One of my first posts was on the power of saying no. Now for this, my 101st post (!), consider this:
What are you ready to commit to?
What’s it going to take for you to step over the line into that commitment?
Try this: envision the threshold you’re stepping over. If you need to, put a piece of tape on the floor to be your line, focus on a crack in the woodwork, study a seam in the carpet.
Over here, on this side of the line, is where you are now. Over there, what you’re stepping into: your commitment to action.
Once you cross that line, you’re not coming back. You’ll have made the commitment: you’ll be fully in it.
When you’re ready, on your count – one, two, three – step over your line.
Now that you’re in your newly committed space, what’s possible?
How’s the view?
How can you carry this commitment with you throughout your day-to-day living?
I’d love to hear how this goes for you!
Before specializing as a professional coach in 2004, I spent more than a decade in leadership, management and program development for state and local government and non-profit organizations. Now I get to help leaders and teams have more clarity and ability to stand up for what's important in their work and in their organizations. Working with me, leaders and teams find more meaning and purpose, feel happier and more confident, navigate change and conflict, and work together better.
I like it.
I’ve often done something similar–there was a spot I LOVED, a beautiful and generally quiet spot just off the trails at a nearby state park, where I would go to think things through, and get clear on my priorities again. The place had some personal resonance–I had discovered it at what was a high point in my life, and I was always drawn back. I’d go there when I need to regroup; when I felt I had my bearings again, I would take one last look around, and imagine myself leaving “The Old Me”–the uncommitted, drifting version of myself–as I steps back out of the space. It was one of the few rituals of its type I’ve ever had, and always worked well.