![]() ![]() ![]() tags: acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth. Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things. If something about your attitude and life-style discourages potential partners, then you may not be aware of the barriers you have constructed against commitment. I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.If you are unable to recover from a failed love relationship, then you may be unable to recognize how your own fears are contributing to your paralysis.If you are very ’picky’ or have a pattern of faultfinding, then, you may fail to take into account how much of this is caused by commitment issues.If you consistently commit yourself to inappropriate or unavailable partners, you may not always see how your conflicts are contributing to a destructive pattern.If you find that you prefer idealized fantasies to flawed human partners, then you may not realize how commitment fears are affecting your life.Instead they are hidden and subtle, clothed in an assortment of disguises. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result. Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed. The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating in work, in play, in love. People often fail to make lasting changes because they don’t commit to one path long enough to see results. Taking responsibility is a commitment to own your life, to self-leadership, growth, and freedom. When you're interested in something, you do it only when it's convenient. Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down. 'Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master.' - Albert Einstein. ![]() There's a difference between interest and commitment. “For some of us, commitment issues are not always out in the open. If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it. ![]()
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