In this next module, we are going to focus specifically on commitment. Because now that you have a plan that will lead you to learn a completely new skill, you need to commit yourself to practice every single day. Because if you don't, you will never learn that specific skill of course. And it's really important to create a habit of practicing and learning every single day, even if it's just for 10 or 15 or 30 minutes, whatever, whatever you can, but you need to ensure you practice every single day if you want to build a new habit and if you really want to learn a new skill. So the first advice I've got for you, in order to commit yourself to learn a new skill Is to plan your day. So right everything, everything you need to get done to the next day.

Those can be Work, Work projects, chores you have to do at home. Whatever you are working on, just write everything you need to get done the next day, also meetings and things you have, and block periods of time to do those things. So let's say you need to finish a work project block, for example, two hours in the morning from 9am to 11pm. To complete that project in in those hours, you only work on that project, you focus your attention, specifically in finishing that project. And you do the same thing about blocking periods of time with all the tasks you have to do. So if you have a meeting, you will block 30 minutes or one hour, whatever have you Time to go to that meeting at specific time.

And the cool thing is that you are going also to block a period of your time to practice and learn your new skill. And again, like I said, there's no, there's no right amount of time that you should practice, you are the one deciding how much time you want to dedicate to learn this new skill. But the important thing here is to to build an habit. And that habit will be really important in order to progress. But to build a habit, you need to commit yourself to practice every single day. So if you have to go, you really have to go to the meeting.

You also really have to practice and to learn that new skill in that day, and those can be 10 minutes, 1530 minutes, one hour, whatever you can, and depends of course in your availability, but it's really important to work on that every single day. And if you can try to learn The new skill always in the same period of day, because it will be easier for you to associate that period of day to your skill, the skill you want to learn. And it will be easier to commit and to dedicate time to that specific skill. So let's say you always practice in after lunch. So after lunch, we'll remember well, I need to go practice. And if you do this every single day in the same time, it will be easier for you to get used to it.

But if you can't, if you have a difficult schedule to manage, then it's completely okay. Just make sure you work on your goal, in this case, to learn a new skill every single day. Another thing that can really help you to commit is to reward yourself and your brain associates rewards With pleasure. And if you do something that will give your brain pleasure, it will like it and it will force you to do that thing. So let's say that you create Need to reward that is each time you practice every day, you will be able to watch a Netflix movie or your you will be able to watch a game of thrones episode. So you only watch that Game of Thrones episode if right if you practice your new skill, and your brain will think and will associate the activity of practicing your new skill with the reward of watching a game of thrones episode, which is something you love.

So if you associate and if you reward yourself for something you did, you will be much more excited to train your skills and to learn and practice the skill you want to learn. I also know some people who do this kind of things, which is if they complete seven days a week as committing themselves to train their skill Single Day. So if they practice every single day for one week, they will reward themselves with something like they will buy themselves a book or a piece of cloth, or something like that or going to the cinema. So you need to associate your goal with the reward. And this will be one of the best tools that you will have in order to commit yourself to learn a new skill. Another way to commit yourself is to punish yourself and your brain again, associates punishment with pain.

And this punishment can work a little bit as the same way is the reward. So let's say each time you do not complete your goal, you do not work on improving your skill. You will not watch an episode of Game of Thrones or you will not go to the cinema. And this works really really well because you love Game of Thrones, right so if you'd Do not complete that goal. You can't watch Game of Thrones in for you that's a punishment and your brain see it as pain. Because you love watching Game of Thrones to walk.

So why are you not watching it? So it will see it as pain and it will avoid pain. And how does your brain can avoid the pain of not watching Game of Thrones? Well, if you work towards your goal, if you work to improve your skill, then you will able to watch episode an episode of Game of Thrones. So that's exactly how it works. And it's actually really, really simple.

And there's also another a method that I've never used. myself I've never committed exactly to this kind of software, but I know some people who do and it works amazingly with them, which is paying money each time you fail to accomplish your goals. So what you're going to do is you're going to associate a goal with money So let's say each time you do not practice your skill, you will lose $1 or $10 or $100, you are the one choosing the amount, but I highly recommend you to choose an amount of money that you are not comfortable to lose. If losing $1 doesn't make you really upset, then you need to choose a higher amount of money. So each time you do not complete your daily goal of practicing, you will, for example, lose $10. And if $10 don't mean much to you, maybe $20 or 50 or 100.

Of course, this depends on the way you feel about money and of course how much money you have. If I use this method, which I don't yet but I'm probably going to start with it. If I lose $10 each time I do not practice I'm telling you I would practice every single day because I wouldn't be able to send out And the cool thing is that there's an app called beeminder. And that app lets you create the goal. And then you can check in and tell the app that yes, you completed the goal this day or, or you didn't complete that day. And you really need to be honest with yourself, because if you did not complete your goal, you really need to go to the app and click on I did not complete the goal, right?

So we need to be very honest with you because the method won't work if you if you are not. And they will associate your credit card with your accounts. And each time you do not complete the goal, they will take the money. And this can be scary, but I'm pretty sure it can work amazingly. So I highly recommend you to do this.