Are you guilty of being a ‘Commitment Yo-yo’ with some area of your life – or your business?
Do you have a series of activities that you enjoy, and may have even taken seriously at one point, but they frequently drop off your radar as the next big ‘shiny thing’ comes your way?
Do you dabble with new ideas without going in to deep? Then you maybe suffering from Commitment Yo-yoing!
Say you spend an hour every couple of days practicing Yoga while watching TV, but you never take a class or turn off the TV to focus on your breath. Instead of giving 100% of your energy to your primary focus, you end up giving 50% of your energy or less. Can you be satisfied with this?
What about your business? Does it consume you (in a positive way)? How do you talk about it with other people – as a hobby or as a growing enterprise about to go places?
I you find yourself juggling a few interests, but always holding back on how much you commit, the first thing to do is decide which interest to treat as primary, and which ones are merely partial commitments.
To overcome yo-yo commitments pick a passion and run with it for 10 weeks and see how it feels. Diminish the other ‘partial passions’ (or energy vampires) you have over that time and see what happens.
That’s why I created the 10-week Business Start-Up Course (and added the daily desk Yoga). If you survive the Course and take the time and energy that comes with filling out all of the worksheets, then you have the time and the commitment to give to a business (and you may just take up yoga too!). If you are half-hearted in your approach then maybe business is not the path for you – just yet. But it helps to know what you are passionate about.
Try the next 10 week Business Start-Up Course starting on September the 1st 2014 and get ready to launch your business by Christmas. The Preparation Workbook you receive after you sign-up to the Course features lots of tools to help you manage your time and get rid of your yo-yo’s and energy vampires!
Are you guilty of being a Commitment Yo-yo?
