Mental Strength Tip #14 – Sticking to Your Commitments

Achieving peak personal performance and personal success begins with a mental strength mindset and empowering beliefs.  Personal success starts in the mind and finishes with peak performance…taking massive action. 

This is one in a series of mental strength tips to help start your week of strong so that you can reach you peak performance, personal success and develop your personal empowerment.

I take one subject and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct questions.  The intention of these ‘sessions’ is for you to write the questions in a success journal reflect on them and answer them.

This series of posts is for YOU!  If I’m not able to coach you personally one-on-one, I want you to at least get the benefit of “virtual” coaching.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

To assist you in understanding the importance of making iron clad commitments that will compel you to utilize the full capacity of your mental strength and reach your personal success and peak personal performance.

Let’s Get Started:

The main point of the virtual coaching sessions is to help you see and make the distinction between how the average thinker make commitment’s compared to how mental strength thinkers make commitments.  The basic difference surfaces when things become difficult or an obstacle gets in the way.  The average thinker begins to question their commitment and search for a way out, ask for renegotiation or compromise.  The mental strength thinker rarely if ever waivers on their commitments, and maintains complete mental focus on the task.  If they have to make a change they get permission first (if the task involves another person or persons), if they other party agrees, OK, if not…the mentally strong person still holds to their commitment.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• What does the concept of commitment mean to you?
• What role does commitment play in a person’s quest for personal success, personal performance and fulfillment?
• How committed have you been to achieving your personal success goals thought the course of your life?

Unsupportive Beliefs about Commitment

• Commitments can be flexible
• Commitments can be broken
• Commitments are about doing the best you can

Mental Strength Beliefs About

• A commitment is an iron clad, rock solid promise to be delivered
• Commitments must be met or your credibility is ruined with yourself and others
• Making a commitment means fulfilling the promise no matter what it takes or the cost

Outrageous Questions:

• How many commitments have you kept in your life and how many hove you broken?
• What would your three closest friends, customers or superiors say about your track record of keeping your commitments?
• What has breaking your commitments cost you in terms of self respect?

Reflective Questions:

• How can I help you improve you in keeping ALL your commitments?
• How does keeping your commitments make you feel about yourself?
• What would you have to change in order to keep more of your commitments?

Mental Strength Coaching:

My job here is to help you recognize that delivering on commitments is the foundation of peak personal performance and personal success.  I need to make you aware of the consequences that breaking commitments invokes in terms of your self image and self respect erosion and degradation. 

A person who consistently breaks their commitments (either to themselves or to others) losses a belief in their ability of persistence and will most likely never reaches their personal success.  The true cost of average thinking about commitment is more about what it does to destroy your integrity with yourself than it does to anyone on the outside.

I’d like to emphasize commitments that you make to yourself.  If you had a friend the broke as many commitments to you as you do to yourself, how long would that person be a friend?

Exactly!

Final Thought

There is no compromise when it comes to my coaching around commitment.  I must get you to understand that the fundamental reason that average person is getting nowhere are their beliefs and actions towards commitment.  The average person simply quits when they feel pain.  The mental strength practitioner forges ahead knowing that pain is temporary, but self respect is forever.  I need to pound at the idea that your commitment represents your word, and if your word has a shaky reputation, you will not reach you personal performance potential or personal success

I’d like to finish with a quote:

“There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” ~ Ken Blanchard Quotes

If you’d like to get started on developing radical mental strength for personal development, personal empowerment or personal success, request your Introductory Consultation.

Also, “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” is a fantastic e-book that helps you develop awareness, consciousness and mental strength with a step-by-step plan.

OK…now it’s your turn!  Let me know about your thoughts on this subject in the comments below.