When we fulfill the promises we make to ourselves we boost our self-confidence as each promise we keep is a victory for ourselves and these victories add up over time as we know we are a person who keeps our word.

Being able to trust ourselves that we'll keep the promise we made to ourselves is vital for our growth and success because it gives us an unmatched confidence in ourselves that we are capable of accomplishing whatever we desire.

On the other hand, when we break promises to ourselves and break them consistently, this wreaks havoc on our lives and has detrimental effects on our psyche, as it destroys our self-confidence, robs us of our energy, and causes us to perceive ourselves as liars.

If every kept promise is like a victory then every broken promise is a defeat and the more defeats that pile up the more we will perceive ourselves as losers who are victims of our circumstances, incapable of changing.

This perception couldn't be farther from the truth though! Just because you've been awful at keeping promises to yourself thus far doesn't mean you can't start changing that from here on out.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping the promises we make to others, yet struggle when it comes to keeping the promises we make to ourselves.

Why is this though?

Simply put we just value others and what they think about us more than we care about ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

We want other people to know how much we care about them and by no means want someone else to think that we're not someone who honors their word because that would harm our valuable reputation.

I'm all for keeping our word to others and valuing other people but we need to value ourselves and the promises we make to ourselves even more.

Besides not valuing ourselves enough another reason we struggle to keep promises to ourselves is that we make way too many, especially at one time. Just think about all the promises we make (or should I say break) every new year.

On top of this, we also tend to make big promises to ourselves without developing any kind of plan to keep this promise. We can't just promise ourselves we're going to get healthy without developing a plan to do so and then promising to abide by each step of that plan.

So if keeping promises to ourselves is so important than how do we go about doing this?

Here's a strategy to keep our promises to ourselves:

1. Decide that you are valuable and important and deserve to be treated as such

2. Write down your goals and dreams, WHY you want these things and what promises must be kept to achieve them

3. Focus on the ONE promise that is most vital RIGHT NOW

4. Develop an action plan for how you will consistently keep this promise to yourself

5. Once confident enough that you can continually keep this promise go down the list to the next most vital promise.

Continually repeat this process and we'll begin to get better and better at keeping promises. This will allow us to start making and fulfilling even greater promises as we are now more capable and can trust ourselves we'll get done whatever we vow to ourselves we want to be done.

TODAY MAKE A PROMISE TO YOURSELF THAT YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP!!!

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