Commitments reveal you’re willing to risk for them. Goals feel productive without threatening identity. Commitments force action when comfort, certainty, or approval are on the line.

As long as change stays hypothetical, nothing has to shift. Commitment collapses the future into now and requires a new version of you to show up.

We often call things "hard" when they're simply unfamiliar, uncomfortable, or different from our current identity. The real challenge often isn’t the task, it’s our rigidity, our ego’s refusal to bend. Growth doesn’t always require more strength; it requires more flexibility.