Commitment: A Driving Force In Your Life
What are you really committed to?
Let’s do a close-up on this driving force in you life: the key qualities and benefits / what blocks it / and enabling your full commitment for realizing what is most important to you.
Commitment, simply said, involves being dedicated to something because you want to do it.
Obligation involves doing something because you believe you should or have to do it.
Key qualities and benefits of commitment. When you fully commit to something:
It mobilizes your focus, resources and action.
Enables you to fully show up through all the stages of moving forward.
Engages your willingness to face and resolve challenges.
Inspires the potential of your Best-Self to emerge.
Uncovers opportunities and supports you hadn’t realized are there.
Others sense your full commitment which often prompts them to align with and support your progress.
What can you add to this short list?
What blocks your commitment? Notice a pattern that builds upon itself.
Being trapped in confusion and overwhelm.
Fixed beliefs and perceptions that are shrouded in should’s and can’t's.
Not knowing what you really think, feel and want.
Concern you will lose freedom and comfort in areas important to you.
Protecting what you believe is your status and success.
Unwilling take to a stand about what is important to you and do what is necessary to create the change.
What can you add to this short list?
Enabling your full commitment. Notice a pattern that builds upon itself.
Step out of the relentless pace and create periods of quiet and serenity to hear your-inner-voice, the real you.
Lean beyond the usual edge of your perspectives to realize what you really think, feel and want.
Become willing to change and grow in alignment with what is important to you.
Be inspired to more fully show up with the power of your potential, your Best-Self.
Reach out for alignment of resources and supports.
Stabilize / resolve your current situation while transitioning one step at a time into the situation and life you are committed to.
What can you add to this short list?
Questions for reigniting your commitments.
1 - What are you half-committed to? What keeps you engaged in it? What is missing?
2 - What are your major commitments? Is your heart in it? What is missing?
3 - How will you create the space to really hear your-inner-voice about what would make a difference in your life? When will you do this? And then continue the steps to fully commit to generating it?
As always I look forward to your feedback, along with suggestions for future articles.
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