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Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen

St Mungo, Clifton Beach, Cape Town, South Africa

June 8, 1983



This essay, Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen, is the companion piece to Commitment And The Willingness To Have It All Work Out For Everyone.

It is also the second in a group of three on Commitment:
  1. Commitment And The Willingness To Have It All Work Out For Everyone
  2. Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen
  3. Commitment To Self
It is also the sixth in a group of twelve adapted from my thesis BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING:
  1. Keeping Your Word Means Making Happen What You Said Is Going To Happen
  2. Commitment And The Willingness To Have It All Work Out For Everyone
  3. Keeping Your Word Is A Black And White Issue
  4. Packing My Own Parachute
  5. Fear
  6. Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen
  7. Skydiving
  8. Workability
  9. Participation
  10. BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING
  11. Seeing Is Not Believing (Seeing Is Seeing And Believing Is Believing)
  12. Attention To Detail


Commitment is that quality which, by virtue of its presence alone, creates the space in which keeping your word can happen.

Commitment is not an act of will but rather a condition which exists by virtue of you considering it to be. Commitment is distinct from intention.

While a physical situation encountered intentionally, on purpose, may yet instill intense distrust, there is a natural, absolutely unshakeable trust in the source from whence commitment springs.

No intention is ever totally materialized without commitment. Commitment, by virtue of its presence alone, is that quality which will determine whether you will keep your word and make happen what you said is going to happen, or not.


This essay, Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen, recreates Observation 10: Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen of my thesis, BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING, which is available at

http://www.laurenceplatt.com/breakthrough

The essay BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING introduces the thesis.


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