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tigreetsa -> The Six Commitments of WIITWD (5/27/2010 7:18:56 PM)
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The first commitment is to your health, and thus to the best of your abilities and your circumstances maintaining the best of your physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual health and wellbeing. Your health is perhaps the most important aspect of your life, as it affects directly your ability to live. It's also vitally important in WIITWD, because if you cannot show that you can take adequate care of your own health - given your age, circumstances and abilities - nobody is going to entrust you with taking care of them.
The second commitment is to be connected with people, to be able to relate to other people and understand them, and to communicate in a way where they can understand you. This involves not judging people until you have put yourself in their shoes and seen things from their perspective. The idea here is to see yourself in other people and to see others within yourself. Being connected with other people isn't just having a profile up on Collarme or Fetlife, it doesn't mean being especially well-known or popular, but it means having a network of people both in real time and online with whom you interact.
The third commitment is to understand that your thoughts and your feelings have an effect on your speech, actions and behaviour and that your emotional, psychological and spiritual development is just as important as your physical development and wellbeing. What is inside your head and your heart is projected outwards, and comes through all what you say, all what you express and all what you do in emotional cues and signals which other people pick up on.
The fourth commitment is to understand that the true nature of a person doesn't lie in their appearance, social position or even their words, but within their inner nature and soul. This goes back to being connected with other people and not being too quick to make judgments, and it also involves finding that balance between the demands of your inner nature and soul and those of others and the outside world.
The fifth commitment is one to stand by your decisions and objectives once made, even in the face of daunting adversity and opposition, and to follow through on your decisions and commitments once made until either they become reality or you discover and admit that you were wrong. This involves keeping control of your own mind and holding out for what you really want, rather than submitting to what you perceive everyone else wants, and to holding yourself responsible for all what you say, do and think. This involves learning to cope with and handle rejection and failure, disappointments, things not turning out as you expect, and instead of blaming others, this website and people in general take it as an opportunity to learn, to grow and to develop.
The sixth and final commitment is to being open and positive towards people and the world around you, to be an active participant in a community, and to take part in, share and give to others that sense of a community. The basic principle of WIITWD is that you give of yourself before you can receive and this is generally the master key which unlocks and opens the many doors you will come across in WIITWD.
Thoughts? Comments?
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