Enthusiasm Passes, Discipline and Commitment Remain

Where do you get the energy to maintain a long-term goal?

Within an organization, this is often supported and maintained by mechanisms of accountability, competition, and binding controls from stakeholders. But when it comes to personal activities, what sustains them?

Commitment, ideals, and your initial intentions.

A self-built system that automatically continues.

And the ability to stay grounded in all circumstances, from a highly developed connection with oneself. Thinking, deciding, and acting from a state of personal superposition. This is a feeling of being laid back, absolutely relaxed, like someone lounging on the ground amidst endless mountains and forests.

Yes, it's not a state of fervent willpower.

Nor is it a state of existence like a machine.

Rather, it's a state of life, of nurturing, of growth.

You might stray, you might be tempted, but you'll always know the way back.