I took a course years ago called “Commitment: The Power of Your Word.” I have forgotten most every course or class I have ever taken but not this one. It is one of the few courses I still have the notebook with my notes.
What did I see and learn in the course? Commitment is the backbone, strength and driving force of achievement -- the triumph of possibility over resignation, of creation over change, of your word and deed over all the practical reasons why "it can't be done."
Commitment begins with our speaking and listening. It is our word that has the power to create a future and alter what's possible, leaving us fully in accord with our own possibilities and those of others. Commitment is the difference between involvement and accountability. It is taking responsibility before the fact rather than after the fact.
The short version is words matter and your word matters most. A quote from the course, which was filled with quotes and which I reread often, is:
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one could have dreamt would have come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
from "The Scottish Himalayan Expedition"
by W. H Murray
What does this mean? Everyone is committed to something. What you have and where you are now is what you being committed looks like. The power of commitment makes nothing happen, it only makes it possible. If you are ready to engage in what is possible in your life and turn your financial dreams into reality visit www.eisbrener.net
Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
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