Everything is a direct response of the self. Until we commit, nothing else commits. Our own uncertainties are reflected and proportionate in the things that present themselves to us.

We replicate what we find. Commitment is of the mind. Commitment forms the basis of the path we stick to. We cannot commit whilst considering other options.

If I walk down a street I have to walk a given path. I cannot walk five paths at the same time, it won’t work; the closest will be to walk one after the other.

My personal fear is of decision making; what if I’ve chosen the wrong path? (What if I’ve chosen the right path?) There will always be a better route when you commit to “one thing” – it’s like the other options knew you made a decision and start calling you with better offers.

The best decision making process acknowledges commitment to one path makes the others more readily attractive.

To continually wander round streets wondering at the other (perhaps better?) routes is futile. Know why you took the route you did and do with doubt what you do with rubbish, bin it. Physically and mentally you’re better reaching your destination (even if don’t get what you’d planned), knowing you made a decision, took action and stuck to it than you ever could be sitting by the sidelines gazing at the infinite possibilities yet never knowing existentially what the potential outcomes could bring. Destinations can be reached both physically and mentally but we live in a physical universe.

There will always be potential in every choice of what we could have done in hindsight but hindsight means ‘after the event has occurred’. A decision not taken is a decision not known. If I can’t decide on a path I will never know the outcome.

Commitment is the ultimate trust of a process, allowing it to unfold naturally and taking appropriate action where necessary while all the time knowing why and what made you take that decision and having the confidence and trust in acknowledging and accepting the consequences that follow.

Tags: action, commit, commitment, decision making, leann rimes, path, route, trust

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