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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

117 | Les Brown: “What Would Your Life Be Like if You Decided to Keep Your Commitments?”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Les Brown is back to talk about our commitments. Do you keep your word, show up when you say you will, and finish what you start? Find out what aligning your actions with your words can do for your mind, your feelings, and your energy.

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What would your life be like if you decided to keep your commitments?

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And that is the Court of the Day.

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Welcome back to the Court of the Day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

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dot com. Happy Monday to you. Today we've got let's brown back on the show and let's

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us talking about our commitments. I think this is a hugely important topic because these days

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we tend to have challenges when it comes to keeping our commitments. We say one thing and we do

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something completely different. We say we're going to do something for someone for instance,

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like email them something or find out something for them or make a connection and we forget.

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Sometimes we conveniently forget. Sometimes we we legitimately forget but we forget.

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We say we're going to be somewhere and we either flake at the last minute or we show up

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a half hour late and I don't know about you but when I don't keep a commitment, it bugs

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the heck out of me. It kind of has this subtle negative effect on my energy and kind of

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kind of screws up my focus a little bit. And once I actually say okay, I need to get

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this done because it's kind of writing on me a little bit. I feel a whole lot better like

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a weight just gets lifted off of my shoulders. You know, and so since it's Monday,

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I want to lay out a challenge to you between now and next Monday, my challenge is to

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keep every single one of your commitments. Do everything you say you're going to do no

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matter what. Show up on time, keep your word and feel how it feels to act in alignment

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with the words that you choose or what you say you're going to do. Here's less brown.

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Why is it that people are frightened by commitment? Because when you say the word

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commitment, that intimidates a lot of people. Why? Because it means you have to deliver.

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See most people you ask them, hey, look, I like to do this and say, I'll try.

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