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COMMITTING
TO CHANGE
Meeting the Challenge of Change, Part 6
The process of change is a simple one. Decide what
you want, then commit to doing whatever it takes to make that happen.
NEXT declare what you want. Write it down. Make it
specific. How will you recognize it when you actually experience what you
want? Fine tune it to a short, concise statement that holds the essence of
what you want.
Examples: "I am no longer smoking cigarettes
and am instead putting the money I used to spend towards a trip to Italy
next summer."
"I am enjoying my leaner, firmer body that
weighs 125 and I feel vital and fully alive."
"I am grateful for the increase of $10,000 in
my income as compared to 2004 year end."
Next, ask yourself - "Am I willing to commit to
the change I seek?" Remember, it is not important to know HOW you
will make it happen. If the goal is big enough you may not have a clue how
to bring it about. What is important is your intention to have it happen,
not the method of accomplishment.
If you are willing - make the commitment. "I
COMMIT to creating an increase of income of $10,000 as compared with 2004,
and in DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES to make that happen."
Again - you may not know HOW to make that happen.
What you are doing right now is COMMITTING to making it happen. Commitment
informs our actions. It's like a light at the end of the tunnel. It guides
us. When we commit we know where to place our focus, where we are going,
what is our direction.
There is POWER in commitment, because the moment you
make a commitment you start to engage your own creative energies to call
it forward. (See Living by Design
Series for more precise info on this process.)
QUOTES:
"Until one is committed there is 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 meetings and material assistance, which no man
could have dreamt would have come his way."
~ William Hutchison Murray ~
PRACTICALLY SPEAKING:
- I am ready to be/have/do ____
- I am willing to be/have/do ____
- I am a vital, loving person who ____
Feel it in your body as a right now reality.
- Write it down. Make it specific. How will you
recognize it when you actually experience what you want? Fine tune it
to a short, concise statement that holds the essence of what you want.
- Now write your commitment statement with your
non-dominant hand. Doing so gets your commitment into a different part
of the brain.
- Every morning and/or evening write out your
statement with both your left and right hands. This keeps your
commitment alive and in front of you.
- Now - TAKE ACTION - and continue to do whatever
it takes to manifest the change you are seeking.
WONDER QUESTIONS:
- Are you willing to take responsibility for
bringing your commitment in to reality?
- Are you willing to do whatever it takes to
manifest your commitment?
- Are you willing to learn what you need to learn ?
- Are you willing to let go of whatever is in the
way?
- Are you willing to accept that change is a
process and not an event?
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