Recently a good friend told me that if you are not a man of your word that you can’t make, let alone keep, commitments. The corollary is that if you make a commitment you should keep it or risk degrading your “word”. A simple example is picking up a friend for work. You make the commitment but the night before you decide that you are not going to work the next day. You could justify not picking up your friend. But what would the impact be? What positive things could result from keeping your commitment? Your friend would upgrade their …read more

Commitment. It’s a word that creates more questions than answers because of the changes and distractions that follow commitments we make. I started this blog in October 2007 while working for a consulting firm specializing in project management software implementations. My rationale for the commitment was 1) it fit with my current position, 2) I wanted to learn about blogging and it’s potential for marketing and communication, plus 3) I like to write. I left the project management consulting firm soon after and had to make a decision. Do I stop blogging?
Stopping so soon after starting, although justifiable by most …read more