Promises: Making & Breaking them
How often to you make a commitment to yourself one day only to find yourself half way through a container of Ben & Jerry's, a bottle of wine, your pay check, etc? Why are some promises easier to keep and others bring up every ounce of resistance our psyche can find or create? From my experience, it's the things that will have the most profound difference on my life that are the hardest and yet the easiest on some level if I'm truly ready and it's actually the right time in my life to uproot the weed. I think it's easier to start with small commitments that have less of an extreme effect because that way if we aren't perfect ( and who is especially at the beginning ), the result isn't traumatic. What I mean is that it isn't going to make a huge difference if you break your personal promise a few times. Granted everything we do has an effect and even small things can add up over time if gone uncheck. I find that when we are ready for a change th...