Stay Commited To Your Vision
Life doesn’t care how many times you start a new commitment to someone or something — life only cares about the long game, and so should you.
Commitment. During every waking moment we are faced with a choice. Each choice constitutes a promise; a compromise.
Every time you wake up you are faced with a choice: staying truthful to your vision or neglecting it.
Saying yes to your vision is essential in life, but how many times do we disregard the long term and lose the opportunity to enjoy the payoffs in the long run because they seem far away? This is mainly because most of us think in days, not in decades.
When you start to think on your life in decades rather than days, everything becomes more stable. The urge you feel to ripe the fruits you harvest drastically lowers once you zoom out.
The puzzle of life is that once you commit to a mindset anchored in decades, it challenges you to snap out of this growth mindset begin to emerge. In other words, when you commit to something or someone for the long run — be it a person, a vision, or a mission — life challenges you to see how devoted you truly are.
Examples of this occur in many forms like opportunities to cheat on your loved one, or new business proposals; shiny deals, or going out with your friends rather than sticking to your plan of getting work done due to FOMO.
In the surface, they all seem like once in a lifetime opportunities. They are not. They are just an ivy maze disguised as amazing experiences.
Life doesn’t want you to enter to the ivy maze, but it will definitely show you the entrance to it to push you and stress test your commitment to your vision
Once you commit to a vision, life will test you and push your buttons up until your threshold to give in is passed. Unless you have it in check. Unless you understand that life is testing you and your vision. It wants you to be worthy of the fruits to be riped in the long run.
Commiting is one of the most important qualities of a virtuous person.
However, committing is something — staying committed is a whole different ballgame. Life doesn’t care how many times you have committed to someone or something, life only cares about the long game.
The professional stays committed, the regular starts new commitments each day.
How many times have we all began a new journey? Now let’s ask ourselves how long have we stayed committed to one promise, to one vision?
Whatever is in front of you, whatever commitment you have made with yourself, be wary of your own threshold for giving in to life’s maze.
The paradox of it all is that life wants you to stay committed, while it seems as if it wishes to sway your course. Be wary of the ivy, as it may crawl underneath your feet and make you pivot all around. Stay in your course. Stay committed.
