Commit

How will I make daily progress?

Time:Set the timer to 10 minutes for the Commit section.

Practice:Choose your action partner. Decide when and how you will contact each other.

Action partner’s name

Contact information

Read each commitment aloud to your action partner. Promise to keep your commitments! Sign below.

MY COMMITMENTS
I will keep separate records for business and personal money.
I will pay myself a wage or commission regularly and keep that personal money in a separate location or account from my business money.
I will prepare a 3-minute presentation on my business.
I will achieve my weekly business goal:
I will practice today’s My Foundation principle and teach it to my family.
I will add to my savings—even a coin or two.
I will report to my action partner.

My signature

Action partner’s signature

How will I report my progress?

Practice:Before the next meeting, use this commitment chart to record your progress. In the boxes below, write “Yes,” “No,” or the number of times you kept the commitment.

Kept separate records (Yes/No)	Paid myself a wage separate from business money (Yes/No)	Prepared my business presentation (Yes/No)	Achieved weekly business goal (Yes/No)	Practiced Foundation principle and taught it to family (Yes/No)	Added to savings (Yes/No)	Reported to action partner (Yes/No)

Read:In our next meeting, we will do our self-reliance assessments again to see if we are becoming more self-reliant. We will need to bring our My Path to Self-Reliance booklets.

Read:Choose someone to facilitate the My Foundation topic next week. (Don’t know how to facilitate a My Foundation topic? Read page 11 and the inside front cover.)

Ask someone to offer a closing prayer.

Feedback Welcome

Please send your ideas, feedback, suggestions, and experiences to [e-mail].

Note to Facilitator:

Next week, bring five extra copies of My Path to Self-Reliance.