What defines you?

I was once asked this very same question by a close friend of mine a couple of years ago. I don't remember what my answer was then but I never expected that her question would make so much impact on me even after all these years.

What defines me?

To answer, quoting Rick Warren... What defines us are commitments. These commitments can either make you or break you but either way, it will define you.

Everyday we are presented with different options or choices. In even less than a second, we can decide to choose whatever we desire. Commitments are very different from choices. Commitments are right choices with accountability. I say accountability because at any rate you have to stick to what you decided. No matter what... That's commitment.

We make good even a lot of poor choices in the course of our lifetime but we only make few commitments. And when we do we have to make sure we make this commitments work and we make it last.

It sounds as if making commitments and keeping them are tough,right? It can be! I sure can attest to that. But you know what? That's life! Life is about commitments. Who says life is full of rainbows anyway?

Now the challenge to all of us is this... What are our commitments? Have we kept these commitments? How do we make it work? How do we make it last?

I sure would have to do my own reflection on these questions but then again everything starts with that...