Are you Keeping Your Commitments?

Commitment: def. the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action

Commitments are an extremely important facet of our daily lives. The ability to keep and honor commitments communicates volumes about an individual. Inability to keep them however, can have disastrous impacts on your character and level of buy-in into a group, project, business or relationship. It is hence essential to be very careful about the commitments we make, this wariness often causes and leads to “Commitment Phobia”. If you never commit to anything great, you don’t really stand a chance to face the heat, if things do not go your way. Many individuals choose to live their entire lives this way. Always playing it safe, thereby avoiding any chance of failing or coming up short. In a way they are the living dead, choosing to drift through life, never really experiencing what it truly has to offer.

Given what I said in the last paragraph, doesn’t however give everyone who wants to “live life”, the right to take on whatever commitment comes their way. I believe the ability to deliver on certain commitments requires skills, confidence and most importantly a belief in yourself. These factors are not developed overnight and require dedication and persistence to build. We hence need to take on only those commitments that we have the capability to deliver on, and continue building on the necessary skills to enable us to take on larger levels of commitments. The minute we stop growing in this direction, we set ourselves up for disappointments when we take up more than we can chew.

“Commitment Phobia” should not paralyze us into becoming what you ultimately want to. It should in fact prod you to grow and improve yourself, to grow and develop skill sets and a belief in them for yourself. Take on projects and responsibilities, best suited to your ability. For those that you can’t take on, understand this is not the time for them, learn and work on the areas you need to grow in. If we allow fear to take control of our lives and let the “What if’s” control our destiny, we can dream for the stars, yet, never take that first step to start moving towards them.

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