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Motivation

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What's at the root of my fear of commitment?

By Selina Barker on 6 July 2006 at 13:50 in ShiftLogs

I suppose I´ve always thought of commitment as something that will restrict me, trap me. I'll preach to others that 'commitment provides the boundaries within which we experience freedom...blah blah blah' but when it comes down to it I resist it with the best of them.
So having sworn I would get to the root of this resistance I plunged into the shadows where the source of all my resistance lurks and took a look around to see what I could find.
There was a lot to wade through - one thing led to another. I peeled away the layers to discover a web of fears that I had wrapped up with commitment - at the centre of it all was a fear of failure. More

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The Power of Commitment

By Selina Barker on 28 June 2006 at 16:56 in ShiftLogs

Funny how yesterday I wrote ‘Well if there’s one thing I know, to live the life you dream of takes courage and commitment.’
No sooner had I muttered the word ‘commitment’ than it came and hit me straight back in the face. A string of emails later and I had to turn around and admit that ‘ARGH! OK, I DON’T DO COMMITMENT VERY WELL!.’
I contacted 3 people that live the life I dream of (not the 5 that I committed to) asking for advice on how to turn dreams into reality. I was kind of hoping for some lovely ‘oh it’s easy, just have faith, chill out and your perfect job will fall into your lap’. What I got instead was a slap of reality. More

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