DAY 107: What it means to make a commitment

On my second day of my 21-days-of-study commitment, I realised that one first point to consider when making a commitment is its practical application, meaning, checking what is that I need to change in my current daily life in order to incorporate my living commitment.

So I looked at my current schedule and daily responsibilities to see what is possible to change to dedicate a few hours of my day to study. I am aware of a pattern within me that consists of planning something with really good intentions based on my current situation, but when the actual day comes there are other points to consider that pop-up as excuses in my mind. Therefore, my time planning needs to be realistic and also quite flexible so that I don't go into the polarity of giving up. For the moment, I have adjusted my after-work planning in order to take the most out of the hours in the evening.

A second important step was to communicate my commitment to my partner so that we can manage our common tasks in a way that supports my decision to have free time to study. An outcome from our conversation was a weekly plan of cooking days!

I am aware that this is a point within me that will support me in other areas of my life, because keeping consistency, as well as being able to motivate me unconditionally, can be a challenge. Finally, it implies real-time self-correction: whenever I see that I am going into exhaustion or frustration, I must stop, breathe and look at what can I do to change, which can include writing on a pattern that repeats, applying self-forgiveness on my self-definitions, investigating my starting point in my decisions, readjusting the perceptions of time (how long it takes me to do certain things), prioritising my tasks and restart my application to make sure that I am living my commitment in self-honesty (as the best for me always and in all ways).