Preparing for Greatness ~ Create a Winning Team

By Becoming a Team Player

There are no half-hearted champions. 

I think many people tend to associate commitment with their emotions.  If they feel the right way, then they can follow through on their commitments.  But true commitment doesn't work that way.  It's not an emotion; it's a character quality that enables us to reach our goals.  Human emotions go up and down all the time, but commitment has to be rock solid.  If you want a solid team - whether it's a business, ball club, marriage or volunteer organization - you must have players who are solidly committed to the team.

Commitment is usually discovered in the midst of adversity.  You will never know the commitment of a team player until things go bad.  The great Vince Lombardi once said, "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

I have come to believe that commitment and talent are not connected.  There is no guarantee that if you find someone who it talented they will have a high level of commitment, and vice versa.  We do not need greater strength, more ability or even more opportunity.  We need to use what we have.

So commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.  When it comes right down to it, commitment is always a matter of choice.

Commitment lasts when it is based on values.  Any time you make choices based on solid life values, then, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.


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