Are you committed??

Are you committed??

Committedness: The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose.

Commitment: The act of binding yourself, intellectually or emotionally, to a definite course of action.

What are you doing with your Life? Would you say that you are living your dream or are you living from hand to mouth, making the best of things; just getting to the next week; what we might call existing, rather than living? If you are living your dream, then well done: you are truly on the road to success.

If you are not living your dream - or even if you have no dream at present - then do not despair because this little blog was written for you. We are going to help you to find your dream, develop it and then to actually achieve it!

To live a truly successful life, you do need to first have a dream. As Carl Sandburg, American historian, poet and novelist put it, "nothing happens unless first a dream."

If you think about it, nothing at all now exists within our experience of physical reality that did not first exist in the mind of the person who made it or brought it into being. In all cases, everything is created twice: as Stephen Covey once put it, the physical creation follows the mental creation. To succeed, you must have a dream, or you may prefer to call it a vision, and you must completely commit yourself to its ultimate fulfilment - that is the essence of the mental creation.

Here is one of the real secrets of success: you should dream big dreams because you can have anything you want! Read that statement again and let it really sink in because it is true that you can have anything you want; you can be anything you want to be and you can do anything you want to do.This may at first seem a bit self-indulgent to you, but your deepest desires constitute a strong indicator of your own life purpose.

What does it mean: To commit yourself to your dream? To illustrate, let me tell you a little about the story of Charles Lindbergh. You know, of course who he was - he was the first person to fly the Atlantic solo - non-stop all the way to Paris. An incredible feat which he eventually accomplished in May 1927. He used to dream of flying across the Atlantic during his long haul flights delivering mail. Once he had imagined the possibility of being the first person to do this, he completely committed himself to its achievement overcoming all kinds of set-backs. He did not allow the negative opinions of the doubters who surrounded him to influence his resolve. When he was unable to purchase the single aircraft in existence that he calculated would be capable of making that momentous journey, he had his own airplane designed and built. He didn't have the money, but he got a group of St Louis businessmen to sponsor him - that's why the plane was called The Spirit of St Louis - now that's commitment.

Once you have your dream, you too need to demonstrate that kind of resolve - and let me tell you plainly - you are capable of it! It requires you to take actions that are congruent with your wishes in order to translate them into reality, but the first step is to have that dream - your own dream, not anyone else's ideas about what is best for you in life - and then absolutely commit yourself to its achievement.