How trustworthy are you? Do you think that people are able to trust in you easily? Or do you find yourself questioning others’ motives and wonder why they do the same with you? When you or someone else promises to follow-up, does it happen?
It would be easy to say that people aren’t trustworthy anymore and you just can’t count on others to do what they promise. Perhaps that is because you don’t keep promises to the most important person of all, yourself.
I’ve written about Promises before, yet I am picking it back up as it is so important to our growth. Every promise we make to ourselves and fail to keep diminishes our self-worth and confidence. We set ourselves back every time we do it.
Let’s start with the little things. It is Sunday afternoon and as you relax watching your sport of choice or playing with your children, you think, I am going to get up on time every day next week so that I have more time to relax and not just on the weekend. Monday morning rolls around and the alarm clock sounds. You quickly silence it and roll back over. You are just too tired and need that extra hour of sleep.
Reality check here! Do you think you are ever going to feel fully rested, energized and ready to leap out of bed early in the a.m.? Even if we do get the full 8 hours sleep as recommended, very few people (and I would like to meet those who do) want to leap out of bed early in the morning.
The message here is that we are never going to feel like doing what we need to do to keep a promise to ourselves. Hey, I am the only one that knows about this promise. Who does it hurt if I don’t keep it? It hurts the most important person and that is you. Every broken promise is a dig on your self-esteem. If you can’t trust yourself to get out of bed on time in the morning, then who can you trust?