Your level of commitment will most likely determine your level of success. The greater your emotional involvement, the easier it is to remain committed. This is true for anything in life including marriage, family, business, faith, etc. It is this level of commitment fueled by your emotional desire that sustains you through tough, challenging times, times of despair; the stuff of life that can sometimes rock even the most committed of us.
This level of commitment which is fueled by that strong emotional drive must be enhanced and nurtured every day. Some days it is so easy to love your spouse, your job, your religious faith, etc., while sometimes it takes great effort. A great example can be raising teenagers. There is a time when the children are little and they are so much fun; however, for many, if not for most of us, when the kids enter into their teen years, it can be very difficult at best to deal with the emotional issues they are going through. It is during these times that they need our love the most and our commitment is also tested the most. Usually, there is a great payoff when your children become their own person and are accomplishing their goals and dreams, and they become a definite source of pleasure.
It is exactly the same in business where we are all tested at times, and only our level of commitment, supported by the strong emotion we must have for what we do that carries us through difficult times. Yet the payoff, again, is so worth it as you see your business and personal success rise to unprecedented levels after overcoming great adversity. As the president of the first company I was with used to say, “The first step to greatness is total commitment”. I would add that the first step to total commitment is total emotional involvement, call it absolute passion for whatever you are doing. Develop that passion, that emotional involvement and you will likely experience a level of success and freedom that may have been heretofore missing from every aspect of your life.
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