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Sticky commitments

I often think of commitments as being sticky. It is hard to shake them off. When someone makes a commitment to do something, there is always this nagging feeling that they should do it, and they have a difficult time shaking it off.

Commitments have different levels of stickiness.

Verbal commitments are sticky like jam. They stick, but not a lot.

Written commitments are sticky like grease. It takes some hard work to shake a written commitment, but it can be done.

Public commitments are sticky like Super Glue. Once someone has made a public commitment, it lasts a very long time.

When seeking commitment, verbal is ok, written is better, but a public commitment has by far the greatest impact on behavioural change.

Next post I will explore a simple technique of turning a verbal commitment into a written commitment and then into a public one. In under 60 seconds!

Beyond Attitude Consulting acknowledges we operate in Mi’kma’ki – the unceded territory and ancestral homeland of the Mi’kmaq First Nation. Our relationship is based on a series of Peace and Friendship treaties between the Mi’kmaq First Nation and the Crown, dating from 1725 to 1779. In 1999 the Supreme Court of Canada, in R v Marshall, upheld the 1752 treaty “which promised Indigenous Peoples the right to hunt and fish their lands and establish trade.” 

We also acknowledge that we work and play in many unceded territories and ancestral homelands of Indigenous Peoples across North America, and respect the rights and traditions of the many First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples therein.

We are all Treaty People.

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