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Commitment to New Behaviours

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I committed to play soccer.
My 5 year old knows all about commitment.

This morning he came to me and asked if I would go outside and play soccer with him. As it was a bit chilly(3c), I said “Yes, but when the temperature climbs to 10c.” He said “Promise?” And I said “Yes.”

So then he watched the thermometer, checking it every 10 minutes or so, telling me what the temperature was, and reminding me of the commitment. “It’s 8 degrees, Daddy. You said we would play soccer when it is 10. Just 2 more degrees.”

When it warmed up to 10, I had no choice. I was committed. He had strategically forced me into the behaviour, and I was out there playing soccer with him. Not that I didn’t enjoy it anyway. Good thing, because he had given me no choice.

When trying to get people to adopt new behaviours, take a tip from a five-year old. Make them promise!

More about commitment in the next few posts.

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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