Life is a Commitment Game

Your level of commitment determines the quality of your life

Thomas Oppong
4 min readJul 14, 2022

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The quality of your life depends on the quality of your commitments.

Everyone has at least one goal they’d like to achieve. Maybe you want to buy a house, get promoted at work, master a valuable skill, improve your fitness, start a creative project or start your own business.

Or, maybe you have more lofty goals like becoming a better parent or going on a trip of your dreams. Whatever your goals, the first step is making an explicit commitment to working towards them.

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans,” Peter F. Drucker said.

Commitment is one of the most important qualities you can have in life. It can help you rise above any difficulty, giving you a purpose that drives you forward no matter what happens.

If you have it, you can accomplish anything and everything; if you don’t, then it becomes much more challenging to build a better future or reach your full potential. Many people would rather give up than commit to uncomfortable things that initially seem challenging.

However, if something is holding you back from making a long-term commitment to good habits, it’s not because you are weak-willed or afraid…

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Thomas Oppong

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