• About Me
  • Books
    • The Telling of Ella
  • Short Stories
    • Making Our Way to California
  • What I'm Reading
    • Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
  • Blog
  • My Media
    • Podcast
  • About Me
  • Books
    • The Telling of Ella
  • Short Stories
    • Making Our Way to California
  • What I'm Reading
    • Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
  • Blog
  • My Media
    • Podcast

Miguel Carrillo

Commitments: 2017

January 02, 2017  /  Miguel Carrillo

I’ve chosen the word commitment over resolution because in my warped little mind words matter. I’ve resolved plenty but my success rate on those resolutions has been bleak. So I am employing the power of semantics to fool my mind. My commitments are as follows:

A whole lot more engagement on social media. Taking that first step, simply joining social, was a huge accomplishment but now comes the difficult step of being social. I’m great at face to face, in fact, I prefer it. Attaching some quick quip to someone else’s ongoing conversation seems invasive to me, like a man yelling out his opinion from a window at his neighbor’s dinner party, unsolicited and overestimated in value. Yet, I understand that the medium exists to share one’s perspective, valuable or not. Achieving a higher level of engagement is going to be very awkward for me but it is something I must learn to do and a challenge I look forward to tackling.

Create a schedule. I have a lot to do and all day to do it. The issue with that circumstance is prioritization. I am terrible at sticking to a schedule. I’ve developed a strong distaste for authority and the rigidity of a schedule stirs up that disgust. But I know creating and sticking to a schedule will allow me to maximize the time I have and do good work on multiple projects. Creating when you’re inspired is great but creating when there are no words is the mark of a professional.

That’s it. Two powerful commitments that I know can change my life and will directly determine my success. It isn’t about having a list of tweaks and improvements, it’s about fundamentally changing my philosophy and approach.

So I commit to you, the Universe, that I will be a much more active player on social media and I will suffer through the rigor of a schedule in order to take the next step in my evolution.

Here’s to 2017!

1 Comment 0 Likes
tags / Self-Improvement, Personal Growth, Commitment, Self-Reflection, Life Lessons
Newer  /  January 17, 2017
Writer’s Blocks
Older December 30, 2016
A Year in Review: 2016