Emotions and Commitment

Most of our 'Committments' are made in a state of strong emotion. What I have learned from my mentor Mr. Self is that commitment is: doing the thing you say you are going to do long after the emotion you said it in has gone. This is commitment.
This is an awareness peice that is so neccessary for repeating throughout life. There have been so many times I have fallen short of a goal due to the emotions that take me off the course. The beauty of life is that life will keep giving you opportunities to try try again.
Test yourself. You know there has been something you have been resolving to accomplish, resolving to achieve. Something that you avoid looking at some times and other times it is the only thing you can focus on. Go through this simple process, so how you do. See if you can make the committment have the drive to accomplish it inspite of the emotions that follow in the act of attempting to accomplish it:
1) Set a short term goal, something you desire to accomplish
2) Write down the daily tasks that will be necessary to accomplish that goal
3) Schedule the time for these tasks, time you will be committed to (remember emotions will sidetrack as events that seem more important come along)
4) Only schedule the tasks for one week.
5) Every day before completing the tasks write the emotions that you are overcoming to do the task. If something else seems more pressing, distraction and anxiety over the other task may be the emotion. If it is hard to do because the end seems to not be accomplish in the task the confusion and disillusion emotions are being overcome. If it seems hard you are overcoming a fear and placing hope in the process.
6) Review at the end of the 7 days how you did.
7) Celebrate yourself for being in the process. Even if the end goal was not accomplished you are absolutely closer then before, even if you are finding out what doesn't work.
8) Plan Do and Review again and set out to improve on the results before. Eventually the right combinations of activities will get you to the goal.

It is crucial to understand that the majority of success is mastering emotions. When I am working with people I let them know that it is not going to be life events or what happens to you that will decide your level of success in any area of life. It will absolutely be the way you respond to what happens and the emotions you discipline to press forward.

Joshua Andrus
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