I’m what you’d call a follow-through girl.
If I say I’m gonna be somewhere, I’m there, and I’m on time.
If I say I’m gonna do something, I do it.
This weekend I was reminded that not everyone follows through the way I do.
Yet I always expect people to follow through, because it’s what I do. It catches me off guard the first time someone doesn’t do what they say they’re gonna do, or be where they say they’re gonna be.
It also reminds me of how easily people break their word these days.
And it definitely reminds me of how often people break their word to themselves.
See, a big chunk of succeeding at anything is just showing up.
Show up for coaching calls to ask questions and support others.
Show up for your self-care that you said was a priority.
Show up for your weight loss and good health (instead of weight gain and poor health).
When you get into this pattern of breaking your word to YOU, it takes a toll.
You trust yourself less and less.
And when you finally DO show up, you fizzle out sooner and sooner, because you’ve conditioned yourself give up on YOU.
It’s a nasty cycle that gets worse the more you stay stuck in it.
The thing is, breaking that cycle could not be more simple: You keep your word to YOU.
Like I said, SO simple.
But if you’re not keeping your word to you, especially in the areas that you say are a priority for you (like your weight loss and health), then part of you is talking you out of it…which means part of you is LYING to you.
It may not be with malicious intent, but malicious or not, the result is the same: It tears you down.
You “commit,” fall away, “re-commit,” fall away, over and over.
You’re SO disappointed in yourself, and don’t understand why you keep screwing yourself over.
Freedom from this nasty cycle starts with KNOCKING OUT THE LIES part of you is telling YOU.
Be honest with yourself, okay?
YOU are the most important person in your life, and you deserve to be honest with YOU.
Especially because, if YOU won’t tell yourself the truth, who will?
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