Day 7 - Commitment - Apathy

 Commitment (Goal Number:         )                         Apathy

adopt, action,  consecration, dedication, diligence indifference, passive, wait,

                                                                                           dawdle, lethargy

AWAKE TO THE GENUINE VALUE: 

Commitment leads you to adopt the highest course of action as your life becomes consecrated to living from your own genuine values. Your actions are consistent with your values. Your dedication is exemplary. You are diligent in your efforts to remember the genuine values and to live from all that you can in any given moment. You know that effectiveness and commitment are closely related. You find a great clarity from being focused and committed. Once you give your commitment to any person or project, you can be counted upon to fulfill your promise for you diligently take action that supports your commitment. If something happens that interferes with your commitment, you re-negotiate your agreement to the satisfaction of all concerned. Your commitment leads you to work for a winning solution for everyone.

PARTIALLY ASLEEP TO THE GENUINE VALUE:  

You are committed to a few things fully, more things haphazardly, and most things not at all. It feels like too much effort to live diligently taking action and true to your commitments. Perhaps you have tried periodically and either failed or decided it was not worth the effort. You may be telling yourself that things that matter are too big and you cannot possibly make much of a difference --- so why even bother to try? You look away more than your heart wants you to.

LIVING IN THE IMPOSTOR VALUE: 

You have succumbed to the amnesia mist and are experiencing more apathy than commitment. You look at life through a dismal lens. You think nothing can be done to make things better. You look indifferently at the ways people live who are out of harmony with the genuine ways. You are not actively seeking ways to wake up and help others but are passively killing time and biding your days. You are living in the wait mode rather than in fast forward. At work and at home you dawdle, doing just as little as you can get by with doing. You shrug your shoulders and think there is little worth doing or at least little that would make a difference. You are lethargic, just getting by. You are often bored. You have resigned yourself to life being the way it is.

Look at your life. Which is the most true for you?   ____ 1   _____ 2  _____ 3

 What to do:

DECISION

This may be the moment for your decision about commitment. Imagine what the rest of your life will be like if you live in apathy. Imagine being unable or unwilling to commit to anything noble or worthy or that takes work and effort. Imagine the legacy you leave with such a life. Now imagine you live the rest of your life committed to the highest and best, to giving yourself to making this a better world. Imagine you are committed to following your deepest inner urgings. Imagine others committed to greatness and living with a dedication to life.

Choose. Which do you want for yourself and your world? Which way would you like life to be?

FOCUSING YOUR MIND

Going for the target you have chosen

To tune your mind to commitment, select one or all of the following statements to repeat numerous times to yourself. You may want to put them on note cards and carry  them with you to read many times until you begin to feel them as your own truth.

•     I am more and more comfortable with commitment.

•     Taking appropriate action is a joy.

•     What and who are worthy of my commitment are easier and easier for me to discern.

•     I really enjoy being dedicated to the things that make the center of my being sing.

•     I can hardly imagine that I was once apathetic.

•     As a committed person, I feel so effective. I AM so effective!

•     I enjoy having a dedicated focus in my life.

•     I am an active part of an awakening, improving, more wonderful world.

•     I am committed to greatness --- mine and other’s!

REINFORCING BEHAVIORS

Action steps to take to get off the log

•     Contemplate the things that used to matter a lot to you when you were younger. Write a list. Consider which ones still mean a lot to you. Pick at least one and do something positive in support of it.

•     Knowing that your life can be a model of how the highest human life can be, involve yourself in a project that you totally believe in and model loving commitment.

•     Find a need, gather a team, create a solution and do something wonderful together to fill that need.

•     Look at how you spend your time. Keep a log for a week. Cut down on the time spent on things you cannot feel committed about and expand the time spent on the things for which you feel commitment.

•     Select your most important values and read them daily, affirming commitment to them.

•     What one area, if you would work on it with dedication would most positively change your life? Make a plan to work on that area.

•     Each day for a week write in your journal about the imprisoned greatness waiting to express through you.

•     Take a walk and repeat, for various things that you see as you look around you: I am focused. I am focused as I look at this ______.

•     Write two eulogies for your funeral. One eulogy is from the perspective of the rest of your life lived in apathy, while the other is if you live the rest of your life committed to be all you can be.

•     If you find your life slipping into apathy, stop, take 3 deep breaths, and use one of the focusing statements, repeating it until you are focused. Now, ask yourself what would be the highest thing to do her, listen, trust and act.