A business owner this week reminded me that we’d had lunch at a local cafeteria about a year ago, and that he’d been desperate…..less than 30 days from financial ruin. He’d said to me “I may lose it all, the house, the cars, everything, but regardless I’m all in.”

All in. As in, “Committed.” As in, “Ain’t no turnin’ back.” As in, “Run those ships up on the beach and burn them, we’re not sailing back to Europe.”

I’m reminded that Columbus would have never discovered the new world if he could have gotten off the ship in the middle of the storms. Like it or not, he was “all in.”

How “all in” are you? Are you committed, or just contributing? You’ve heard that old joke about the chicken and the pig discussing the farmer’s breakfast of ham and eggs haven’t you? For the chicken it was just a contribution, but for the pig it was a commitment.

As you analyze your performance in life, is it what you want it to be. Do you only having a toe in the water or are you fully immersed? Are you committed, or are you just pretending?

What fear keeps you from being all in?

Where do you want to be a year from now? Can you get there with your present level of commitment?

Fast forward a year with my business owner friend. He told me this week how grateful he was for all that was going on in his life. His personal income had grown to almost six figures……..A MONTH!………..he’d paid off all his personal debt and had several months of living expenses in the bank in CASH. He said “You know, I’m not a quitter. It never would have happened if I hadn’t been ‘all in’.”

Wow!