I have had many of the group email or txt me and say they messed up in one way or another. Forgot a day, did not write down their list, lost their 365 book, did not get to a high priority task. I wanted to point out a few features of this program that I think are critical to being successful.
1. When you create your list and pray about it in the morning – you are making a COMMITMENT! Meaning you are committing to get those highly important, inspired tasks done. If you treat your 365 list as a “task” list, then that is what it will be. If you treat it like a list of the most important things you can do to change your life and and the lives of others that you are committing to get done both to yourself and God (or a higher power) then it will be that. A commitment.
2. You are going to fail. I forgot a very important task recently and I felt horrible about it. That stayed with me for a few days. I forgot that the MOST IMPORTANT STEP of the 365 commitment is designed for this purpose. That is to report back in prayer at the end of the day and ask for forgiveness for not getting everything done, for not fulfilling commitments and asking questions about how you can improve or how you can do better tomorrow. The report at the end of the day is becoming very important to me now.
Believe me. I have spent my entire life chasing the perfect system. I have started and stopped 1000s of new ways of improving my life. I have NEVER kept any of these up for more then a few weeks in a row, much less 26 of them. The key process of asking for forgiveness and forgiving myself has helped me be “ok” with a partial setback and helped me wake the next day ready to create a new list and tackle my dreams and ambitions head on.
This is the core reason why when I received the inspiration for this commitment – it was such an impact to me. It finally answered the question for me – “what is the most important daily habit that I could develop?”
Guy Reams (26)
365 Member
