{"id":1843,"date":"2018-05-29T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourcorporateshrink.com\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:39:00","slug":"dont-let-your-ideas-fail-commit-to-achieve-your-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourcorporateshrink.com\/dont-let-your-ideas-fail-commit-to-achieve-your-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Let Your Ideas Fail: Break the Cycle of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have probably observed in life that there are \u2018talkers,\u2019 and there are \u2018doers.\u2019 Quite frankly, we all shift between those two archetypes on a daily basis. There are people who are going to start a business, and there are people who start a business. There are friends who are going to lose weight, and friends who lose weight. You can see the trend here. You are either doing something, or not doing something.\u00a0 This is the difference between using your perceptions and views to drive outcomes versus making a commitment to achieve your professional and personal goals.<\/p>\n

There is no room for hoping, trying, wanting, waiting, attempting, thinking, (fill in the blank) if you want to turn an idea into a personal mission that delivers big outcomes. By committing to an idea, you will be empowered to choose to make an idea happen or not. You will see firsthand the power of a commitment to achieve personal and professional goals and how it can ensure that an idea happens. This Practice is called: Commit.<\/p>\n

I refer to people who have mastered Practice of Commit and the\u00a0other Practices I teach\u00a0as Idea Leaders. They are people you recognize every day in your family, workplace, and community, who seem to make big ideas happen consistently, sometimes over vast periods of time, and despite unfavorable circumstances that would seem to indicate a high likelihood of failure.<\/p>\n

How Perceptions and Views Drive Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n

My breakthrough moment with the power of commitment came during my first performance review at my second job out of college. I got great reviews, 4 or 5 out of 5 scores in everything; except attendance at work. In that area, I was given a 1, indicating very poor performance. I was flabbergasted. I thought that I was excelling at my idea of becoming the best and highest-performing employee at the organization. I was working 50 to 60 hours per week and on the road constantly, taking care of key clients. I was doing the job that I thought was being asked of me. But, I distinctly remember the manager telling me during the review, \u201c The perception is that you just aren\u2019t here.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took me almost a year before I finally absorbed the wisdom of that review and took his comment to heart. Then I could distinguish the power of Commit. What I learned that day is that people\u2019s perceptions and views may not be fact, but they are the reality you and your idea are in. You must be awake and aware of these perceptions when working an idea forward.<\/p>\n

When you have an idea, it is usually created out of a set of views or perceptions you have about something. For example, you have the idea, \u201cI want to start my own business.\u201d You may have come to this idea because of a variety of views gained by what you perceive as your life experience, such as:<\/p>\n