What Are You Committed To? Prove It!

Have you noticed that when you are fully committed to issues that affect your life or to an important cause, goal or even a relationship; you become bold, decisive, gutsy and unstoppable and are able to attract support and resources from people who have the answers or the help you need? It’s almost like you become a totally different person!

When you are committed, you have lots of energy and are driven by a strong sense of purpose to achieve what you want. You unlock the doors of your imagination, your vision expands and your creativity is boundless.

When you are not committed to something, you hesitate and are reluctant to move boldly toward the things you want. You become indecisive about the actions to take and all you really have are just mere wishes, promises, hopes and a fleeting interest with no solid action.

If you find yourself dilly dallying about a project, ask yourself, “how committed am I?”

There is an old joke: five frogs were sitting on a log when one of them decided to jump off. Can you guess how many were left sitting on the log? Five frogs— because deciding to jump doesn’t mean jumping!

The lesson is that, your decisions to commit to important issues must be backed up by some form of tangible action or motion.

Take a moment and consider your life and all the commitments you made to yourself this year:

Perhaps, when the year began, you made commitments to yourself, saying, “I will do this and that, or I want to achieve this goal by the end of next year, or I want to stop doing this and start doing that” and so forth. Now, that the New Year is fast approaching, chances are that you’re still thinking along the same lines.

As you make plans and commitments for the New Year…

Here are 5 questions to think about:

1.What did you do about the things you committed to this year?

2. What are you really committed to now?

3. How does what you are committed to fit in with your big picture for 2007?

4. If people were watching you, how would they know that you were committed?

5. What one action will you take to back up your commitment to a 2007 personal goal?