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Promises, Promises… [Wow! It’s Wednesday!]
On Monday I decided to start keeping every promise I made from now on. I decided this, because I’ve been overextending myself as of late and I figured that actually having to follow through with everything I promised to do would be a great way to break myself of that habit. Also, I’m a huge fan of folks who do what they say they’re going to do when they say they’re going to do it. I would very much like to join their ranks.
Then I proceeded to have a not-so-great Tuesday, leaving over so little time that I now don’t have time to write my W!IW! blogumn. Yet, it feels good to say I can’t do this, because I’m going to do that. I’m a bit ashamed that it’s taken me until my almost-mid-thirties to commit to my word this way.
But how about you? How are you with promises? Do you try to keep them? Flake out more than you like? Do you consider your word your bond? Sound off in the comments!
In any case, if I make you a promise from now on in, I expect you to hold me to it. And if I try to wiggle out of it, remind me that I wrote this.
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I usually do follow through eventually, but I have been having a hard time with the timing. I tend to tell people I’ll have something done pretty soon to give myself a push, but lately I keep missing those self-imposed deadlines. I then disappoint the other person, when if I’d given them a more realistic deadline it all might have been fine (or maybe I would still have missed the deadline?).