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The Game Changer Life

#37: What Real Commitment Looks Like

The Game Changer Life

Dave Anderson

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.9550 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Real commitment is about paying a price, consistently over time, to achieve a goal. Many people often say they're committed (to becoming the best, to making it their best year ever, and more), but are they really? In this episode Dave shares 7 signs of commitment for you to use in determining whether you're truly committed to, or just simply interested in, working towards your most important goals.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about what real

0:18.2

commitment looks like. Oh man, so many people say I'm committed, I'm committed. I want to be number one. I'm committed. I want to talk about what real commitment looks like. Oh, man, so many people say, I'm committed,

0:22.7

I'm committed, I want to be number one, I'm committed, I want to be the best, I'm committed,

0:26.9

I want to have my best year ever. Are they really? Or are they just interested? Are you just

0:32.5

interested? Or are you committed? There's a big difference. Interest means to be curious about. Commit or commitment

0:39.2

means to pledge yourself to something. So are you just curious about what it might be like to be the

0:44.5

best, be number one, or have your best year ever, et cetera? Or are you willing to pledge yourself to it?

0:50.5

Because if you're going to pledge yourself to it, that would indicate you're willing to pay a what?

0:55.1

You're willing to pay a price. I'm going to talk about seven different areas that commitment looks like,

1:00.5

all right? Seven different things you can use as a checklist because if there's any part of your life

1:05.3

that you're saying I'm committed to, you kind of got to go through this list and just really do a checkup

1:10.6

from the neck up, right? Whether you're committed to a relationship, I'm committed to this marriage, I'm committed to. You kind of got to go through this list and just really do a checkup from the

1:11.0

neck up, right? Whether you're committed to a relationship, I'm committed to this marriage,

1:14.6

I'm committed to this job, I'm committed to this goal, whatever. Is it showing up in these seven things?

1:20.7

So we'll get to those in just a moment. But first, now it is time for our,

1:25.2

quick hit Q&A. As I've mentioned before before I have time in these sessions to answer a question

1:31.9

or so and you can post it at Learn to Lead 100 our Twitter at Learn to Lead 100 or Facebook.com

1:39.1

slash the game change your life. I've only done one per episode but this week we have two so I'm I'm going to tackle two. So let's go. Good question, by the way. I think this is really applicable, and that's what we're looking for, by the way. Questions applicable to whether you've read my book Unstoppable, you have a question about it, you have a question about one of these episodes, something that's relevant to what we discuss here. And this first one from Joe is a really

2:00.9

good one. When you've done your morning mindset routine and you're in your zone, which I talk about

2:05.6

that in these episodes and in my book, Unstoppable, how do you handle family or friends who try

2:11.6

to get you out? And oh my goodness, they sure will, won't they? I mean, it's going, first of all,

2:15.6

you've got to know, it's going to happen.

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