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My last post was the first in a four-letter-word series, F.C.E.C. Part 1<\/a>. I provided you with a teaser about an acronym that I\u2019m using to guide my life right now. If you haven\u2019t read that post, feel free to jump over there and then come back. It might help you make sense of this post.<\/p>\n

So after you focus on something (a task, a person, something you want), you need to take the next step and Commit. I\u2019m not talking about the easy kind of commitment where you say you\u2019re going to do something, merely paying lip-service. I mean the deep, emotional commitment that means you really, truly are dedicated to making this happen.<\/p>\n

If focus is what you are going to do, committing defines when and where you are going to accomplish your task. This is the essential second step in the process. Referring back to goals, you can be totally focused on something (\u201cI\u2019m going to get the laundry folded today\u201d), but if you don\u2019t commit to actually doing it you\u2019ll still have piles of laundry all over the room. Come to think of it, that\u2019s where our family\u2019s laundry is right now (harkening back to my idea of how difficult it is for me to say That\u2019s Good Enough<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But seriously, one of the reasons that our laundry doesn\u2019t get folded and put away is that I simply don\u2019t commit to accomplishing that task. It\u2019s not sufficiently important to me, on a regular basis, to get the job done. I can focus on it all I want. Every time I walk by the laundry waiting to be folded I\u2019m focused on it. But when it comes time to do the job…no commitment.<\/p>\n

The other important facet of committing is that you have to bring the task or goal to the forefront and let it take complete control. In F.C.E.C. Part 1, I talked about the misconception of multitasking. The truth is, if you commit to a task, then it really needs to get as much of your attention as it needs to get done. There\u2019s no way around it. If you focus and then commit, you\u2019re pretty far along the cycle.<\/p>\n

As Woody Allen said \u201cEighty percent of success is showing up.<\/a>\u201d The same goes for commitment following focus. Once you\u2019ve got those two completed, you\u2019re probably 80% of the way to finishing the task.<\/p>\n

So give it a whirl today. Try focusing and committing to something that needs done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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