Originally Posted by
immri 
...being accountable is soo far from my natural instinct to want to hide everything...
It's not so much that I wanted to hide everything as I wanted to keep my options open...you know, in case my brain came up with new and better ideas. Ack...I'm guilty of this one.
I do think underestimating the scale of the effort is a key one, but also I think there is a tendency to either not try any changes in life or to try to make them all in the first week. Edit: Yes, being patient with the rate of change is important.