Great things need to be preceded by a great commitment
Every person in this world are used to imagen different kind of good things in life, it could be a great house, having a great car, objects that can only be bought with big amounts of money, everyone dreams about having that kind of life. Nonetheless, many of us are not keen to pay the price of having these things. The price tag isn't just money, it's about all the effort spent by a man in order to have all of that.
World have never seen a success person lacking of compromise, these ones are always decided to get compromised 100% to their goals until make it happen. In case of not being compromised enough, it will be really difficult (more than it is) to make things happen.
Compromise is what keep us concentrated until achieve whatever we have proposed. For everyone, compromise means something different.
For a boxer means to stand up one more time inside the ring in order to beat the other one down.
For a runner it means to run 10 more miles when the energy is totally over.
For a soldier means to go to war without knowing what would happen over there.
If you want to be an effective person, you have to get compromised. The true compromise inspire and attract people with similar goals to join you in your fight. When we want to achieve something really big, almost always we are going to need people with similar thoughts, but you can't do it without being totally compromised because people never feel attracted by those one without the character enough to get compromised.
The curious part is that the majority of people want the perfect circumstances to get compromised with something (whatever it is), but the problem is that circumstances will never be perfects, which lead these people to never do a single thing. The compromise has to precede the actions.
When a person doesn't get engaged to an objective, it could be for one of two reasons: The goal isn't worth, or maybe, the person is the one who isn't worth. Burning desires would lead people to get strongly compromised, only if those people are willing to understand the value of compromise, otherwise not.
And the best way to measure the commitment level is by watching the actions of the person, inasmuch as is really easy to speak a lot of words and not doing anything about it. It's totally different to highlight by all the words said than highlighting by our true actions. Arthur Gordon once said that is easy to speak a lot of words, but is quite hard to live those words day by day.
Once I read about a judge who had won an election in a county, this one said: I want to thank all the 424 people who promised to vote me, I want to thank all the 316 people who said they voted me, I want to thank all the 47 people who came last saturday to vote me, and I want to say thanks to all the 30 people who voted me for real". It's like everyone with their respective commitments, isn't it?
You will find some adversities, obstacles and oppositions never seen before to overcome for sure, but precisely what keep people standing is the level of commitment to the goal. The compromise is the number one enemy of resistence, because is the serious promise which pushes us, raises us up no matter the number of times we have fallen down.
If you want to be in a worthwhile place, you must get committed.
When we talk about commitments, there are 4 kind of people:
Those who don't have goals and don't get committed.
Those who don't know if they could achieve their goals, which leads them to be afraid of compromise.
Those who start to walk towards a goal, but quit when things get harder.
And those who set their own goals, get compromised with them and pay the price so as to make them happen.
You have to know if the goal is worth enough before to start, you have to ask if you would die for your objective. Sometimes we don't get committed with some objectives because those are not big enough or are not the things that we really want, so you have to make sure that's the thing you really want in order not to lose much time.
