UGH. If I Have to Pt. 1

What happens when others commit for us?

Usually, it’s a lot easier to forego the commitment in the end. Maybe something came up and we had to call a raincheck, right?

Maybe we never actually wanted to go and were just being polite and letting someone else plan for us. Could be a lot of different things, but really, it doesn’t matter too much.

In the book “Into the Wild” the author shares a reflection from Walt (Chris McCandless’s father), “If you attempted to talk him out of something, he wouldn’t argue. He’d just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted.”

When other people try to tell us to do something, it usually doesn’t end in the way that they would like for it to end.

Why commit to something that someone else wants us to do? Especially when we don’t want to do that particular thing, many people tend to fall short of execution or completion.

Maybe your partner commits the two of you to an event that you really don’t have an interest in. It’s a lot…