{"id":4917,"date":"2024-08-23T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/action-follows-commitment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:38","slug":"action-follows-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/action-follows-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Action follows commitment.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Action follows commitment. <\/p>\n

I had a revelation about a decade ago. I had been stuck in a rut, where I kept doing the same things, but I didn’t know how make a change to start something new. Eventually I realized that if I just decided to do something, I would figure out the next steps. <\/p>\n

It started with me wondering if I could learn to snowboard. Obvious first step – take a “first-time snowboarder” lesson with rental equipment included. I liked it enough to take a second lesson. And another. Eventually I bought my own equipment, and kept going because I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Later that year, I wondered if I could go bikepacking. I had bought a touring bike with racks so the bike could handle it – could I? Eventually I went to REI, asked some questions, bought a bunch of lightweight camping equipment, and biked to a nearby campground to camp overnight. No problem. A week or two later, I did a week-long bikepacking trip down the coast of California through Monterey, Big Sur and on down to Santa Barbara. It was amazing.<\/p>\n

A few months after that, a friend and I made plans to visit India for a couple weeks over the holidays. My friend dropped out, which made me almost quit because I had never traveled internationally by myself, and India intimidated me. But I wondered whether I could figure it out. So I went. I had no plan, just got on the plane with a Lonely Planet and a hotel booked for my first night. I figured the worst case scenario is I spent some money to get an early plane ticket home. Instead, I had a fantastic experience sightseeing all around India. <\/p>\n

On the flight back from India, I was journaling about my experience and realized I had a new superpower: if I decided I was going to do something, I would figure out how to do it (this is especially true now, as there are YouTube or online tutorials available for almost everything). In the years since, I became a coach and solopreneur, I became a parent, I wrote a book, and now I’m launching a new class this fall (click the link in my profile!). But it all stemmed from adopting the belief that I could learn to do something new.<\/p>\n

The biggest blocker to change is the stories we tell ourselves about our identity. “I could never…” or “that’s not who I am”. <\/p>\n

It’s not…until you decide it is. <\/p>\n

When you make a commitment to a change, you will figure out the next steps to become the person who embodies that change. <\/p>\n

What commitments do you want to make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Action follows commitment. I had a revelation about a decade ago. I had been stuck in a rut, where I kept doing the same things, but I didn’t know how make a change to start something new. Eventually I realized that if I just decided to do something, I would figure out the next steps….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4986,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}