Something to sleep on.. Read this before you go to sleep.. Thank you Bill Phillips The Power of Honoring Self-Promises When you begin a Transformation Challenge and set important health and fitness goals, you must promise yourself you will finish what you start, no matter what. That vow, although it might be easy to break, is by far one of the most important ones to honor. You see, the very essence of confidence is self-trust. If you’ve developed a pattern of not honoring self-promises, this is a great time to make a change. If you can’t honor, trust, and depend on your own word, well… that may be the root of a lot of the challenges in your life — a lot more than you realize. Most people have a very hard time answering the simple question, “Do I keep my word to myself?” Or, I should say, they have a hard time answering it honestly. The thing about lying to ourselves is we never, ever get away with it. On the surface, we may fool our minds into ignoring or not admitting what we’re doing, but deep down, in the place where all truth resides for each of us, in the place where we know and see ourselves as we really are — in that place, we are causing pain and damage every time we are not totally honest with ourselves. For example, when you know darn well, deep down inside, that you should be doing something and you’re not, like exercising regularly, like eating right, like starting and finishing a 12-week transformation plan, you’re lying to yourself. Do it often enough, and your self-trust — your confidence — will fade away. Into that emptiness will seep uncertainty, anxiety, stress, and sometimes anger. It doesn’t have to be like that though. No matter how long it has been like that, it doesn’t have to stay that way. Contrary to what many people think, it’s a lot easier to keep the promises we make to ourselves than it is to break them. Keeping those promises unleashes enormous energy and potential. That potential emptiness created by self-deception will become filled with strength, certainty — and yes, confidence — if you honor self-promises. (We’ve all heard the phrase, “The truth shall set you free.” Well, nowhere is that more true than when we apply it to our relationship with ourselves.) When you set health and fitness goals, you must promise yourself you will finish and not quit, no matter what adversity gets in your way. Never, ever give up! Make your promise to yourself upfront, that you will keep going and remind yourself of that promise every day. This is not something to take lightly. This promise must be treated as earnestly as a vow you make to your spouse. Or to your child. Or to your boss or coach. Approach it with that feeling, and you will keep it. And when you succeed, you will feel the transformation inside even more than others see it on the outside. That, by the way, is a promise. ~Bill Phillips
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 02:22:09 +0000
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