The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.

Of all the people on planet earth, it's most critical that you believe you.

That when you commit, you show up, when you make plans, you follow through.

When you tell yourself you'll do something, you actually do it.

Here's what's interesting.

Being that this is, I believe, the North Star, and I'm consistently chasing down this

standard.

I'm trying to be better and better and better at following through, because I clearly

think we all should, but keeping promises to yourself is different than keeping promises

to others.

When you let other people down, especially those close to you, you feel the social repercussions.

And for human beings, negative social repercussions are painful.

We care greatly about our reputation.

Don't want to let others down.

Don't want to be known as the person who doesn't show up.

This incentive enough to push us towards following through with others.

But with yourself, where do the repercussions go?

What are the consequences?

You tell yourself today is the day I'm starting, beginning, trying something new.

And then you don't.

There's no phone call with someone on the other end saying, hey, where were you?

Hey, you promised.

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