4 Tips to Keep Promises to Yourself As You Build Your Home Business

Most people fail in life because they don't answer to themselves. Why is it that the easiest promises to break are the ones to ourselves?

I used to break promises to myself, I do not do that anymore. Here are 4 strategies that I use to keep my most important promises, the promises to me...

1) Small Promises
2) Constantly Learning
3) Accountability
4) Only Promise Things I Know I Will Achieve, now this may sound like I am taking the easy road and not challenging myself but I have the big dream and goal and all the little promises are the steps that take me there.

1) When making only small promises to myself they are much less stressful because they are not such a big task. When you make the small promises to yourself they are the steps that you can accomplish quickly and easily, plus you have a greater chance of success. An example when I first started to write on a regular basis I was not very consistent. I realized in order to be successful consistency was necessary. I found a time of the day where I am at my writing best and told myself only 15 minutes per day. That promise was much easier to keep that sitting down and attempting to write the entire article all at once.

2) When you are constantly learning, tasks/projects become easier because you have more knowledge and skill. The result being to keep those promises much more easily.

3) Being accountable is huge! Be sure that someone knows the promises you make to yourself. As a matter of fact my husband just came over to make sure I was accomplishing my 15 minutes of writing and had not opened my email. Find an accountability partner it could be anyone you trust; family, friend, co-worker or coach.

4) Making promises to yourself for the tasks that you know you can achieve will give you more confidence to go ahead and keep them happen. You have been learning new skills, you can do it and you know you can. Remember it does not have to be perfect the first time. Allow yourself the time to develop the new skill. A big behavior change is that don't hold grudges against yourself. You can do this too. Celebrate the small victories! You may not get the exact results you originally went for but you did it and you know if necessary you can do better next time.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build, end up building us. - Jim Rohn, Motivational Speaker

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