What is filling your mind today? Are you meditating on God and His Word, or are your thoughts on other things? When you make a decision regarding how to spend your time or your money, what influences the outcome? Is it what the Holy Spirit tells you or is it other things? Mark 4 talks about the desire for other things that can grow up around us and choke us. Something significant happens in the spiritual realm when you give 100% to God, with no reservation. He wants you to be fully committed to Him, not just 99% committed. God wants all of you, not just a part of you. The first commandment is to love Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength (see Mark 12:30). The path to high performance leadership is made easier with making and keeping our commitments to our self and others.For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him (2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV).ĭo you need God to show Himself strong on your behalf today? He has made a promise that He will deliver you if your heart is fully committed to Him. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sometimes we need help with our commitments, and we seek out this help through our friends, co-workers, spouses, coaches, mentors… By asking for help, we are strengthening our commitment to ourselves and others we are fulfilling our obligations contractually with ourselves to follow through to the end, no matter what it takes. Making sure you understand the difference in an agreement and a commitment is a good first step, but then transitioning to making sure you keep your commitments after you make them. When it comes to leadership commitments matter. We are social creatures who desire connections and relationships with others a sense of accomplishment and pride in our contributions to making life better for everyone in our lives including ourselves. Being free and having few commitments sounds so refreshing to many who have spouses, children, pets, jobs, mortgages… but for only a fleeting moment when life feels heavy and burdensome. To stay committed to something, you have to put effort in and periodically change up what you are doing to keep it alive and fresh.Ĭommitments are what ground you and keep you active and engaged in life. Ask yourself why you are still in something that you have doubts about or don’t believe in or worse yet, that you give less than all of you to. If you have any of this in your life, let’s look at it for a moment. Like a dead-end job or a loveless marriage. Sometimes commitment can be confused with staying with something long after you should. Weight loss, getting a formal education, going for the big contract and landing it. Think about something you have committed to, followed through with to the end, and how you felt at the end knowing you didn’t break it along the way. But only in the last year did I make a commitment and stick to it and have successfully released 30lbs.Ĭommitment is a fulfilling endeavor that when followed through gives an immense sense of accomplishment. I agreed for several years I needed to lose some weight and get into better physical condition. Something you will make happen even if there is some discomfort involved. Something you give 100% of your whole self to. We make agreements to people, banks, work, pets, ourselves.Ī commitment is something that you have no doubts about. However, many of us break our commitments because we aren't really fully committed, we simply agree it is something we should do. You see, you made an agreement, but not a commitment.Ī commitment should be treated as a binding contract with yourself. I agree we should connect and have dinner, but then you never do. No, what you break is an agreement.Īgreements are those things you say you want to do or should do. But I don't think you do break commitments. Do you make commitments and then break them? Maybe you said yes.
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