Your success and self improvement requires self motivation to leave your comfort zone, walk through fear, walk in faith, learn how to deal with adversity and stress, overcome self-limiting beliefs, be focused, develop new skills, and on and on
In light of all it takes to reach your highest level of self improvement and success, it wont happen if you dont have a commitment in place at the beginning of your journey, and at each step along the way.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to successfully climb Mount Everest, said, Commitment is the first step, and all else lines up. Lets take a look at what he meant, and how that relates to your motivation, success, and self improvement.
Imagine you and I take a walk every morning along the banks of a river. Each day, we enjoy the beauty and the serenity of the flowing water and cool breeze as we crunch through the leaves that fell the season before.
Weeks pass and one day, you and I make a commitment to cros2235s the river. We walk along the same path weve taken for months. As we walk, the beauty and serenity are all present, but suddenly our entire experience has changed because of our commitment. Our conversation is unlike any weve had before.
You point out a rock in the river and say, Bill, maybe we can wade out to that rock and then climb up and over that fallen tree. Then I say, Yes, and from there we can get to that flat rock, swim to that overhanging branch, and use it to pull ourselves toward the far shore
Then you suddenly say, But wait. Look down there. See where the river narrows downstream? Maybe that would provide an easier way
Were noticing aspects of the river we never noticed before. For months, we didnt care how close any rock might be to a fallen tree, but today that information means everything. The fallen trees and rocks have suddenly become stepping stones for crossing the river! Isnt this interesting? The river hasnt changed one iota. You and I havent changed either. The trees and rocks are the same, but our entire experience of walking along the river has been transformed.
The only difference between our walk today and our previous walks is that we decided we wanted to end up in a different place on this day and then made a commitment to get there.
Our commitment to cross the river has transformed our experience into a venture for success and self improvement. Our commitment gives us motivation, focus, and the ability to notice and act on pertinent information to accomplish our objective.
Just as your relationship with the river is transformed with your commitment, your relationship with achieving anything can be transformed when you do the same thing.
School never taught us the importance or power of making commitments with ourselves to stand for things in a way that produces new energy and new possibilities. Life would be a lot different if the only things in the middle of the road were a yellow line and a dead possum. The magic of success, self improvement, and motivation happens when you stand for something. Extraordinary accomplishments happen when you make a stand by making a commitment.
My favorite definition of commitment is - Doing what you said you would do, long after the moment in which you said it, has passed.
Being committed to something or simply being involved in it are two very different ways to bring yourself to the life you lead, and the outcomes of each are also significantly different. When you consider how different a relationship will turn out, depending on whether you are involved with someone or committed to them, you begin to understand the significant advantage a commitment gives you for having success. Commitment creates motivation for success and self improvement, long after the moment you were first inspired to be, do, have, and experience more.
In the words of Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
When you make a commitment, you make such a resolution with yourself. What are you aching to accomplish or achieve, but motivation and progress toward success and self improvement seem to elude you? Deepen your commitmentand watch what happens.
Copyright 2007
This article content is from Bill Dyer's Award-Winning Book,
How To Bounce Back And Be Happy When Life Blows You Down.
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