Commitment

Commitment

           Some words are very predictive of outcome. The word ‘try’ for example has always told me the outcome has a 50/50 chance of success, at best.
          When I had two teenage daughters and asked them to be home by midnight, I knew the outcome would not be favorable if they said, “We’ll try our best, Dad.” I could only be assured they’d be home on time if they said, “Yes, we’ll do that.”
          John F. Kennedy didn’t say, “We’ll try to go to the moon” and if he had, failure might have been acceptable….at least they ‘tried’.
          Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the moon.” He made a commitment. And America did land a man on the moon.
          The dictionary says to ‘try’ is “to taste, sample, test or make an effort”.
          Testing and trying often fail where commitment succeeds.  Commitment causes us to do all of the ancillary things necessary to see a project or effort succeed.
          Trying simply becomes a self full-filling prophecy when it fails. Commitment makes the occasional failure a valuable learning experience. 
Watch your words, for your words become your thoughts and your thoughts become your actions.
 
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