How do you build a close support network to help achieve your goals?

Question

At YC, groups meet every other week to discuss company goals and progress, learn from each other's experiences, and get guidance from their mentors. This system helps founders realize and adjust their goals and plans for what comes next, and helps enforce those goals by adding some amount of accountability.Have you used a similar system for your personal life or career?Do you have any experience forming small groups of friends or colleagues to regularly discuss goals?What systems/tools do you use to help you achieve your goals?

throwaway8879 · Accepted Answer

I have a weekly(Monday) chat session with an accountability buddy where we discuss the previous week's goals and make new goals for the coming week. It's a little bit more involved than just ticking off items, and involves being mindful about how to do things differently in the coming week. At first it was strictly work-related but morphed into including other areas such as health goals, mood/emotional goals etc. We're nearly one year into it.
My friend delivers mail for a day job and works on a fantasy novel the rest of the time. I'm sort of a code person working on a startup and various other things.
Somehow it works for us. And better than other approaches I've tried before.