When you make a
commitment with yourself, do you generally keep all of them? Or do you
continually let yourself down? Always remember that there is always a price to
be paid when you make a commitment or promise to yourself. That price can
either be one of regret or one of accomplishment. Which one do you most often
choose?
Keeping
Commitments Feels Good
How do you feel when you
make a commitment with yourself and you keep that commitment? You feel great,
you feel on top of the world. In fact your body rewards you with a rush of feel
good hormones. How do you feel when you let yourself down and you continually
fail to meet your commitments with yourself? You feel down, disappointed and
really bad. Your body rewards you with negative hormones, which not only make
you feel bad, but they affect your body by causing you stress and discomfort.
Your Body Rewards You
This seems like a
no-brainer to me. If you meet and keep your commitments that you make with
yourself, your body rewards you with feel good hormones and you get to achieve
great things. If you don't, you feel bad, your body punishes you with chemicals
that make you feel awful and you remain trapped in mediocrity.
My question is:
- If keeping our commitments with ourselves makes us feel good and we also get to achieve greatness, then why do so many people break their commitments with themselves?
- Why do so many people choose to not have the necessary discipline to meet their daily commitments?
- Why do so many people choose to feel stressed and bad, rather than happy and satisfied?
Unfortunately the answer to all these
questions is rather simple. We are so wrapped up in quick fixes and the
pleasure of the moment, that we cannot see the huge benefits of keeping all the
commitments we make with ourselves.
- It is far easier to press the snooze button in the morning than it is to get up and go to gym.
- It is far easier to get wrapped up in mindless television shows that distract us than it is to find an hour or two each evening to improve our lives.
- The pleasure of the now seems far more important than the future success, which will come with sustained effort.
- We are unable to wait for future gratification.
Make a conscious effort
to keep your commitments with yourself over the next month. You will
gradually convert this very worthwhile effort into your new success habit set.
Make the choice today to make the shift towards keeping your commitments with
yourself and introduce daily discipline into your life as a success creator.
When you make this shift, you transform yourself into a super achiever.
Make the shift today:
- Read a new book that will open you up to new knowledge and empower you for success.
- Start a new productive activity that will create the future you desire.
- Start the process of life change and develop new positive habits to support your efforts.
- Make the shift to daily discipline and take small measured actions every day, until you find the success you desire.
You can choose to make
these small, yet significant changes right now and you will see remarkable
improvements in your life very soon. Or you can choose to do nothing.
Where you continue to pretend and never commit to perform anything meaningful
with your life. Both choices will deliver an outcome in the future. I know that
choosing to make these shifts will cost almost nothing.
The price of not making
these small positive changes could be far higher. You may pay the price through
unhappiness, lack of fulfilment, bankruptcy, failure, divorce or poor health. Dare
to pay the small price of daily discipline now, it weighs ounces. When compared
to the huge burden you may carry later, if you do not introduce these small
shifts into your life.
Life is Filled with
Choices:
You can continue to
choose rest, over positive activity, entertainment
over education, pleasure in the moment over daily discipline and continue to
live an unfulfilled life without meaning. Or you can make the shift towards
achievement and make a few better choices, where you finally start to keep the
commitments you make with yourself.
How do you Change Things?
So if you want to change
things in your life you must stop cursing the effect of your lacklustre
performance and stop nourishing the cause of your dissatisfaction. You must finally
choose new positive daily behaviours and disciplines as your new habit set.
Make better choices starting right now and you will very quickly begin living
the life of your dreams.
You have the power to
transform your life. You can change everything that is not satisfactory. It all
starts and ends with your own power of choice. What are you waiting for?
Author: Andrew Horton Motivational Speakers
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