Happy New Year! 🥳

Welcome to our first-ever Growth Hack, timed perfectly for the start of 2025. We will discuss goals and personal accountability. Before we start, what is a "Growth Hack" defined by Strive Tribe?

Growth hacks are simple, creative strategies to accelerate self-improvement. They focus on maximizing results with minimal effort, like habit stacking, time-blocking, or leveraging accountability partners to fast-track success.

We deliver small, free iterative hacks that will take no more than 5 minutes to read that you can go away and implement in your life to help you grow, varying from personal development frameworks like this entry to business growth hacks such as how you can use ChatGPT more effectively as a part of your day-to-day workflow.

What is personal accountability?

Personal accountability is taking ownership of your actions, choices, and goals. It’s about staying responsible for your progress through self-discipline, reflection, and consistent effort. The American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) did a study on accountability and found that you have a 65% chance of completing a goal if you commit to someone. And if you have a specific accountability appointment with a person you’ve committed, you will increase your chance of success by up to 95%.

By joining the Strive Tribe community, you will be surrounded by like-minded people who will become your accountability partners as they strive to achieve their own goals. With "check-ins" we are aiming to give you your accountability appointment - increasing your chances of achieving the goals you are setting for 2025.

Building a Public Accountability Profile

We are HUGE fans of the Notion tool for personal development—it's completely free and allows you to manage your life outside of journaling. Pen and paper have their place, but bringing AI close to your personal development is a growth hack in itself, which Notion allows you to do. We will talk about both of these topics in the future.

You need to share your goals publicly. That's why we have built a free notion template that allows you to build your own mini-website or a Public Accountability Profile.

All you have to get your own mini-website is:

1. Go to our template page here

2. Click the "Duplicate" button in the top right of the page, it looks like this:

   

3. Create an account and follow the steps mentioned in the template

4. Once you’re happy with your page you can remove all of the "callouts" to clean your page up

5. Click "share" on your page and publish it to the internet

You now have a public accountability profile live on the internet! We will release more articles in the future that will help to extend this page in public and as well as to manage more of your personal development/growth hacking privately.

As you get to use Notion - you will start to see many of these use cases. It is our tool of choice for growth hacking and it has a great mobile app that you can download so that you can always manage your goals on the move. As you update your goals, they will be automatically updated on your website. You can share this with your friends or family, add it to your Instagram page as a link (if you like posting about your progress), or you can turn to the Strive Tribe community - where you will find like-minded people to support you achieve your goals

This is a pre-requisite to joining the Strive Tribe community, every member of the community will have a page like this and it will be the foundation for how we interact, work, and grow together. Don't just set goals mentally, write them down and find like-minded people to help make you accountable.

"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them"

Jim Rohn (1930–2009) was a renowned motivational speaker, author, and business philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most influential personal development experts of the 20th century