Applying business success to personal stuff
You know, the reason I started this personal blog was because I knew what my One Last Thing was and that I needed commitment, not a miracle.
And here I am today, reading a Seth Godin post in my collection of favorite biz-related newsfeeds and he’s saying:
On the other hand, if momentum or lack of focus is the thing holding you back, it’s time to get serious…. It just takes commitment, not a miracle.
Yes! I’m getting this.
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Thanks for commenting on my blog. I hopped over to read yours too. I love this post about commitment. I can’t remember who said it for sure, it was one of those guys you can buy their tapes on late night which I did many years ago. I think it was Tony Robbins, (he used to go by Anthony that is how long ago I bought them).
Anyway, he defined the word decision, and compared it to a road with a fork. Once you decide upon a direction you go down it and then you can’t go down the other. This is a lot like commitment. Deciding to go on a diet on new years day is not really a commitment if you know deep down that you will not follow it. Which is how most people approach a new diet. I know I used to.
The way I get around it is to commit to a finite task. I will go on the diet for 2 weeks, and then evaluate again if I will stay on it. It is so much easier to have all the small goals. Then I can say I already committed for these two weeks so I can’t do that. Then when I reevaluate I can decide to keep going as part of a larger goal. This way commitments become more like a new way of doing things instead of something we try to will ourselves into for as long as we can stand it.
Your lazy man triathlon is like that, your goal is set now you just have to do it in chunks till you get it done. I love that. I might even have to set a similar goal for myself. Good luck, I hope it all goes well for you.
You know — the road analogy will be a great visualization! Thanks!
Last night I split up the lazy man triathlon goals to figure out how to get them done — I won’t procrastinate and then try to do them in one day — oh, wait, that’d be a real triathlon! Not quite there yet