Keeping The Promises You Make To Yourself

Here’s life hack. Keep the promises you make to yourself. This is a post for you and me. The fastest way to build or rebuild your self-confidence and self-trust is to keep your promises.

We are almost at the end of January and our resolutions and goals aren’t as shiny and new as the felt on Monday 5 January but here’s the thing, you get to fail, stop, pause, reset and try again.

We’re going to have another chatty post today.

Three Reasons To Keep Your Promises To Yourself

So I have three primary reasons or outcomes for keeping your promises that you make to yourself. We touched on the first one in the intro, it builds your self-esteem and confidence. Second: it propels you forward. Third: It helps you live the life you actually want and desire. Let’s take a closer took at each one.

1. Keeping the Promises You Make To Yourself Builds Your Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence. For whatever reason, life, rejections or abuse or misuse, you can lose your way and feels as if you need outside validation and praise to feels as if you are succeeding. But here is a life hack when you do what you tell yourself you are going to do, you slowly rebuild or create sense that you can in fact do whatever it is want. If you want to build your own business in 2026, and you take the time to create that business plan, the select your business name, register your business, those small steps leading launching are essential. Each time you do that single thing, you are signaling to yourself that you can rely on what you say you are going to do and you follow through.
2. Keeping Your Promises Propel You Forward. Each time you strike off a to-do list item, you are taking a small step forward. It doesn’t matter how micro that next step is but if you say you are going to do something then do it and you will feel as sense of accomplishment that builds momentum and snowballs. Let’s stick with idea of building your own business in 2026. So you create your business plan, select a name, register your company, get your tax registration completed, what might your next step be? Maybe involves buying the domain name for your virtual storefront or creating social media handles on your preferred platforms or launching your mailing list or waitlist so you can retarget leads when you launch. Each small steps brings you closer to your goal.
3. Keeping Your Promises Ensures You Are Living The Life You Want and Desire. Deep down we all know what our dream life looks and feels like. And if you haven’ sat down to consider what your dream life looks and feels like, I have a recommendation at the end of this article to help you. But here’s the thing, if you consistently do what you tell yourself you want to do or have or be or present to the work you are then actively showing up as the person you want to be and that means you are in fact living the life you dream up. But that takes slow and steady steps forward, small consistent and compounding habits and daily action that you have to keep building on and affirming.

I hope this helps you in some way, if your motivation slipped or you fell back into old habits and routines that you know deep down doesn’t help you.

And as I promised, if for whatever reason you haven’t taken the time (yet) to dream up what you want your dream life to look and feel like. I have some tips. These blog posts may be helpful:

The MJV Dream Life Vision Workbook: Free Download

Thanks for reading and I will see you soon.