know, that's what I would want my kids to be able to say or do with somebody else, right? That when they're explaining their actions, it's because of something great. It's because of something, I don't know, noble, I'll call it. Maybe it might sound kind of cheesy, but it is. It's because it's something great, it's something noble, it's something that other people would, you know, would find value in, I guess, or would add value to them. So, you know, for me, when I think about that, it's just when I'm doing things I think about, okay, what would I want somebody else to do? You know, what would I want them to do? And if I'm not doing something that I would want them to do, then let's not do that. You know, and so it holds me accountable, you know, I guess, to these people in that way. And I don't know if that makes sense or not, but.
Yeah, that was really great. I think for me, how do I stay accountable to others is I set myself up to stay accountable to others. I think one thing that's a value of ours in our family is just honor. And, When you set that as a value, right? Like how Shane said, our children is a huge value of ours and we just wanna honor those relationships, honor the relationships that have gone before us. That I think really helps me stay accountable to others. You know, I put myself in those environments that there's an accountability. I set myself up, yeah, to stay accountable.
That's, yeah, that's what I was gonna, yeah. So I wanna change my answer now. No, no, but that's it. But yeah, I think, yeah, how do I hold myself accountable to others? I think that's, you know, that can be both ways. Right, somebody that you admire and respect, how you, right, that's, that's, um, when you, oh my gosh, hold yourself accountable to that person, it's easy to set the example and hold yourself accountable to people that are following you, right?
