Your Commitment to Yourself is As Important As Your Commitment to Others

How well you are keeping your word? Many of us try hard to keep our commitments to others. We try to call if we say we will. We make every effort to appear when others are counting on us. We're trying to get projects done on time. We do not promise things you can not deliver.

We want our words to be worth something. It's part of my life with integrity.

Unfortunately, many of us are not quite as good at keeping our commitments to yourself. How many times have you said: "I will ..." only that they intend to fall away? "I'll slow down." "I will lose weight." "I'm going to get my life in order." "I am going to exercise regularly." "I will watch less TV and spend more time reading." "I'll get to bed at a decent hour." Does this sound familiar?

While we have good intentions, life circumstances often keep us from them honor. Do we really mean you are saying? If so, we must make a commitment to follow through on things that are promising is just in the same way we would if we were making those promises to someone else.

Here is a simple way to use your commitment to others to help you with your commitment to yourself:

Find someone to be your coach or mentor. You agree to take action to follow through on intentions and give their words through the commitment you make you'll follow putem.Trener then has the responsibility for what I said you were going to do so.

Typically, a coach you do not swear if you do not do what it promised, but he or she will help you to look at what we got in the way you honor your commitment. This could be important information if the following is a problem for you. Obviously, the next step will be to solve it by the can follow through.

Even if the following is not a problem, has an obligation to take some action, and be responsible for actually doing is very helpful. Just in case you are tempted to procrastinate, back, or avoid doing, you are obliged to motivate you.

Finally, in the end everything comes back on his word. How is your word worth? If you are unable to honor its obligations to themselves and / or others, your life is likely to feel out of control and out of balance because they do not live with integrity.

If you're good to honor their obligations to others, but not as well as on compliance, that is, look at this issue honestly. Although a variety of contexts, and commitment to self and commitment to others are important in living with integrity. Your commitment to yourself is every bit as important as your commitment to others.

(c) 2008 Linda Pucci, etc.