The Mindset Mentor - Ep 30 - Commitment: The Backbone To Your Success

Episode Date: October 28, 2015

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And the other thing that I ask of you is that if you like this episode, if it brings you value, please share it with a friend because we are trying to change the world one person at a time here at MWF Motivation. And if you're new here, MWF stands for Monday, Wednesday, Friday, which is when our new episodes come out every single week. So today what we're going to be talking about is commitment, the thing that separates the doers from the dreamers. And what I'm going to talk to you about and use a lot of quoting is from a book by John

C. Maxwell called Motivated to Succeed. So Motivated to Succeed. And he talks about commitment. And before I dive into the commitment, I'm going to give you a quote on commitment that I love. And it is from Mario Andretti, the racer. And it says, desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek. So as far as commitments, you know, what is commitment?

To each person, commitment is something different. And I'm going to go through what John C. Maxwell talks about in his book. And he says, to the boxer, it is getting off of the mat one more time when you've been knocked down. To the marathon runner, it is running another 10 miles when your strength is completely gone. To the soldier, it is going over the hill and not know what's waiting on the other side. To the missionary, it's saying goodbye to your own comfort to make life better for others. To the leader, it's all that and more because

everyone you lead is depending on you. If you want to be an effective leader, if you want to be a successful person, you have to be committed. True commitment inspires and also attracts other people. It shows them that you have conviction and people are attracted to conviction and passion. It's like the quote says, if you light yourself on fire, people will come to watch you burn. So they will believe in you and only believe in your cause as well if you really have that conviction and buy-in. As the law of buy-in states, people buy into the leader, they don't buy into the vision. So as far as commitment, three things that you need to know about commitment. Number one, commitment starts in the heart. Some people

want everything to be perfect before they commit to doing anything for themselves. before they commit to doing anything for themselves. But commitment always precedes achievement. You know, I actually heard, and it says it in here, that in the Kentucky Derby, the winning horse effectively runs out of oxygen the first half mile, and the rest of it goes just on heart. And that's like Michael Jordan says,

he said, heart is what separates the good from the great. So if you want to make a difference in other people's lives and be successful or be a successful leader, look into your heart and see if you're really committed to your goals and the things that you want to achieve. The second thing to know about commitment is commitment is tested by action. It's one thing to talk about how committed you are, but it's something else to actually do it and to work at it. The only real measure of commitment is action. And as Arthur Gordon says, nothing is easier than saying words.

Nothing is harder than living them day after day. So don't wait for things to happen. Go out and make it happen. Make your own future. So what are you doing when it comes to following through on your commitments? Are you following through? Are you taking the action needed on your commitments to be successful? The third thing to know about commitment is commitment opens the door to achievement. And what does that mean? On your road to success, you will face plenty of obstacles if you haven't already. And there will be times when commitment is the only thing that's going to carry you forward.

You know, it's like the quote says, commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to to get up no matter how many times you're kicked in the face. So if you want to get anywhere worthwhile throughout your entire life, you must be committed, committed to something. And I can't tell you what that thing is. That's for you to decide. So when it comes to commitment though, there's really only four types of people. There's the cop-outs, there's the holdouts, there's the hold-outs, there's the drop-outs, and there's the all-outs. So number one, the cop-out. We all know these types of people. They're the people who have no goals and they don't commit to anything. They never make a decision. They never do anything with themselves and they're going to die sadly

without having achieved anything. The second type of person is the holdout, people who don't know if they can reach their goals, so they're afraid to commit. And there's a lot of people out there where they're just, you know, fear is what holds them back of committing and going to their goals because they don't know if they can reach their goals. And it's easier to not go anywhere

than to go anywhere and fail for them. The third type of person is the dropout. People who start, they go towards a goal, but when it starts to get tough is when they decide that they want to quit. So those are the dropouts. And the fourth person, the person that I hope that you are, and if you're not at this point, the person that I hope that we all become and we all start working towards is the all-outs. The people who set goals, they commit to those goals, and they pay the price to reach their goals. They work hard, they commit, they put the action in, and they eventually reach their goals. So what kind of person are you? You know, have you been reaching towards your goals lately? Are you achieving all that you really believe that

you can? Or do you think that there's more for you? You know, if you're like me and you're, you know, you're listening to this podcast, you know that there's more for you. And it's a process every single day to keep working on ourselves, keep working on our habits to achieve more and become better in everything that we do. You know, do people believe in you and follow you and your goals and your commitments? So if you answered no to any of these questions, a problem might be your level of commitment. So let me give you three quick steps to improve your commitment. So number one is to measure it. Sometimes we think we're committed to something, yet our actions indicate otherwise.

committed to something, yet our actions indicate otherwise. So take out your calendar, spend a few hours tallying up the past month of how you spent your time. And if you don't keep a calendar, you know, what I would say is get to the end of today and look back and see how you spent your time and try to spend time looking at your calendar and see what you're putting work at. You know, how much time did you spend at work? How much time did you spend in your passion? How much time did you spend with your family? How much time did you spend, you know, working on your health or doing recreational activities and so forth? All of these are true measures of your commitment. And you may be surprised finding out some of the things that you spend your time on when you're not paying attention. The second step to improving your commitment is know what's worth dying for. And

this might sound cliche and corny to you, but one of the questions that every leader and every successful person must ask themselves is, what am I willing to die for? If it came down to it, what in life would you not be able to stop doing no matter what the consequences were? So that's a hard question to ask yourself. So what I would recommend is take some time, some quiet time with yourself, some journaling time, spend some time thinking about what is so important to you in your life that you would not be able to stop doing. What is worth dying for to you? Write down whatever you discover and see if your actions are meeting your ideals. And the last step, the third step to improve on your commitment is to use the Edison

method. If all else fails and if you're taking a step forward and your commitment is the problem, try to do what Thomas Edison did. When he had a good idea for an invention, what he would do is he would call a press conference to announce it. He would announce to everybody in his company and then he would go into his lab and he would invent it. So make your plans public. If making a commitment is the hard thing for you,

go out and tell people. Have people hold you accountable for what you want to do. So tell people what you want to do. Have them hold you accountable because you might be more do. So tell people what you want to do, have them hold you accountable because you might be more committed. You should be more committed if people are expecting for you to do something and they're counting on you to do so. So those are the three steps to improve your commitment. Number one, measure it. Number two, know what is worth dying for. Number three, use the Edison method.

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