"Get It Together!"

                                                  

                                                   Commitment to Your Craft

            Ever made a New Years resolution? How many of them did you actually keep? Maybe you made a promise to lose weight, stop smoking or to just sit down and write a story that's been playing out inside your head for years. Now is the time to get it together and become committed to your craft.

            How important is commitment to you? The answer to this question isn't hard to figure out if it's already part of your daily life. I know it's hard for most people to commit to a pair of shoes much less more important things in life.

                        Easier said than done right? Not always. Especially if you visualize what ever you want to accomplish by walking through the process as if it's already completed. I view all of my challenges almost the same way God sees us, not as if we are still in the preliminary stage, but as finished products.

Although our projects might still be in the construction phase, but if we see it as done, it makes the journey far easier to work all the way through to completion.

However, if you want to be successful in every phase of your life, then you must possess strong values, willingness to succeed and the ability to rise above challenges.

Whether you are aware or not, life happens on a daily basis and find yourself consumed by its presence. While in the midst you should anchor in and make the most of it while you have the chance.

            Commitment to anything is important. It speaks of a willing nature and a strong character, an unspoken promise to start what you finish. Many of us are unaware how our everyday existence plays a major role in what we are dedicated to on every level.

You might not think of it on these terms, but it's true. Our daily routines are a testament to our commitment. How we carry out the most basic tasks says everything about our willingness to see each of them through from start to finish.

            This goes double for our creative life. Most of us have full agendas filled with important task that supersede our passions. Nevertheless, the faithfulness you display in your personal life should translate over into your creative one as well.

            Not everyone has a literal checklist that they use to stay on track, but it's okay to use a virtual one, mental notations that helps us to achieve our goals.

            I know that there are days when you can barely keep up with the demands of life, but if you are serious about your craft, will do everything within your power to see a project you've started to completion.

            I believe it is important to challenge ourselves, to make daily goals and try to reach them, obstacles notwithstanding. Even with obstacles, we have to learn to power through them, by taken one step at a time. It may seem as though this isn’t the shortest avenue to what we aspire to, but it is the best and most assured way to see our dreams all the way to fruition and becoming reality.