Commit Harder by Uncommitting

“If I wasn’t already involved, how hard would I work to get involved now?” – Greg McKeown

One of my favourite authors, Greg McKeown, writes about the importance of uncommitting to things in order to commit more deeply to the goal that actually matters.

His advice isn’t to just go around uncommitting from everything, but to deliberately contemplate whether you would sign up for something again, if you weren’t already signed up right now.

So often for me, the answer is no.

So at the beginning of this week, I did a clear out of my calendar.

I rescheduled appointments that were too close together.

I questioned if I really needed to complete that annoying task this week (or ever?).

I rearranged my week as if I were scheduling it for my best friend.

Now I’m already looking forward to Monday.