Tag: commitment

  • Commitment vs. Comfort

    Comfort is the greatest enemy of commitment. Comfort is a nicely padded, silk lined, pine box that lulls us off to sleep, forever. One may think they are committed to health, but the comfort of fatty food or the couch whispers a lullaby. One may say they want to be financially free yet the soft…

  • Commitment vs. addiction

    One of my teachers said that we only have two categories everything in our life falls into: our commitments or our addictions. We can ask ourselves: “Is this an addiction or a commitment?” The US is a culture of addictions. Fatty food, cigarettes, alcohol, TV,  anger, separation. Not that any of these are wrong. They…

  • When one commits, then providence moves too.

    “But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money–booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy,…

  • Successful and happy people know what they are committed to.

    I was at an infomercial taping for Alison Armstrong the other night. She’s been teaching women how to have amazing relationships with men for 18 years. When she started the taping, the first thing she said is, “I’m committed to heaven on earth.” Successful and happy people are always leaving clues. Just today, when rollerblading…

  • What are you willing to die for?

    “I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”  ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The key word here is “willing”. It’s not saying you “must” die while doing something. That’s an addiction to struggle. “Willing” to die is about commitment. Commitment means “to…