There’s a romanticized idea about growth that hinders more than it helps: that it depends on constant inspiration.
In practice, growing requires much less inspiration and much more commitment.
Inspiration is fleeting. It appears at specific moments, drives initial decisions, and even helps to get started. But it doesn’t sustain the process.
Those who base their own evolution on being inspired end up progressing unevenly, alternating peaks of effort with long periods of stagnation.
Commitment is different. Commitment doesn’t depend on how you feel on any given day.
It exists even when the scenario is unfavorable, when fatigue sets in, and when recognition doesn’t come.
It’s what guarantees continuity when enthusiasm disappears.
In the market, few people fail due to a lack of good ideas. Most fail because they don’t sustain execution over time.
Growing professionally, leading teams, or building a business requires showing up every day to do what needs to be done, not just when you feel like it.
There’s also a dangerous confusion between inspiration and direction. Inspiration may point the way, but it’s commitment that keeps the course.
Without it, any difficulty becomes a reason to change plans, switch projects, or abandon processes before they mature.
Commitment requires taking responsibility for one’s own development. It means studying even when there’s no external pressure.
It means maintaining standards even when no one is watching. It means respecting the process, even if the result takes longer than expected.
Another essential point is understanding that real growth is cumulative.
Small actions repeated with discipline generate almost invisible advances in the short term, but extremely relevant in the long term.
Those who expect great leaps inspired by something often ignore the power of this accumulation.
Growing also involves letting go. Letting go of distractions, easy shortcuts, and the constant need for validation.
Commitment to the long term almost always conflicts with immediate comfort. And it is in this conflict that many give up.
In the end, growth is not an event. It’s a process. And processes don’t survive on inspiration alone. They survive on daily commitment to doing the basics well.
Those who understand this stop seeking external motivation and begin to build internal consistency.
And it is precisely this exchange that separates those who admire growth from those who actually live it.
