what's a good commitment?

When I was younger, I used to think that committing to something would feel oppressive, limiting, restrictive. But I now realize that the opposite is true — that commitment is freeing. It lets you focus . It collapses the need for you to continue considering options endlessly and instead grounds you to where you are, and helps you enjoy the rewards... See more

Problems arise when people associate freedom with a lack of commitments. The kind of freedom that ultimately fulfills and uplifts us comes from making the right kinds of commitments. Only once these commitments are in place can we climb the Y-Axis. In business, if you want the freedom that comes with wealth, you have to commit to a company by inves

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Commitments become easier when you realize that, after enough wandering, the grass is unlikely to be greener, pursuing novelty has diminishing returns, and continuous optimizing comes at the cost of compounding—and nearly everything great compounds

It’s clear that the big choices we make in our life about what to pay attention to and focus on – relationship A or B, career path X or Y – have a profound and important impact on our lives. However, the smaller-scale choices we make, like whether we write for 30 minutes before the kids wake up, matter too. In many ways, much more. It’s important t

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If you make lists of lofty goals, it can be easy to leave them to accumulate, as happens sometimes, into a mountain of to-do ’s and notes and half-forgotten plans. Dreaming alone is seductive, even a little sweet, since it lacks the pain of trying. So it feels proper to prize attempts more than dreams. You should have ideals, but you cannot only lo... See more