There are Five Personal Essentials required to be a successful in your business. The first is intense DESIRE which is based on your ‘why’. That is followed by an unwavering COMMITMENT to your business and to your success. Next is Systematic INVESTMENT both in yourself and your business. That is followed by purposeful PERSPECTIVE that takes you toward your goal And finally unrelenting PERSEVERANCE will keep the dream alive until you begin to enjoy the fruits of your labors. These Five Personal Essentials are each dependent one upon the other. Pay attention to each of them on a daily basis and your success is a tangible reality.
The Essential of Commitment
Commitment in your business is vital to your success. It isrock-solid commitment that keeps you in the disciplined daily actions that are necessary to driving yourself forward. Commitment is the prerequisite to all of the actions that are necessary for your success.
Without Commitment, There Are Only Hopes
Commitment is necessary to bring reality to your desires. How many times have we wished for something to be in our lives only to be wishing for the same thing years later? Why does that happen? It happens because we never make the leap from wishing to committing. Committing to the achievement of a desire is the sole act that will bring your desire to fruition.
Understand The Difference Between Interest And Commitment
When you’re interested you do something when you have the time and the inclination. When you’re committed you do something without fail, systematically, with purpose and dedication, and you don’t give up until you reach your goal. Often we are fooled that our interest is commitment.
Here’s a good test. If you can see yourself continuing to live a happy life without the achievement of your desire, you probably have in interest. If you can barely envision your life without the goal you seek, you probably can develop a commitment to that pursuit.
The caution is NOT to move forward to the INVESTMENT phase until you are sure of your commitment. Investment requires time, money and effort to educate yourself in your chosen pursuit, possibly the purchase of tools, books, systems, equipment, etc to get you to your goal. Don’t waste time, energy and money on a mere interest.
(Certainly this is not to be confused with being interested in say cooking. An interest in cooking can result in reading, studying, purchasing of cooking equipment and tools, time invested in cooking classes, and expenditure of energy to pursue a hobby or even a passion for cooking. There is usually no end goal in mind except to enjoy cooking and become a better cook. The joy is simply in the process of learning and doing. Such ‘interests’ are wonderful and bring about a healthier, more well-rounded and richer life. Just be sure that your business pursuits don’t fall into the same category.)
Stay Committed To Your Goals And Flexible In Your Approach
Commitment is also not to be confused with inflexibility. Commitment is to the achievement of the goal. Often flexibility is required in the getting there. Commitment to a particular system or company or ideology or way of doing something must, when necessary, give way to the achievement of the goal.
Business is all about adapting and changing, learning and growing. When we are new to the business world, we might start down a particular road and then realize that this wasn’t our best path or the best fit for our style or personality. Sometimes moving to another road is appropriate. It is important when making initial choices that we exercise prudence and caution as we investigate our various options. We need to be careful not to suffer from “analysis paralysis” in over-analyzing every possible option eventually which leads to exactly NOTHING getting done. Take reasonable care. Ask lots of questions. Look at other possibilities. Then MAKE A DECISION and move forward.
Care must be taken here not to be running from one tactic or company or philosophy to another and never mastering anything. It is a fine line of decision making and this gets better with experience. Sticking it out with a less-than-perfect system or company or system will bring better results than always changing looking for the perfect solution.
Remember the commitment is to the achievement of the goal. Nothing else.
Most Important Commitment – Don’t Quit
The committed will succeed. It may take you a little longer for some than for others, but in the end, if you are committed you will be successful.
You see as long as you are doing some reasonably right things in this business, you cannot fail. It’s impossible to fail in this business. You might keep doing wrong until you start doing it right but you cannot fail. But you can quit.
Let’s not confuse failure with the lack of income. Lack of satisfactory income may plague you, but financial gain is only one measure of success. If you are committed to your goal, Committed to your daily work ethic and if you continue to learn in everything you do, you are having success. You may have unsatisfactory results in the beginning but as you persist, you will bet better at what you do. When you get better, you will reap better results. Too many people quit in the ‘learning phase’ because they don’t have immediate “success”.
Successful people continue to learn and grow and improve in spite of a perceived failure when measured financially. Such is the result of commitment.
Thomas Edison had a brilliant perspective on “failure” while pursuing the invention of the light bulb. He said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” His was on a journey of commitment. With that kind of commitment, it was indeed impossible for Mr. Edison to fail.
There’s a hundred ways to rationalize a decision to quit. You’re out of money, you’re out of energy, you’re tired of failing, you’ve run out of ideas, you’re tired of the people you’re working with, or your just don’t care enough anymore. Those are all very valid problems that you need to address, adjust and solve. But none of them are grounds for quitting.
Commitment Carries You Forward
Part of the process of commitment is to be sure of and to revisit your WHY. Why are you even starting? If it’s good enough to get started, it’s good enough to keep on working. Your why has to be powerful — Powerful enough to get you through those times when you’re feeling like quitting. Keep your WHY in front of you always. I mean literally in front of you. Write it down and put on your computer, the dashboard of your car, and your bathroom mirror. Let it be your constant companion that keeps you focused on your goal. The more you are focused on your goal the less you will see (and be overwhelmed) by your obstacles.
Commitment is your resolute determination to keep working until. Until what? You are determined to work …until you reach your goal. …until you can quit your job. …until you are making $10,000 a month. …until you arrive at your desired result. Nothing short of those kinds of results will be acceptable to you. Nothing will get in your way. Nothing will cause you to lose faith. Nothing will get between you and your desire.
That is commitment.
Dennis Volz Live 