Channeling the Commitment You Need to Achieve Your Goals

A certain school of thought has dominated cultures all around the globe in recent years and this is what it says, Follow your passions and everything else will flow. This suggests that if one would only find that specific thing that they are zealous about then would life become easier for them. They would enjoy what they do and consequently become a success. It emphasizes on zeal and digging deep into the self to discover what it is that makes one tick and then never deviating from that. Here is the problem with this manner of thinking, it can be misleading in the sense that it causes those who take it with no pinch of salt to become sloppy at their current assignments if they think they are in the wrong job, profession or field altogether. It goes on to furnish them with attitude and arrogance just because they believe they don’t owe anyone excellence in something they aren’t passionate about.

I replayed those words in my mind and soon realized that following one’s passions is overrated while the teachings on commitment are lacking. The need to be steady and give your all to whatever you set out to do is important. There is no denying that where there is genuine love for something, it becomes easier to follow that thing through but we must not forget the power a human being possesses to make decisions. It’s even possible to decide to grow in love with something or someone without waiting for a feeling first.

Now how can you channel your commitment towards your targets? The first thing you need to do is realize the power you carry over your own life and how much of your success depends on you. Your outcome depends on you much more than it does your past, your setbacks, favor from other people, or support from your family and friends. Realizing this endows you with the virtue necessary to decide to keep working on yourself and your ambitions.

Next is the need to learn the art of eliminating distractions and calmly walking through a storm. Honey is sweet but much carefulness is needed in handling the honeycomb. Having made the resolve to work out your plans for the life of your dreams, treat opposing thoughts and words as noise and ignore them. When they get louder, work harder.

Pain is almost inevitable in life but the choice is left unto you to pick a kind. Are you going to go through the pain of disciplining yourself, waking up earlier, reading books, thinking, forgoing some fun activities to concentrate on some less thrilling and perhaps tedious ones as you build your legacy, or will you choose the pain of living in lack and dissatisfaction of knowing you could have been more than what you are had it not been for laziness? Give thought to this, hold yourself accountable for your own growth and success, and remove the option of falling backward. Do burn the bridges that lead back to your comfort zone so that success becomes the only possibility for you.