Good morning, good day, good evening, wherever in the world you are, this is David Sammel.
Why do resolutions fail? Well simply put, the people that we can let down the most, or the person we can let down the most is ourselves because we are not accountable, other than to ourselves unless we tell other people, what we're planning.

One of the key areas that we can improve is to learn how to trust ourselves, and therefore, do not over promise ourselves what we're going to do. Start off under promising and delivering, so you can develop trust in yourself, by doing what you say you're going to do. Would you trust someone who rarely did what they promised?
Clearly not so I challenge you to hold yourself to the same standards you expect of others.

For instance, if you say, I'm going to run every morning, and you know, damn, well, when you say it, that there's no chance that you'll run every morning, don't Promise yourself that you're going to do that. Rather say, I'm going to run once a week. And when you start achieving that, and you need to achieve that repeatedly, after maybe three or four weeks or so you will be ready to say, I'm ready to commit to twice a week. Slowly build trust in yourself by delivering what you say you're going to deliver.

Think about it. How can other people really trust in you if you don't trust yourself?
This is one of the areas in life that is often missed, because it's easy to forget that we've said we're going to do this and that to ourselves and not delivered. It's also one of the reasons why we think we can do more than we actually can with the time available. So, we say, okay, I'm going to finish this project by the end of the week, because it's going to take six hours and I can easily fit that in. And the reality is you probably can double that to 12 hours, and there's no chance you're going to fit it in in a week. So, try to be realistic and say okay, even if I think it's going to be six hours, I'm going to deliver it in two weeks.

I hope this makes sense because it's one of the things that really does improve the quality of your life. When you know 80 or 90% of the time you deliver for yourself what you say you're going to do.

I've noticed with athletes, that when they start to stick to their routines, which I spoke about last week, and do them consistently that after time, when they totally buy in and realise how impactful consistent routines are, that's when things really start to change for them in a competitive arena. That consistency and that trust in themselves to deliver somehow shows in crisis and under pressure, where they need to deliver some bravery and because they've delivered consistently on their routines, it is far easier for them to do so in a competitive situation, what they really know what they must do and have to do.

This trust that they've asked of themselves to do it. bears fruit in those moments.

I hope I'm making sense. If I'm not, I apologise but take care and speak again next week.

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