Last Thursday I went to a meetup of entrepreneurs.
At one point, we started to discuss the turn-out: about 16 people had RSVPed online, but only 6 people had shown up.
My friend, Kuba, figured it out quickly: everyone who was there had committed to another person.
I had told Kuba I would come. He had told me the same.
Another guy had told his friend. And his friend the same.
And the same story with the other two people.
Everyone else, they just clicked a button online, but then when the hour came, they changed their minds and didn’t come.
And this is the difference between goals and commitments.
When you have a goal, you make a promise to yourself.
Sometimes you keep it.
But a lot of times you don’t.
But when you make a commitment, you make a promise to someone else, and this works MUCH better than traditional goal setting.
This is according to a new research study by Dominican University where they discovered that people who committed to another person were almost twice as successful in achieving their goals as those who simply wrote down there goals.
And that is maybe the #1 benefit of working with a coach.
We make a plan to improve your English.
You commit to the plan.
And then you do the plan.
Because you know that next week I’ll ask you, How did your plan go?
Magic.