Commitment – The Secret Key To Success
Why is commitment key? 
Well let me tell you first that commitment is one of the keys to success and goes hand in hand with improving the self.
People nowadays find it hard to commit to certain things as there are many distractions out there to pull them away from what they originally set out to do.
You can sit here reading this right now and I am sure that you have experienced starting out with something that you really wanted to do and achieve, then after a month or so you become side lined and then that was it, you got distracted or disheartened and didn’t follow through with what you wanted so much.
I have always found that you will not achieve much if you do not stay committed on what you really want.
First of all don’t worry too much about it, as we all have done this before. The key is to make a change to your present as you cannot change your past.
The good news is you can sit here and read this and know that you have kept a great commitment as well, whether it’s exercising more often, eating more healthily, having a great long term relationship with someone or committing to a job that you love. Whatever it is I know that you have experienced the feeling of commitment in your life.
I have had the great opportunity to meet and train with some of the best martial artist’s around on this spinning planet. The attitude they have towards their training is inspiring for millions of people out their wanting to achieve what they have in their lives. The only problem is most people see only from an outsider’s point of view, and do not realise how much dedication and commitment it takes to get to that kind of level.
But is it possible? Yes it is. I see it as if they can do it why can’t I?
Will smith the famous actor who has been in countless blockbuster films once said in an interview I remember listening to. The interviewer asks Will how he had become so successful with all of the other talent out there in the world. Will simply replied with the amount of drive he has inside of him and how he knows that he out works everyone else in his field.
He says that when the others are sleeping he’s working and when the others are eating he’s working.
Will smith obviously shows that he has great commitment and he thinks that there is a difference between talented people and skilled people. Talented people are the ones that are more born with this, but the skilled people which he says that he is, are the ones that have worked the most on developing their skill over a long period of time. What does this all come down to in the end? You guessed it… commitment!
I totally agree with this, I hear lots of people saying how great they are going to be at martial arts and they only train 2 maybe 3 times a week. Understand that the best are training 3 times a day!
Now that doesn’t mean dive into things training 3 times a day straight away at something that you want to become good at. It does take time to lead up to this and we must condition our mind and body to the best we can gradually.
Commitment is a key factor in successfully achieving goals in life, if you do not have the combination of taking action and staying committed to those goals you can kiss them goodbye.
You will always find that the most successful people in the world are the ones who are most committed to what they want in life.
In the final words realise that there really is no big secret behind being hugely successful in anything you want. But alot of people simply do not realise about the importance of commitment to anything. As long as you stay committed to what you want and believe in yourself you will improve immensely within your life.
All the best,
Richard Huntley
