Your life truly starts the moment you commit to you.
The Best Thing You Can Do, Is Commit To You.
RnB Superstar Mya, Dennis Rodman wore a wedding dress to promote his book. However, thankfully, no one is asking for anybody to commit in the same way as them, to achieve greatness.
However, Mya and Dennis Rodman, might have been on to something. A plan can only work, when we do, through executing it. Similarly, we only get the most out of life, when we commit to doing our best. Or, to put it a slightly different way, when we are fully committed to ourselves.
Everybody wants to win. Again, everybody has a will to win. However, only some of us have a will to do all of the things, the preparation, the sacrifices necessary, to make winning a reality.
We all want the end results. The money, the fame, the power, the glory, the freedom. However, all of that output, comes from our input. We can only get out of life, what we have first put into it.
To, get straight to the point. We are all bound to hit a glass ceiling of our own making, as long as we continue to go through life, without committing.
Yes, there it is again, the ‘C’ word. Funnily enough, when it comes to the ‘C’ (committment) word in relationships. Some people break out in cold sweats. They are okay, with keeping things casual and having fun. Commitment, exclusivity and being dedicated, presumably to one person, is a scary prospect for them.
Comitting to someone else, can be complicated. Relationships can be challenging. However, commiting to ourselves, should be a no-brainer. People’s love lives and dating preferences are their business. However, what is relevant here is that while committment can be optional in our dating lives.
You Are Non Optional.
It is absolutely non optional and an essential part of our lives in general. Committment is putting your foot down. It is making a choice. Standing for something. To commit, is to agree to maintain a certain level of standards. Committment entails being true to the people we are committing to. As well as, certain principles.
The one thing none of us can do, is be in two places at once. We can only ever be over here or over there. Which is to say, that being non commital with ourselves is a commitment too.
It is a commitment to doing less than our best. Which in turn blocks us from being in a position where we can experience the best out of life. Moreover, it is one thing to be unable to commit or fully commit to someone, in our love lives.
However, what is unthinkable and unnacceptable, is being unable to commit to yourself. You are the first person, that you should commit to, because like they say when you fly. You have to put your life jacket on first, before you can be able to save the life of others.
Just like what was mentioned above, end results are the results of prior investments. If we as individuals, want to receive, the best of what life has to offer. We have to first commit, (to ourselves) and giving life the best of us. Doing our best, is one of the main principles, that we have to commit to, if we want to achieve the best results in life.
Being non committal. Allowing ourselves the freedom to fluctuate at will and only put forward our best efforts when we are feeling our best. Might seem like, we are being balanced and staying true to ourselves.
However, life is short. Moreover, our perception, that we are only capable of performing when we feel good is wrong.
Like life (and the Universe) itself, we are all defined by abundance. Separation occurs, between how different human beings perform because of our beliefs and our committments.
When You Commit To You, It Sets The Tone.
We can either be noncomittal with ourselves, allowing ourselves the freedom to only show up when we feel like it. Or we can commit to always doing our best. Arguably though, Karma, is a real thing. Therefore arguably, it is the person that always does their best, who can expect to always receive the best from life.
Furthermore, commitment, makes connection possible. We are all born physically connected to our mothers via the placenta. Pre birth, this is how we were able to receive nourishment from our mothers when they ate.
Post birth, that physical connection, is (normally) replaced with an emotional/spiritual connection. That enables the nourishing relationship between mother and child to continue.
The point here is that, comittment, connection and growth, are all linked. Moreover, the presence of these two C’s, bring about a third, ‘C’ word: consistency.
When things are casual or non committal. Results can fluctuate and inconsistency, can run rampant. However, when we commit and insist on putting the work in. When we commit to standards of excellence and doing our best everyday, regardless of how we feel.
That is where separation occurs, with doing, with productivity. It’s where consistency, joins the chat and it’s where legends are born.
Through consistency, we are able to achieve the 10,000 hours or ten years of mastery that Malcolm Gladwell speaks about in Outliers. What all of this does is, it allows us to achieve exposure and a level of experience to where we can perform at a high level on cue, at will, practically, all the time. Whether we are feeling good or otherwise.
Which leaves us with a most beautiful perspective. Greatness is never achieved, theoretically. It is only achieved and earned through action. Action born from commitment, connection and crowned with consistency.
Let others see committment as a dirty word, however, to all reading this article, let it be known that commitment is the city in which all true greatness is born.