{"id":2113,"date":"2009-10-13T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2009-10-13T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T14:37:18","slug":"the-commitment-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-commitment-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commitment Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There\u2019s a foolproof test for commitment that goes beyond any verbal claims of commitment: <strong>look at your calendar and your checkbook<\/strong>. Are you spending your time and money in ways that back up what you\u2019re truly committed to? It\u2019s only when you bring your spending into alignment with your dreams that good things begin to happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0If commitment is an on-again off-again thing for you, or if you recoil from the notion altogether, I\u2019d like to suggest you adopt an idea from the no-nonsense Barbara Sher. She asks her students to make \u201ca temporary permanent commitment.\u201d The brilliance of Sher\u2019s idea is that she reminds us that making a commitment doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re stuck forever with the things we\u2019ve committed to. For many of us, that\u2019s a huge relief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0When we make a temporary permanent commitment, we give it our all for a limited period of time. I like the idea of dividing our dreams into 90 Day Projects where we focus on making progress in small, manageable ways day after day. During this time, immerse\u2014don\u2019t dabble. Treat it as a permanent commitment. At the end of the 90 days, take inventory. Want to keep going? Or have you had enough? If the answer is, \u201cI\u2019ve had enough,\u201d then design projects for the next 90 days. And so on and so on and so on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Commitment gives us direction, but it doesn\u2019t guarantee ease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0So take another look at your calendar and checkbook. Do they mirror your commitments? Do they mirror someone else\u2019s ideas about how you should be spending your life?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Remember, too, that making a commitment is just step one. It means nothing unless it\u2019s backed up with concrete action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a foolproof test for commitment that goes beyond any verbal claims of commitment: look at your calendar and your checkbook. Are you spending your time and money in ways that back up what you\u2019re truly committed to? It\u2019s only when you bring your spending into alignment with your dreams that good things begin to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-commitment-test\/\"class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\"  title=\"ReadThe Commitment Test\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-review","jsn-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}