100 Bloggers - “Commitment”
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In case you wondered where I was yesterday (you DID miss me, didn’t you?), I’ve been invited to join the 100 Bloggers network, and I had to spend a few days gathering my thoughts (it’s sorta like herding cats, only harder and less rewarding). Finally, after three solid days of intense cogitation, a stray neuron fired, and I was off!
So for your edification, here’s an excerpt from my contribution on this month’s topic, commitment:
“What is it, I ask you, about commitment that strikes fear into the hearts of the most courageous people? And why does making a commitment seem to have the power to make otherwise sane and reasonable people run screaming into the night, gibbering wildly about overwhelming doubts, worries and fears?
Why does commitment get such a bad rap, anyway?”
Please click on this link, That Wonderful, Terrible Word, (it’s like.. follow the hand) to read the whole article… and thanks!
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Thanks, Tully, it was fun to write “for someone else” so to speak. I know there’s room for more contributors, so please, give it a whirl - I know you would be a great asset to the bunch.
As for commitment, it’s not much - just one post on a specific topic each month will do it. Surely anyone can manage that. (I know - don’t call you Shirley!)
Congrats on the 100 Bloggers nod!
Troy suggested a while back that I write for 100 Bloggers, I replied to his email and heard nothing back… The part I find really interesting is that at the time I was worried about commitment and whether or not I could commit to writing for another blog when I am falling short of my writing goal on Logical Emotions - and here we have a post from their newest writer on the very subject of Commitment!
Nicely done Bob and all the best!
Thanks, Dennis, for the wonderful addition here. You hit on perhaps the most amazing things about commmitment: the very act of ‘doing’ is enough to start catalyzing results, making further accomplishments even easier.
It’s like an act of faith. Take that first step…
Until one is committed there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
Whatever you do,
or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
W.H. Murry, in
“The Second Himalayan Expedition”
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DM