What Deserves Your Commitment

Not Everything That Asks For Your Attention Deserves Your Commitment!

Last week, we asked a this question:

What are you committed to?

We talked about Commitment as more than completing a task. A task is something you do. Commitment goes deeper.

It is connected to what matters to you, the principles you choose to live from, and the way you consciously participate in your own Creative Process.

But as I continued thinking about Commitment this week, another question emerged.

What actually deserves my commitment?

Because the truth is, not everything does. Not everything that asks for my attention deserves my commitment. Not every request. Not every idea. Not every problem. Not every opportunity. Not everything I could do. And certainly not everything someone else thinks I should be doing.

That distinction matters.

Our time, attention, energy, and ability to follow through are not unlimited. When we spread ourselves across too many things, we may be busy all day and still feel as though very little is actually moving. So perhaps Commitment also requires discernment.

Before I decide to give something my sustained energy, I can ask:
Does this matter enough to deserve my time, energy, attention, and follow-through?

That question immediately changes things. Because something can be important without being important right now.

Something can be interesting without requiring my commitment. Something can even be a good opportunity and still not be mine. And sometimes the very thing asking the loudest for our attention is not the thing that deserves our deepest commitment.

That is where we have to come back to ourselves.

What matters to me? What supports the life I am creating? What deserves more than a passing thought?
What deserves my willingness to stay with it?

That is a very different way of looking at our choices. Commitment is powerful because it gathers our energy. Instead of scattering ourselves in ten different directions, we begin to decide where our energy belongs. And once we decide that something truly deserves our commitment, we can begin giving it what commitment requires:

Our attention. Our actions. Our follow-through. And sometimes our patience. Because commitment does not mean everything happens immediately. It means we have decided something matters enough that we will continue participating in its creation.

This also helps make the Creative Process feel less overwhelming. I do not have to commit to everything I want to create in my life today. I can ask a much smaller question:

What deserves my commitment now?

Maybe it is your health. Your business. Maybe it is repairing or strengthening a relationship.
How about creating more peace in your life. Or it is finishing something you have been talking about finishing for a very long time. It could simply be giving yourself the time and attention you keep giving everyone else.

There is no universal answer. That is why this is a question only you can answer. But once you do, your choices become clearer.

You can begin looking at your days and asking:
Does what I am doing support what I say deserves my commitment?

And that question can tell us a great deal. Because what deserves our commitment eventually deserves a place in our lives. Not someday. Not when everything is perfect. But through the choices we make now.

So this week I am sitting with this question:
What deserves my commitment?

And perhaps you will sit with it too. Not everything deserves it. But something does!

This Week’s Mantra

I give my time, energy, and attention to what truly matters to me.
I choose what deserves my commitment.
And I follow through.

Many Blessings with Deep Love and Gratitude,
Deb

Deb Foggio
Intuitive Leadership Coach
Systemic Constellations Facilitator
LightWorks Enterprises | The Center for Integrative Well-Being

“I let my soul lead; my system follows.”