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Commitment is something that I’ve been thinking about recently. This word can be applied in many different situations, but I want to emphasize the significance of being committed (not relationship wise, but personal growth).

Think about your daily life and how much of it you spend doing different activities. How much of your day do you devote to personal growth and achieving goals that you set in your head? Probably not as much time as necessary to reach your goals properly. This is the reason not everyone is meant to be a millionaire; be the fittest and strongest or however you define success.

As normal adult people in the west, we all have somewhat similar daily lives. We go to work for 8-10 hours per day. Some might have something to do for another couple hours after or before work such as hanging out with friends, socializing, going to the gym, or some type of hobby. However, once we get home we are mostly glued to our screens watching things that don’t have any value other than entertainment which is arguable too. Now imagine giving up all of your daily mainly pointless dopamine infusions so you can concentrate and commit to a goal that you have.

Commitment is somewhat of a loose word and can be translated in different ways, but it just means you give up certain things for this one other thing. Let’s say someone wants to be a game developer because they love games and have taken a few coding courses which they enjoyed. Now imagine giving up a lot of your daily life to work on your coding. Instead of watching youtube, playing games, scrolling through instagram, or binging netflix you learn more about coding and start experimenting and practicing for a few hours every day. Here is a good analogy: if you have a 400 page book, it takes 400 pages to complete it right?! Easy! What if you only read a couple pages once in a while? It can take months or even years to finish this one little book. If you commit yourself to reading 40 pages every night then you’re done in only 10 days.

Now imagine you get paid $1 for every page you read and you are able to read 500 pages every day, but it takes you 10 full hours. If you did this every single day you would have made $1,000,000 in ONLY 5.5 years. Being honest with yourself, do you have the will and commitment it takes to do this? Probably not. Going back to reading once in a while, imagine trying to read 1,000,000 pages and you only read a few pages here and there. You will never reach 1,000,000 pages reading a page here and there! It is the sad truth. This is the very reason not everyone finds success. Most people want to and are surely capable of becoming millionaires, but only the 1% are motivated enough to achieve it. Now don’t get me wrong, success is not always money. Different people have different aspirations and definitions of success. However, no matter what you want, the road to get there requires your full undivided attention. Ahhhh attention! There’s something we all have a short span of thanks to short form content.

To be truly committed to something takes a lot of will power which most people don’t have, unfortunately. I know this one person who is truly committed to his craft and his daily life is absolutely different. He wakes up and after his morning routine he gets to his computer and is on there all day taking breaks every couple hours. He does not do anything at all other than sleep, work, eat, exercise, repeat. This is every single weekday. This means no scrolling, no watching random videos, no movies, no wasting time worrying about things out of his control, no phone, NOTHING except working on his projects. This is incredible will power, sacrifice, and commitment! Sure he lets loose during the weekend as he should! (And yes, not everyone has the same lifestyle or opportunities which I totally understand. The point is that we do waste most of our free time doing useless things such as scrolling!)

I know this blog might seem a little negative, but there is no moving forward if we cannot accept the truth. The truth is that most people in the west are too distracted by random pointless things and life basically flashes by.

What do you think? Could you imagine being truly 100% devoted to something?

Thank you for reading