What are price are you willing to pay so that you can successfully transform your intention into reality? To receive, you must be willing to give.
Commitment is a measure of the price you are willing to pay, something that you are willing to offer, to put on the line, in exchange for what you really want.
Your life is already full, since you have already allocated all twenty-four hours of each day, all of your energy, and all of your money to the habits, activities and actions that are creating the results you have now.
Whether or not these are the results that you want, you are already committed in some way, consciously or unconsciously, to your current results.
If you want to incorporate a new result into your life, you need to be willing to exchange something of your present situation, something that is currently occupying your time, money and energy, for the creation of a new reality.
Objections come up when either consciously or unconsciously we do not want to change realities.
There is a gap between the real now, and the real future that triggers a fear of letting go of something that is "sure" (no matter how uncomfortable or unwanted it may be), for something that is risky or "unsure".
Objections are simply reactions to change.
There are hundreds of possible objections, however for most people, the standard objections that come up when faced with the possibility of a new reality are: "I don't have enough time!" "I don't have enough money!" "I don't have enough energy!" Your level of commitment to moving forward and creating what you say you want is established by how willing you are to overcome these objections.
And the level of your commitment will directly dictate your probability of success.
One way to overcome these objections is to attempt to argue them away.
Facing objections head-on rarely works, because the ultimate "right" answer is the status-quo - the reality of the present, no matter how uncomfortable, will usually beat the risks of a new reality, in the rational mind anyways.
An easier and more effective way is to overcome these objections by going around them.
You can open a door that bypasses these objections without necessarily going into details about the beliefs behind them.
In this way, you can safely get a taste of a new reality, thereby reducing the perceived risks and diminishing the objections.
Here is an activity to help you determine how much you really want to change, and what you are willing to put on the line in exchange for the new results you really want.
Take three sheets of paper, title the first one TIME, the second one MONEY, the third one ENERGY.
First choose the page that you think is the biggest obstacle for you (for example, "energy").
On that page, write down all of the activities or things where you think that this issue is important (ie.
what are the activities that require a lot of my energy?).
You can list it in any order.
When you have completed your list, then group them into three categories by assigning each activity a priority level from 1 (most important, can't live without it) to 3 (makes life a lot nicer, and I could live without it).
If necessary, copy your list to a new sheet of paper, in the three groups.
Now take your original intention, the result that you say you want.
Does it fit into priority category 1, 2 or 3? Within the activities of the category, which activity can you downgrade to a less-important category to make way for this resolution? By moving that displaced activity down, what is the activity in the less-important category that I have to subsequently downgrade to make room? (like a domino effect - move one activity then the other activities cascade down).
The result? The higher the category that your resolution fits into, the higher your level of commitment becomes.
The displaced activities are what you need to "offer up" in order to make room to create the change you really want.
This is the price you are willing to pay, your "investment" in your new way of being.
By the way, if your intention only fits into category 3, then you are probably not committed enough to change.
Reformat your resolution into a more powerful positive statement (go back to Step 1), and/or drill down further into your fundamental why (go back to Step 2).
Go through this process with the two other objections.
Look for patterns: activities that consume all three resources (time, money and energy).
Once you let go of these time, money and energy leaks, you will find that you have more than enough time, money and energy to create the results you really want, in a way that takes significantly less effort and expense than if you try to force it in an already-full life.