Sunday Story…Get it done

I have written about commitment before. Let’s face it…commitment is hard, held back by the twin demons of finite time and hard work (as in I don’t want to do it.) There is no way to success without commitment. There is no change without commitment. There is no goal that gets achieved without commitment.

Once we have committed to change some things are going to change in order to get what it is I say I want to get. You can’t stop drinking in a bar, starting a diet in an ice cream shop is ill-advised, and becoming fit isn’t going to happen sitting on the couch with your friends. You are going to need to change your environment and your time allocations.

So start with the easy stuff; look around you. Are you surrounded with people who are positive and supportive of your goals? Is your life filled with people who, even if they won’t join you, will be on the sidelines cheering for you? If not you are going to have to fire those people. You need to be in an environment that raises you up, not pulls you down.

When we look at time the mistake so many of us make is to add the new thing. This is a huge error. You need to subtract something to make room for the new things. Trade television watching for your new work out time. We all get 168 hours a week. There are some things you must do…sleep, eat, and work. If you are going to be truly committed you are going to have to take the carving knife out and cut something out to make room for the new ones. Be brutally honest with yourself but there are sacrifices to be made on the way to getting your goal achieved.

Environments are going to need to shift. If it is fitness you are after you need to spend some time in the gym, on the road, in the pool. You can’t avoid it but if you think you are going to knock out a 40 minute workout in the corner bar, you are kidding yourself. You need to create an easy path to success. Clean eating takes planning that is going out the window as soon as you are tired from working a 12 hour shift and that double mocha macchiato with a cupcake calls your name because you failed to prepare a meal in advance. You can’t change by wishing it so, it is going to take planning and making sure you set up an environment of support.

You are going to need to do the work…the down and dirty work. When the alarm goes off, when it is time for class, when practice is scheduled you strap on your grown up pants and go get it done. You need to start. You don’t have to be great or perfect to start but you have to start. It won’t always be fun and sometimes it will suck but you do it in the face of no guarantee of success. You do it because it committed to doing it. You do it because you made the time to do it. You do it because you planned on doing it.

Want success? Be committed. Follow that commitment with a blueprint for making it work. Cut out stuff to make time for new, more important stuff. Set yourself up for success by doing advance planning. Get down in the trenches and do the work.

This will not be easy, there is going to be sacrifice, struggle and pain. It isn’t going to come any other way. But there is no time other than now to begin. Slaughter the unnecessary, slash the time with impunity, create new by removing the old and do the work.

You can beat mediocrity. You can be better. You can change your life. You can change the world.

Namaste

John Mariotti
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