“What is commitment?”

“That’s when you make a decision to do something and you follow through and do it!”

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When we commit to something we need to understand that we are making a “deal” with ourselves to do something.  Yes, often times there are other people involved in the commitment, but ultimately, the commitment is to ourselves.  For if we give our word, it is a self-commitment to fulfill whatever it is we promised.

Some commitments, such as relationships are more implicit.  When two people form a union in law or marriage, they are expressing their commitment to each other.  The details of what that commitment involves is between to the two people in the relationship.  However, the key is to understand that your commitment is whatever the other person is expecting when the promise was made.

So what does it mean to make a commitment to one’s self?  That is when you tell yourself you are going to do something, and you really want to do it.  For example, you might “commit” to lose weight, or to get healthy.  Is that a commitment or just a “would like to do?”  Well, that is up to you to decide, but we would recommend that you should only verbalize things that you are committed to doing.  If you constantly tell people, “I should lose a few pounds,” or “I should start running,” you are either going to do those things or you should quit talking about them until you are ready to commit to them.

That means that there are many things that you think about, but when you start to verbalize those things to others you should be at a point where you are ready to do them!  Yes, we all think about things that “we should be doing,” but for one reason or another are not convinced that we need to do them right now.  When you convince yourself, you need to do an “internal hand shake” with yourself and commit to it.

When you begin to filter out commitments with “want to do’s” you will begin to see the difference and be able to focus on those commitments.  Yes, it is possible to “over commit” and often times we are doing that since we have lots of “want to do’s” but haven’t committed to doing them.  Once we begin to make “self commitments” we can focus on those things and save the “want to do’s” for sometime later when we complete some of our other commitments.

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It’s important to know when you are making a commitment for your integrity, but more importantly your self happiness is at stake.  Commit with intention, and follow through until you feel the commitment has been completed – which in some cases is this lifetime!

Written, Tue, Feb 2, 2016 8:40 – 8:49 AM MST