How many times have you made a promise to yourself and not kept it?

You and I often make promises to others and are meticulous about keeping them – doing what we promised to do.

But when we make promises to ourselves its often ‘different’. It’s much easier to find reasons (excuses) for not doing what we promise ourselves – or ‘putting it off – procrastinating.

Why do we do this?

Why do we ‘cheat on ourselves’?

Why when we’ve ‘decided’ to be, do or have something do we ‘cop out’, not follow through and take the action we already know we need to take to fulfil the ‘promise’?

Here’s the thing – I really don’t know the answer to these questions – unless of course it’s another case of ‘42’ – whatever you want it to be or whatever excuse you or I can come up with to justify not fulfilling our promises to ourselves – even though we may be really committed to fulfilling promises we’ve made to others.

I’ve said I don’t know the answer to this, but I do – but only as it applies to me personally, and each broken promise has a slightly different ‘answer’. I have no idea how it applies to you – what your reasons are.

What I do know though is every time you or I break a promise to ourselves, cheat on ourselves, and fail to do something or other we needed or wanted to do, we ‘think’ we have a ‘reason’.

How can you and I ‘fix’ this? Well, I do have an answer, and it’s about ‘faith’. Not faith in a religion or some external entity (although this can help) but faith in ourselves.

It all depends, when we’re thinking about keeping promises to ourselves, how much faith we have in ourselves.

How I can help is to help you build that faith. Just ask me how.