The Business of Words and Actions

Commitment–it’s some combination of actions and words, words and actions. And whether it’s a simple commitment–resolving to write every day–or something more complicated–committing to work less for the sake of your family–the formula for follow through is the same: say what you mean, and do what you say.

It is a world of diluted words, of easy words. We throw them around like packing peanuts, like mass mailers, like monopoly money. We forget that words matter, that they obligate action. And o...