Commitment is being dedicated until the ultimate outcome. Consistency is your set of habits and plan that will get you to the outcome.
We need commitment in two batches. One batch to the outcome. The other batch in the promise to yourself that you will work on the thing every single day.
In our multidimensional world we have unlimited possibilities for movement and thought. To make something specific happen, we must make decisions. Out of all the infinite possibilities, we must commit to very few. We must commit in actions, thoughts and goals. Otherwise we are dissipated and ineffective.
We decided upon a recipe to eat. Then off to the kitchen with a million food ingredients in it. We must be specific in picking out what to use in the recipe. Else we fail in the goal.
Once we pick those ingredients, we cant switch to another recipe many times. Not if we expect supper at a certain time.
You must develop the quality of deciding and then not quitting. You must cultivate resolute determination. To find the recipe that works or create from scratch the method of getting what you want.
You must put this on your own shoulders because sometimes, most times, noone will help you. You must rely on and find, your own strength to carry on.
To be confident, you must believe in yourself and you cant believe in a quitter. Physical and mental energy fade. But a deep resolute determination, a conviction in what you believe, is the ember that keeps your fire alive. Daily action and habits is the continual fuel.
You may not think you have the ability to succeed. That this outcome is not in your wheelhouse or that you lack talent. This doesn’t matter. Be unstoppable in your pursuit of what you want. Put in time and effort because it beats lazy talent every day of the week. Many natural athletes, musicians and geniuses stop when then get bored or tired. Then they fade into the abyss.
But the hard worker that perseveres through fatigue, boredom and obstacles often gets the prize. Of course talent plus hard work is the ultimate combo.
In the end, deciding that you will always do the right thing is a switch. It’s on and off. You flip it to on and it stays there. When making a decision between this or that, you choose action towards your destination. No matter how small, every time.
The day you turn the switch to off, your dreams get further away and time is not unlimited. We have an end to our days.
Outcomes do not effect our decision to take action. Good or bad, we do the right thing. We base our pleasure, self-confidence and satisfaction on whether we took action. No matter how small. We ask, when given the choice, did I choose my dreams or comfort and inaction? Did you captain yourself? Lead yourself? Did you continue to TRY?
The point is that commitment is a touchstone for confidence. You know who you are and what you are doing. This eliminates guessing, anxiety, worry, aimlessness and subtlety. You can only be self reliant when you can do things for yourself. And you gain nothing without consistent effort.
Get consistency set in place. Decide and set up habits, because mind, body, desires, and willpower are all subject to fatigue. Daily habits accumulate into outcomes. No matter how fractional the result of these actions.
You can’t wait for opportunity or the right moment when things may be easier. You must persevere through the hard stuff now and take action no matter how you feel.
Once you know what it is you are going for, you must expect hard work and obstacles. You have to know that the ability to work through the hard stuff is the gatekeeper to the best of things.
Instead of shirking the opposition and seeking comfort, face it. Mock it and laugh at a well known adversary.
You expected obstacles. They arrived. Greet them merrily as a friend invited to a game.
Nothing happens until you put out a labour of your mind or your body. That’s the only way something will get done and the rewards received.
Many years I wandered waiting for opportunity to show itself. I wanted to seize opportunity. As though it were a short cut. But I wanted the prize when the real prize is what you learn in the work.
The ability to accomplish goals gives you confidence. This confidence gives you a higher quality of life.
Grit – resolve – perseverance – persistence – grind – adapt – pivot – but never give up. Not until success… which may present itself at some point. Then you will only need another prize to engage your being. You do these things because consciousness needs a focus. Else is entropy and chaos. An idle mind and hands is the devils domain and the that domain is hopelessness and lack of daily purpose.
A lack of direction is death to confidence[1].
The quickest route to failed confidence is to avoid struggle, work and effort. When you know something needs doing, do it hard. One thing at a time only.
Empty the dishwasher, do your laundry, mow the lawn, workout. Tasks need doing and they will only dull your senses and pollute your thoughts until you take care of them.
Make it a habit to do one thing at a time until done. Focus your mind on that one task until it is complete. Then check it off and hit the next thing. One till done. Don’t divide your power, attention, intellect, and physical energy among several things. Hit it like a laser. The weakest ability when focused is stronger than dissipated strength or genius.
Once complete, your mind is free to work on your mission.
Place your confidence in ordinary ability and massive action. Go all in on one thing at a time until complete. Through great effort, things thought impossible by some, become possible for you.
Expect success on a level where it’s like the rising of the sun. Expectation is a catalyst for taking dreams into the realm of reality. This is because great expectations create action.
These actions give results to base future action on.
Over time you zero in on the goal.
All you have to do is learn something and do something with it. Take your lumps or rewards and move forward. Being decisive and taking action on a plan will seldom steer you wrong.
Confidence expects positive results until proven otherwise. Anxious indecision sees potential failure and a waste of time. So it does nothing and gains nothing.
So develop the habit of being strong willed. Be a person who is slow to change their mind and course once a decision is carefully made. This cures a host of worries, anxieties and mental ails. You become solid and stable. At peace instead of blown about by every wind of fancy.
The confident soul has determination, commitment and consistency to an unwavering aim. A mission.
Regret fills the souls of those who don’t.
Determination, commitment and consistency will do anything that can be done in this world. All other talents, circumstances, and opportunities are wasted without them.
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[1] Goal setting improves confidence (external site)