feature · February 2011
How To Commit To The Actions That Make You Money
Showing up and doing the things that expand your business and make you money, that’s what it means to be committed to your business.


Showing up and doing the things that expand your business and make you money, that’s what it means to be committed to your business.
- Reading and writing email
- Endlessly preparing for what you’re going to do next
- Spend time calling the same people over and over again even though you’re not getting the results you want and need?
- Reading and listening to endless accounts of other people’s success and wondering about your own
(HINT: Practicing what you do in order to get better at it, is the key to making commitment easier (no, not easy, but easier).
(If you just read this part and don’t do it, regardless of how much of a good idea you think it is, it won’t do you any good. Commitment is about taking action. Commitment is about taking a stab at something even if we don’t think we know how. Smart is knowing that the second step looks much easier AFTER we’ve taken the first step.)
But GETTING THERE is doing the job and getting better at it. It’s that corny old joke, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. Your business requires that you practice yourself to success. That’s commitment.
Wherever you are today in your business – whatever level of success you’ve achieved, regardless of however long you’ve been at it, you can decide today to approach it differently and tell yourself and the world your new story.
Prepare and practice what you’re going to say. Then go do it. That’s called commitment. It is a COMMITMENT to the ACTIONS that create a flourishing business. Isn’t it time your business flourished?