Here we are over half way through another year! It seems to me that time seems to move more and more quickly every year, I wonder if that’s just because I am marginally over 25?

It won’t be long and once again we will be making those all important New Year’s resolutions. It will be time to sit and reflect on our year’s results and to set our objectives for the next 12 months.

While we are on that subject, why do you think it is that of all the people that set New Year’s resolutions or goals less than 3% actually do what they say they are going to do and achieve them?

Why is it that many of us make commitments and we just don’t stick to them?

It’s very easy to verbally commit to doing things or going places isn’t it. Ever been out with a group of friends you’ve had a few drinks and some suggests that you should all get together for a dinner party and you say hey that’s great count me in! Then the next day you look at your calendar and think, I’ve got a couple of things on in the next week or two, don’t want to push myself to hard, so I won’t go to the dinner party that was talked about last night? I’m just going to skip it, breaking your commitment.

Perhaps you have committed to go on a particular outing with someone, and the weathers not quite as nice as you would like it to be there’s a bit of a breeze up, so you decide no I won’t go the weather isn’t good enough!

Maybe you or someone you know has committed to losing weight and getting fit, and yet month after month your weight stays the same and the only parts of your body that can really pass a fitness test are your fingers from using a keyboard or the remote control!  Why is that? When you really want to get fit and lose weight!

What about your Network Marketing business do you stick to the goals and commitments you make? Do you deliberately set yourself a target to reach each month and when the end of the month comes around does your business reflect your results or your excuses?

The majority of people who make commitments and don’t keep them do so because it is easier in many cases not to do something. Let’s say for instance its cold and you are supposed to be going to your monthly Network Marketing Business Opportunity meeting, you haven’t got a guest to take some of your team will be there so they can give you a brief of what transpires at the meeting, so you don’t really need to go. After all you really don’t like the cold and the heater is on at home so it’s easier to stay home and keep warm isn’t it?

Creating success in Network Marketing or in any endeavour in life we must make commitments and stick to them.

I hear time after time people at Network Marketing meetings say things like the person who was on stage speaking was lucky because they have been in the business a long time and they have sponsored a whole lot of great people that help them be successful.

One thing I can tell you is the person who was on stage most likely made a commitment to become successful and when it wasn’t convenient or perhaps it was little uncomfortable they still did what they needed to do anyway, they kept their commitment.

I guarantee that the person on stage committed to their own success and didn’t use “conditions or circumstances” as their reasons why they couldn’t do something, they would have used them for the reasons why they would do something!

So let me ask you how committed are you? Do you stick to your commitments every time no matter what?

I used to make lots’ of excuses and give lots of reasons for not following through on many of my commitments. In many cases my real reason for not following through on my commitments was fear, I was fearful that I wouldn’t get it right or that I would look silly, then one day I heard the late and very great Bob Schmidt say, “in the Network Marketing Industry you can make money and you can make excuses but you can’t do both”

The lights really went on for me and I really got what he meant. I wanted to make money so I knew it was time to stop making excuses and start keeping my commitment to myself to become successful which meant learning to do the things I needed to do so that I felt confident instead of fearful.

So if like me you find making the commitment easy but keeping it a little more challenging, get yourself a “Buddy” a friend that will hold you accountable for keeping your commitments, make it a game, find some way of making everything you need to do fun!

You see that’s the kind of action successful people take they find ways to make things happen and keep them on track. They find ways to create habits like keeping their commitments, they under promise and over deliver and you can too if you really want to!

So let me ask you Just how committed are you?

Yours in Success

Linda Cargill-Selfe