Commitment & Consistency

Systems create success, randomness creates regret

Commitment

Commitment can sometimes feel like a chore. "Arghh, I told him I would be there for 7pm, but now I really don't feel like going", or "I promised to clean the dishes, but I really can't be bothered".

When you start to establish integrity with yourself, commitment starts to feel less like a chore, and instead be a source of liberation and love. You free yourself from the chaotic uncertainties of your life, and provide yourself with a workable predictable ground to build your life around.

You then create more space for you to do the things you really want.

For example, how often have you had an unplanned day? A day you know there are important things for you to do, but then you get a spontaneous call, find yourself responding to emails, remember to do that thing and then suddenly most of your day is gone. And the thing you really wanted to do, you don't end up doing.

The better you are able to honour your commitment, the more easily be able to commit to the community and its needs.

Instead of feeling like you have to cook, or you have to clean, or you have to water the garden, you will feel a sense of admirable duty. Like a guardian of your commitments, sustaining and honouring them will build into your sense of identity, cultivate a stronger sense of self worth and build trust among your peers. Strengthening the bonds within your community. While supporting you in building your own self esteem.

Consistency

"Systems create success, randomness creates regret" - Jay Shetty

The key to both building integrity, and fulfilling on our commitments come from doing it consistently. How do we ensure we do something consistently? We need to create systems.

Naturally these systems could be more complex, but here are some very basic examples:

My personal Systems:

• Waking up every morning at 6.30am

• Meditate for 30 minutes

• 30 minutes of yoga

• 3 Morning Pages

• 3 Key action points

• 5 Questions for Reflection before bed

Community Systems:

• Everyday we wake up together and do yoga at 7.30am

• We check in daily at 7pm for a singing circle

• We have one weekly check-in for practical's

• We have one weekly check-in for emotional wellbeing

Routine

And navigating and filling up these virtues are better and more easily embodied with routine. According to research done by Samantha J. Heintzelman at Rutgers University, People who tend to engage in routines also rate their lives as more meaningful. That by providing stability, routines may likely free up the brain from detrimental worries. “One aspect is a sense of coherence, of having structure and stability in daily life, that seems to help us make sense of the world around us,” Heintzelman says. “That helps us act in the best ways, the most adaptive ways.”