Why is commitment better than making a decision? Let’s find out!

Hello friends!

Welcome to the very end of January, 2024! I have to admit that January has been a long month, but that’s not what this blog is about! I just wanted to let you know you aren’t alone in thinking January is 6 months long! LOL

Alright! How and Why commitment is so much better than simply deciding to do something? Let’s dive deeper into this topic today.

Deciding to achieve a goal is making a choice, while committing to do everything you can to achieve said goal involves dedicated action and adherence to that choice.

Another way to look at it is deciding is the mental process, while committing is the tangible follow-through. the actual work you put into achieving your goal. Both decisions and commitments play crucial roles in various aspects of goal achievement. However, commitment is often considered more important than decisions for several reasons. I’d love to share three here with you.

1. Commitment leads to real actions

Decisions alone do not help you achieve goals. Commitments to your decisions actually drive the action and implementation of your plans. When you commit to losing weight, you are going to follow all the steps in a particular program and guidance of your physician to bring that desired goal into reality. Commitment leads you to make a meal plan, look ahead a the schedule and make sure you have lunch and snacks packed so you aren’t tempted to stop by the drive-through, and go to the grocery story (not hungry) intentionally to purchase the items on your list and nothing else that you used to buy before your commitment to a healthy lifestyle. Commitment to your plan reminds you daily to be kind to yourself, take care of yourself and reduce your stress because you know that stress eating is a real thing and not just something you used to do in college. Commitment encourages you to take action to make your goal a reality. Are you committed to take action on your goals? Why or why not?

2. Commitment leads to self-trust

I used to think-why bother. I will never actually work on this goal. Why even set new goals? I didn’t have a self-trust issue (well I did, but it didn’t come from thin air). I had a commitment issue. In the past I had set goals on New Year’s Day, at the beginning of Summer, on my birthday, the first day of December, etc. Any opportunity I got that felt like a renewal or a season of change for me, I set goals. I decided to work on a plethora of resolutions; however, I didn’t know the secrete ingredient back then: commitment. I needed commitment to one goal at a time to to build self-trust (or repair/rebuild the trust I had broken with myself by never following through on my goals). When you commit, you take action. When you take action, you get results. When you get your desired results, you begin to trust yourself that you are going to follow through this time around. The secret ingredient was commitment! Let’s add that to your goal achievement journey in 2024, and add a healthy portion of it! Don’t be shy!

3. Commitment leads to overcoming challenges

There is no doubt that every journey has its challenges. It’s normal. It’s to be expected. You want to go to school? You’ll have challenges unique to your education. You want to get married and start a family? Challenges Galore! You want to work at a new company, be the boss of a team of individuals, make the big bucks, you get challenges at every corner. Now it’s not a bad thing. Challenges help us grow. We are meant to push through the dirt and seek the sunshine like a plant peaking its head out from under the ground. Have you ever wondered what a strawberry leaf goes through coming out of the dirt, mulch, cold ground not knowing what’s waiting for it on the outside? It’s amazing to think that there is faith involved in those little leaves that don’t quit. They’ve committed to rise up and expose their young leaves to the sun and simply face the conditions regardless of what they may be. That, my friend, has to be YOU! You’ve got to be willing to push through the dirt, the mulch, the wet and cold ground to come out into the sunshine and begin to grow and produce fruit.

Strawberries are not supposed to produce fruit under ground. That’s the job of a potato. You are not potato. You are a strawberry and you must push through to grow and produce fruit.

Are you willing to overcoming those challenges? Then you must Commit and commit on a daily basis to achieving your goals!

Listen, friend, you’ve got this. You can absolutely do this! Take it one goal at a time-one day at a time. I am here to help you, guide you, push you through it all to come out stronger and on top!

If this message resonates with you at all, I invite you to come to a consultation call with me. Contact me here! I will share with you all the ways that I can help you as a life coach and share with you all the different ways you can work with me. Consultations are not a high pressure sales situations with me. I simply share with you what I offer and ask you to make a decision and then commit to your decision. It’s as simple as that!

I send you all my love,

~Nilo