Like many other concepts (power, discipline or faith), commitment is something none of us lack.  The question is: What is the quality of your commitment?

Just because you got out of bed doesn’t indicate anything about you.  How did you get out of bed?  Were you motivated, forced or driven by habit to leave your cozy place of rest?  This says something.

When you spoke to your children about their seemingly non-stop onslaught of not-listening, were you on autopilot--just saying words?  Did you carefully engage their hearts and minds in hopes of better reaching them and teaching them?  Autopilot/default and careful engagement are very different ways of being committed to communicate.  They will certainly garner different outcomes.

When you were last intimate with your partner or when you last ate…when you last did your exercise routine did you just do what you are “supposed to do”—what you feel obligated to do?  Action from obligation will get you to the gym but it won’t get you the results you’re after in the time you want and it certainly won’t help you experience the kind of life you were after when you made the commitment to go to the gym in the first place.

Apathy can drive action (and corresponding results) just as inspiration can.  Maybe the real question is: How committed are you to considering the quality of your commitments before you do something? 

Happy Monday,

RR