Quotable: No Excuses, Only Results
There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
- Art Turock
This quote from Art Turock, motivational speaker and author of Invent Business Opportunities No One Else Can Imagine, is certainly applicable to business leaders and team managers. If they are committed to a company’s vision, they will look for results in measurable metrics that indicate success.
The same concept applies in long-term relationships, but those metrics are a bit fuzzier. Instead of profit margin and turnover, a couple needs to identify which factors are most helpful in showing their relationship’s success. As with many other aspects of a committed relationship, communication is essential in making sure that both partners understand what the other considers as relational success. Possible criteria could include:
- length of the relationship
- health of interactions with family
- demonstrated team-based decision-making
- similar views on family structure and roles
- flexibility of partners in change
- reliability of partners in adversity
The realm of relationships is hard to navigate on these black-and-white terms because emotion is so closely tied, but the concept is still solid. The idea is not to approach the partnership as a business transaction; instead, envision the relationship as a journey to some destination. Where do you want this relationship to take you? What do you want to accomplish with your partner? It is in setting up these milestones and benchmarks that partners can understand how their intention is being realized. Without results, the commitment - in business and in love - is not being served.
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