Commitment is turning my choice to deliver 31 blog posts in the month of March into reality.
Delivering 31 blog posts in the month of March has required a commitment to new priorities. I made a commitment to myself that writing every day is a priority for me. Reality set in and I realized there might be days I just can’t get a post out. I added reasonableness to the commitment by wording it as 31 posts in 31 days and not a post a day.
The blogging commitment has resulted in a dramatic increase in my creative thinking. This morning I looked through my list of topic ideas and none of them jumped out at me as needing to be written. Yesterday, however, I realized just how busy I am becoming. Without continuously improving my goals, choices, and priorities I will not be able to keep my commitments to my family and my work. Presto I have a topic for today!
Commitment is about sticking to it. Growing my business is a priority. Yesterday I realized that the combination of extensive travel and the additional commitment to social media had unintentionally lowered my priority on “paperwork.” I’m committed to my business so that had to change. I made a choice to stick to it all day yesterday and get as caught up as I could. The payoff was finding a significant business opportunity that can be followed up on and turned into cash flow fairly quickly.
The key is to turn those activities you are committed to into habits. Writing daily has become a habit and I have reached a point where not writing for a day would feel weird. This reminded me that last year I developed some regular habits with paperwork so it never got ahead of me. I’m going back to some of those habits starting today. The choice to return to those habits is consistent with my goal of being committed to having a successful business.
Writing is the doing part of thinking and by writing about goals for this post I have solidified some of my own thinking. Can you see how my commitment to writing is helping me grow my understanding of goals, choices, commitments and priorities?
Some days it’s easy to write and other days I struggle. Those are usually the days when I have emails to reply to, meetings to attend, brainstorming to do. I can only focus my energy into writing when my brain isn’t exhausted from other things. Doing several posts in one day is more realistic when I look at it like that. It all goes back to other commitments and priorities. I admire your commitment to 31 posts in 31 days! PS Am I crazy or did you change over to Disqus? I like it!
This was actually a tough post to write (it felt like work vs. the ones that just fly off the finger tips). So, I get what you mean my brain is exhausted today but what’s one to do but power through!
Nope, not crazy and you are the first one to post a Disqus comment. Did it after seeing Chris Brogan uses it and then asked him a question about why in Third Tribe. His reasons were compelling so here I am on Disqus 🙂
Some days it's easy to write and other days I struggle. Those are usually the days when I have emails to reply to, meetings to attend, brainstorming to do. I can only focus my energy into writing when my brain isn't exhausted from other things. Doing several posts in one day is more realistic when I look at it like that. It all goes back to other commitments and priorities. I admire your commitment to 31 posts in 31 days! PS Am I crazy or did you change over to Disqus? I like it!
This was actually a tough post to write (it felt like work vs. the ones that just fly off the finger tips). So, I get what you mean my brain is exhausted today but what's one to do but power through!
Nope, not crazy and you are the first one to post a Disqus comment. Did it after seeing Chris Brogan uses it and then asked him a question about why in Third Tribe. His reasons were compelling so here I am on Disqus 🙂