When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
~François de La Rochefoucauld“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.” –Alfred Adler
There’s all kinds of places you may get stuck in carrying a big creative project to successful completion. One of the hardest parts can be stay committed day in day out until the project gets done.
Commitment is not just saying yes to a project one day when you are inspired. It’s like a marathon. You never get to the finish line feeling good all the way… sometimes it’s just painful.
But the end result is worth it, and leaves you with a deep feeling of accomplishment and exhilaration.
Commitment to a project takes saying yes to a project day after day, whatever the challenges that come up. It’s that ironclad mindset that you are going to do whatever it takes to get there.
To do that you have to be so much in love with your project, that you are willing to go past your comfort zone, risk yourself, and risk failure. It means you have to work tirelessly to put you vision in action. It will require all your courage, patience and endurance.
In a culture that encourages instant gratification and where there are infinite avenues to distraction and diversion, it takes a lot to be committed to a project.
It involves you not just saying yes to the project but no to all the things that can veer you off course. Sometime that may mean saying no to things you normally might want to do, like staying longer at a party when you want to be fresh for your project in the morning.
Or for those of you, who are modern renaissance souls it might involve saying no to a lecture or teleclass on any one of the many topics that fascinate you. Or it may mean for a short while to put aside certain other creative interests to get your present project done.
Some questions to ask yourself when you are considering committing yourself to a big dream project are:
Does the project engage your passion, and give you enough sustained pleasure, that you are motivated to take action, even when the going gets tough?
What kinds of things might you need to do that would require all your capacity of persistence? All your qualities of courage?
What could easily get you off track and distracted from finishing?
What would you have to say yes to achieve this dream project? What would you have to say no to?
Answering these questions in the first phase of a project can help you assess whether you have the necessary commitment to bring your project’s vision to completion.
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