There’s a difference between interest and commitment.
I met a couple who told me it had always been their dream to start a home for needy children. I inquired what was keeping them from doing it. They laughed nervously and said they were too old now. I asked what had kept them from doing it when they were younger. They looked like deer caught in headlights. They didn’t have an answer. There’s a huge difference – a mile-wide distance – between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit, when you have the resources and the time, for example. When you’re committed to doing something, you accept no excuses, only results. You find ways – make ways – to get it done. Someone once said that “in order to hold fast to something one must allow oneself to be held to something.” I often wonder at the amount of good that doesn’t get done because interest never gets converted to commitment.
