Commitment is the subject we will be covering today. We are creating these topics from the offices of Power Technology, a Coaching Company, established in 1992. The purpose of these writings is to give you insights that will increase your productivity and enhance your life. Read these techniques from a place of possibility as to what you want to create in your life, and then go out and practice them in your life.
Today we’re going to focus on Commitment and how to live into your commitments. Let’s define commitment. By the way, most of the definitions we give won’t be found in Webster’s Dictionary, they are what we’ve discovered these words mean. Commitment is a DECLARATION of INTENTION. It could be what you will do, who you will be, or what you will have. Commitment is being or doing what you said you’d be or do, even after the high of having said it has worn off. An example could be exercise. Perhaps you’ve committed to exercise at 6:00 AM and the alarm goes off at 6:00 AM for you to get up to exercise, (for you to keep your commitment). You may not be as excited to exercise at 6:00 AM as you were when you made the commitment. How you “feel” about the commitment at the time you are to take action on your commitment has NO bearing on whether you take the actions toward your commitment. What has the bearing on your taking the action is the commitment itself. Your commitment needs to call you forward to take the actions, not how you “feel” about taking the actions.
FEELINGS
Your feelings have no power unless you give them power. If we operate from our feelings rather than our commitments, our lives and our actions will be erratic. Sometimes you’d feel like doing something you said you’d do and sometimes you wouldn’t. When we operate from our commitments and we’re willing to declare our commitments, our lives and actions will be more stable and we will grow at a much faster rate of speed.
DO IT
To break it down to its simplest terms: “If you said it, do it.” If you said you’d call at a certain time, do it. If you said you’d exercise, do it. If you said you’d be married forever, do it. If you said you’d eat healthy, do it. If you said you would make prospecting calls, do it. Whatever you said you’d do, when the times comes to do it, do it. Even if you don’t “feel” like doing it. Especially if you don’t “feel” like doing it.
By your operating from your commitments, your life will occur more easy and with less effort. Even though it will seem easier not to do what you said you would do, when you don’t keep your commitments your life will be harder. When you do take actions on your commitments your life will be easier, and you will get MORE of what you want. You DESERVE to have what you want! Now go do what it will take to have what you want, and ENJOY the process!