The Best-laid Plans … Call for commitment!

Welcome to a new year. If you’re making difficult New Year’s resolutions this year, take heart: people have been struggling with them since early Babylonians started the tradition about 4000 years ago. Their most popular resolution seems to have been to return borrowed farm equipment. Knowing what happens to best-laid

The Commitment Factor Applies to Marriage, Too

He’s afraid of commitment. Maybe she is, too. Commitment in marriage, that is. More and more, our society sees a fear of commitment when it comes to marriage. Both men and women are afraid of tying themselves to another person for life. They are afraid to leave the single life

Teaching Commitment at an Opportune Time

The beginning of a school term is an opportune time to teach commitment. The beginning of a semester is another opportune time to teach commitment. January is an opportune time to teach commitment. All of these are times to rekindle a commitment to moral values in our own hearts and

Daring Commitment to Your Beliefs

Are you afraid to take a stand on what you believe? You say you have beliefs, but do those beliefs obligate you in any way; do they emotionally impel you to action? Are you committed to them? If you are a teacher, your school probably teaches character now, including at

Quotes on “Commitment”

Commitment …begins by gaining ample understanding of a specific pursuit or belief, and then acts to obligate or emotionally compel myself to begin and continue in that pursuit or belief. “You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers .”