Making commitment can bring big rewards

By Dan Baker

Published: July 1, 2008

Want to have some fun and experience growth in your life at the same time? Come with me. If you will do what I ask for the next five days (without exception), I promise you will have fun, and positive changes will begin to take place in your life. Are you ready?

Each day (for the next five days) make a list of three small tasks you will accomplish during the next 24 hours. Examples might be: shine my black dress shoes; wash the car; call Aunt Martha; do five push-ups; etc. You are making a commitment to yourself when you commit each task to paper. It's imperative that you write nothing down you might not accomplish.

Each day, review what you did with the previous day's list. Place a big check mark next to each of the goals you accomplished. Feel the pride as you realize you made a commitment to yourself and followed through.

Two important things are happening with this exercise. First, you are becoming a goal achiever in your mind, and your self-image is improving with each small goal you accomplish. The second important thing that happens is your black dress shoes get the shining they needed. Get the picture? Now do five more days! Carpe diem.

TIDBIT: "Habit is like an invisible thread: Every time we repeat the act, we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably through thought and act.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Dan Baker is a nationally known speaker and trainer from Oklahoma City. His Web site is www.Dan

Baker.ws.

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