The wealth of Commitment

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Your character could earn you a man's trust; competence could put you on his payroll; a credible relationship could bring you before great men and systems of leverages; but to stay afloat, you need to be committed.

Commitment is the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause or activity, etc. To be committed is to be devoted, or disciplined.

Competence can set you on the path to success, but it's your commitment that will ensure you hit that target.

No vision is sufficient in itself to bring about its actualization. Every vision or dream is at the mercy of the commitment of its visioneer(s). Commitment is an integral variable in the equation of your success in any and every endeavor.

You may want to pray for an hour every day, that is a wonderful aspiration, but you will need the discipline of commitment to make it a reality.
Your dream of having an end-of-year account balance of XYZ can only be possible when you are committed to meeting the monthly, weekly, and daily targets.
That desire of having a well-planned out day executed to the letter is only a commitment away from becoming a reality.
Apply this principle to your family life, relationship, career, business and you will see that success is not as unattainable as indiscipline makes it appear.

What is the opportunity cost of commitment?
True, everything of value comes with a price tag on it. The case is not different with your commitment that guarantees success. By opportunity cost, we seek to examine the benefits you tend to deprive yourself of, in pursuit of your goals.

1. Time:
The most universal element of nature that is evenly distributed across all strata and classification of humanity is time. The poor and the rich both have an equal amount of it. However, the wrongful or rightful application of this scarce resource is what determines how much success we can achieve on our set objectives. To be committed implies a sacrifice of your idle time and a diligent devotion of same towards every activity that will make your dream a reality.
That the poor seem to have so much time on their hands, explains their position at the bottom of the food chain. 
Learn to assign your tome appropriately and justifiably. Stick to the timetable judiciously. You'll be surprised how many results you could accomplish in such little time. 
Every forest is a combination of trees that started as seeds and grew over time.

2. Friends and family:
Painful as it may seem, these forms of relationship have been a major cause of setbacks for a lot of aspiring visioneers. 
It is good to have friends, just as it is important to pay attention to family. However, if in the final analysis, your time spent with friends and family is the reason your dream suffered a stillbirth, your decision-making process didn't do you much good.
Most times, you need to shut the door to friends and limit your interface with family, in order to give your vision and destiny the undivided attention it deserves.
Friends and family will always be there, but that vision is time-bound.
If your friends left you because you rescheduled a planned outing, just to cross some Ts and dot more Is, then they were never meant to be in your life.
Your friends and family, beyond being your confidentts and companions, ought to spur you to your maximum potentials.

3. Distractions:
In examining the concept of distraction in this context, I would like you to allow your mind to think of any and everything that has been taking your focus off the mark. It could be that television series; your phone (I'm sure, I just incurred your wrath on that); even your hobbies; pursuing too many dreams at the same time (you may appear busy but you're dissipating scarce energy you should have concentrated to achieve one singular objective per time.
As we would always say, starve your distraction and feed your focus.
I've thought it through and from my contemplations, concluded that resources aren't truly scarce, they are just poorly managed. 

This is just three out of the many opportunity costs of our commitment.

If that vision is truly worth the prize, then it is worth the price.





Grace and Mercy!!!
Amb. Emmanuel Etukudo
Kingdom Wealth Ambassador


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