Accountability is dealing with the truth of every decision you make. You’re actually never more accountable than when you change your budget. (Go ahead, read that sentence again, it’s important.) If you’ve overspent on eating out and need to take that money from a different priority, like vacation, that’s accountability. You are living the reality of what it means to spend more than you’d planned: you’re now that much farther from your vacation goal. It’s not a failure, but a reprioritization.
