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433 I Finish My Unfinished Business | March 2018 Friday Week 2
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I Finish My Unfinished Business
“Your level of commitment is determined by what it will take to stop you.”
~Doug Sager
One of your greatest superpowers is the resolve to continue when you don’t think you can. Which gets me wanting to ask the question to you,”What does it take for you to give up on something? No seriously, on the goals you’ve set for yourself, how committed are you to seeing them through?” Robert Kiyosaki said “quitting is the easiest thing to do.” And I think he’s right, but quitting destroys us little by little every day. When we give up on who we are and what matters to us, it cripples us.
It destroys beliefs about what we thought we were capable of and who we thought we could be. Quitting ages the body, the mind, and it takes a toll on our soul. And by us quitting when things get hard, it conditions us to believe that it’s easier to give up instead of push through to what matters to us.
I believe we quit because we’ve forgotten our core values. If something mattered to us we would walk to the ends of the earth to obtain it, we would rack our brain to find a solution, and we would be willing to take our souls to the furthest depths of hell to come out on the other side. I believe that is what quitting is; it’s forgetting what matters to us.
Sure there are some things we need to let go of, and I believe those things are the goals that we never were really aligned with. You know the things like taking a job because it would make your parents happy, buying that car or house so you would be seen as successful to other people, or any other outcome you have set your sights on that really wasn’t about your wellbeing and fulfilling the truths of your heart.
But how do you know what you’re meant to be going after, and what you should lay down? For me, it has always been about hearing my intuition. That voice inside my head that calms me when I say what really needs to be said, or that feeling in my body as it relaxes when I come to the truth I know I needed to realize. Because when we feel bad, when we are anxious, when our life is riddled with consistent fear…then we are out of alignment with not only our purpose but our strength and resolve to follow through to what’s most important to us.
In my book I’ll be publishing soon, I talk about getting to know your values—because when you do this, your whole world could be falling down around you, but you would be calm because you know you are on the path you need to be on. You know that you’ve done all you can in keeping yourself aligned with your purposes and life mission. And maybe that’s the best way of remembering what you should lay down, and what you should double down on. It’s the knowledge of not only knowing what your core values are, but then continually asking yourself if you are inline with your core values.
Life is hard. It will hit you in places that hurt the most, and will seemingly laugh at you while doing it. But it’s not that life is trying to break you, life is asking how committed you are to what you say you want. And like the quote at the beginning, “Your level of commitment is determined by what it will take to stop you.”
The Universe is asking how committed you are to what you say you want. Because if something truly matters to you, then your commitment is decided upon what it would take to stop you. And again if you are aligned up with your core values, and you know what matters to you…then nothing will stop you…because the pain of giving up would be greater than the relief of quitting.
To have resolve is to have determination, firmness, or a fixedness of purpose. The Latin root word comes from solv or it’s variant soluth which both mean to loosen. So to have resolve, to be committed to your values, to follow through to your goals, means that you are not only being determined, but you are also loosening the answers along the way. You are making it easier the more you continue to have a firm purpose in your endeavors.
So find what matters to you, get to know your core values, decide your level of commitment…and then follow through. When you align yourself up to your core values, you will not only find that your commitments become more firm, but you become a different, stronger, individual.
Today’s Personal Commitment:
What are your values?
Have you ever even questioned yourself that before?
I will be going further into this subject in my book…but start thinking about who you are at your deepest core. Most people think they know who they are or what matters to them, but I believe most people only assume they know. They haven’t taken the time to sit down and do the hard work of getting to know themselves on that deeper level.
It’s easy to know other people, to see what’s great about them or where they are struggling and why they continue to struggle. We can see that from a mile away when it’s someone else. But to know yourself is a lot harder because you are emotionally connected to your problems. Most times we know what we need to do, but committing to doing what we know we should can be a harder action as we get nervous asking what if. We look at it a decision as the end of the world and ask what if I’m making the wrong choice instead of looking at a problem objectively and making the best choice for ourselves in the moment like the same advice we would have suggested for someone else to do.
So write down the things you’ve quit on that were important to you, and write down why you quit. Ask yourself what your commitment was towards and why you had trouble following through with your commitment.
The greatest distance from where you are now and to being at the goal you wish to be…is only 3 inches away. It’s the space In between your ears. Your mind will be the biggest helper or destroyer of your resolve towards your goals. So when you know your values and look to live within them, your success rates will increase exponentially.
I’ll leave you with a quote to help this principle settle more easily into your mind: “In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.” John Bytheway
I Finish My Unfinished Business
Thanks for listening. I'm sending great energy your way as we become Strong Within together,
Personal Development Life Coach-
Chris O'Hearn
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